The room lit by roses

a journal of pregnancy and birth

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Author

Carole Maso

Publication

2000 - Counterpoint, Washington, D.C, District of Columbia

Language

English

Word Count

44,500 words, Guess

Page Count

178 pages

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL6785209M
ISBN-101582430888
OCLC Control Number43903678
OCLC Control Numberroomlitbyrosesjo00maso
Library of Congress Control Number00038423

and 2 more

LibraryThing1038799
Goodreads1483693

Classifications

DDC813/.54
LCCPS3563.A786 Z47 2000
DDCB

Description

From one of our most daring writers comes this intimate and seductive book: a working journal of pregnancy that was both a Lambda Literary Awards finalist and a Village Voice pick for Best Books of 2000.

First Sentence

FOR A LONG TIME I HAD wanted a child, but the desire, attenuated, had passed, and other feelings had taken its place.

Description

"The Room Lit by Roses chronicles the months of Maso's pregnancy, from its charmed conception through the auspicious arrival of Rose, the daughter born to Maso and her partner, Helen.". ""It's lovely to be in this gorgeous fog carrying all this miraculousness inside," Maso writes, and it is from this place of miracle and memory, hope and dream that the journal unfolds, providing a luminous window onto one of the most mysterious and profound stations of the human journey. The Room Lit by Roses is a book of becoming, a poignant record of the progress of two souls in transit."--BOOK JACKET.