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Some Instructions to My Wife
Stanley Crawford
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Paperback. Num Pages: 178 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
From "Putting Things Away" to "The Marriage Almanac" (not to mention the pedantic "Index," in itself a comic wonder), Stanley Crawford gives the married, the unmarried, and the formerly married a classic satire on all the sanctimonious marriage manuals ever produced. Starting with the complete title, "Some Instructions to My Wife Concerning the Upkeep of the House and Marriage, and to My Son and Daughter Concerning the Conduct of Their Childhood," a boorish narrator sets down some seventy-three pieces of advice to his wife, young son, and two-year-old daughter, intended to foster and maintain domestic tranquility in an age of ... Read more
From "Putting Things Away" to "The Marriage Almanac" (not to mention the pedantic "Index," in itself a comic wonder), Stanley Crawford gives the married, the unmarried, and the formerly married a classic satire on all the sanctimonious marriage manuals ever produced. Starting with the complete title, "Some Instructions to My Wife Concerning the Upkeep of the House and Marriage, and to My Son and Daughter Concerning the Conduct of Their Childhood," a boorish narrator sets down some seventy-three pieces of advice to his wife, young son, and two-year-old daughter, intended to foster and maintain domestic tranquility in an age of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
Number of Pages
178
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9780916583156
SKU
V9780916583156
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Stanley Crawford
Stanley Crawford has written and farmed with his wife Rosemary in Northern New Mexico since 1969. He is the author of five novels and three works of nonfiction and has been the recipient of two NEA writing fellowships and a three year Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writing Award. Recently he has taught at Colorado College and with the UMass/Amherst MFA ... Read more
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