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A son describes his efforts to re-create the life of his mother, who had died when he was an infant, nearly fifty years after her death, drawing on the memories of his ailing father and interviews with his mother's teachers, childhood friends, bridesmaids, and others. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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"Of Time and Memory reads like a mystery story and it is that suspense, coupled with Snyder's honest prose, that is most engaging."
--The New York Times Book Review
"A COMPELLING MEMOIR . . . WISE AND COMPASSIONATE."
--Biography Magazine
"EXTRAORDINARILY GRIPPING."
--Miami Herald
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new nothing about his mother aside from the terrible fact that she died at the age of nineteen, just sixteen days after giving birth to him and his twin brother. All his life Don had been too shy, too deeply pained to ask his father or grandparents to tell him the story of the lovely girl named Peggy Snyder--what delighted or troubled her, who her friends were, how she fell in love, what cut short her brief life.
But then, nearing his fiftieth birthday and compelled by his father's failing health, Snyder embarked on a quest to find his mother. He traveled many times from his home in Maine down to his mother's small Pennsylvania town to trace her childhood and adolescence. He tracked down Peggy's high school friends, spent time with her teachers, probed the memories of the girls--now elderly women-- who had been her bridesmaids. Detail by detail, Don pieced together the harrowing story of Peggy's final year--her passionate love affair with her husband, the unexpected pregnancy, the sudden
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