Ultimately, The Sum of Our Days offers a unique tour of this gifted writer’s inner world and of the relationships that have become essential to her life and her work. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, The Sum of Our Days is a portrait of a contemporary family bound together by the love, fierce loyalty, and the stubborn determination of a beloved, indomitable matriarch. · "The Sum of Our Days" is a comedy of character and of life. If we are to believe her - and I am determined to do so - her life is as rich and as wild as her fiction. Allende's candour about herself and her family is both shocking and delightful/5(). Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor and wisdom, The Sum of Our Days is a portrait of a contemporary family, tied together by the love, strong will, and stubborn determination of a beloved matriarch, the indomitable New York Times bestselling /5().
The Sum of Our Days takes up the story of Allende's life from the time of her daughter's death, and is likewise addressed to her. After her turbulent existence, she has now come to enjoy a. The Sum of Our Days. It's unfortunate that a memoir driven by a ferocious belief in the importance of family should leave the reader so relieved that Isabel Allende is not their mother-in-law. The. The Sum of Our Days. (9, ratings by Goodreads) Paperback. English. By (author) Isabel Allende. Share. A brilliant memoir from the celebrated Chilean novelist on friends, family and life in California, her adopted home. Isabel Allende has sold more than 50 million copies of her books worldwide. The most beloved and successful of her.
In this powerful memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her life after the death of her daughter, Paula. But The Sum of Our Days is not a tragedy; narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, it is a remarkable story of life that is as exuberant and passionate as Allende herself. Baring her soul, Allende reflects on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality and religion, infidelity, addiction, and memory—and tells poignant stories of the wildly eccentric. island beneath the sea. the sum of our days. inés of my soul. zorro. forest of the pygmies. kingdom of the golden dragon. my invented country. city of the beasts. portrait in sepia. Ultimately, The Sum of Our Days offers a unique tour of this gifted writer’s inner world and of the relationships that have become essential to her life and her work. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, The Sum of Our Days is a portrait of a contemporary family bound together by the love, fierce loyalty, and the stubborn determination of a beloved, indomitable matriarch.
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