Ebook Evaluate by Robert L. Seltzer
“MY MOTHER and me” by Thomas Hauser
“MY MOTHER and me” is a kind of books that can stick with you lengthy after you might have completed studying it.
The guide has a slim focus — the connection between a son and his mom. However there’s nothing slim or parochial within the method. Like all proficient writers, Thomas Hauser captures the common by portraying the particular.
A slender guide — solely 140 pages — the memoir isn’t any much less substantial for its brevity. The writing is evident and lucid with light flights of poetry that replicate the feelings that motivated the son to write down about his mom. She was a outstanding girl — robust, clever and fiercely dedicated to these much less lucky than her.
For all her sterling attributes, nonetheless, we might by no means have gotten to satisfy Eleanor Nordlinger Hauser — “Ellie,” to her pals — with no son who thought-about her life value documenting. He was proper, though this guide isn’t any hagiography. The creator provides a full portrait of his mom, flaws and all, and he or she emerges all of the extra admirable for the trustworthy depiction.
The guide represents the best partnership between story and story teller as a result of, for all her sterling qualities, it took a superb author to color an entire and vivid portrait of her. That the “good author” turned out to be her son provides an nearly heartbreaking poignancy to “MY MOTHER and me.”
In sentence after sentence, web page after web page, you learn prose that embodies the one best trait a author can possess. The prose compels you to maintain studying, however you don’t simply learn the phrases; you hear them, their rhythm and cadence guiding you from passage to passage. The cliché rings true with “MY MOTHER and Me” — you will be unable to place it down.
Robert L. Seltzer is a former recipient of the Nat Fleischer Award for Profession Excellence in Boxing Journalism and the creator of two books – “Amado Muro and Me” and “Thursday Night time on the Mall”.
