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Jo Sinclair
"A story of the dailiness of two women's lives, The Seasons is
thick with fragile rhythmsof gardens and conversations, work and
love. Jo Sinclair's cross-class memoir is a working-class Kaddish,
a mournful praise song, not of loss, but of the courage of honest
continuation." Janet Zandy, editor of Calling Home: Working Class
Women's Writings
"Jo Sinclair's The Seasons tells us much about the writing life,
the mental and material processes involved in being a writer, as
well as embodying and reflecting on its own successive
transformations from the journal record to the final art of
autobiographical text. In its testimony to friendship, it is also
an expression of biography as autobiography. Detailing her friend's
illness and death, Sinclair offers a scrupulously detailed record
of the body in pain. At the same time, she transcribes her own
agony and witnesses too the redemptive powers of nature and art."
Barbara Shollar, editor of Longman Anthology of World Literature
by Women, 1875-1975
"Jo Sinclair's memoir is a powerful, moving, carefully woven, and
important work. It is a book for and about Helen Buchman, the woman
who provided water, light, and nutrients for the seeds of a young
woman to grow into a writer and a soul. This is also the story of
Ruth Seid-Jo Sinclair who was that young woman and of the
relationship between Helen and Jo. It is, moreover, and perhaps
essentially, a book about gardeningliteral and metaphoricand the
seasons of nature and of life." Nancy Porter, former editor of
Women's Studies Quarterly
"A story of the dailiness of two women's lives, The Seasons is
thick with fragile rhythms—of gardens and conversations, work and
love. Jo Sinclair's cross-class memoir is a working-class Kaddish,
a mournful praise song, not of loss, but of the courage of honest
continuation." —Janet Zandy, editor of Calling Home: Working Class
Women's Writings
"Jo Sinclair's The Seasons tells us much about the writing life,
the mental and material processes involved in being a writer, as
well as embodying and reflecting on its own successive
transformations from the journal record to the final art of
autobiographical text. In its testimony to friendship, it is also
an expression of biography as autobiography. Detailing her friend's
illness and death, Sinclair offers a scrupulously detailed record
of the body in pain. At the same time, she transcribes her own
agony and witnesses too the redemptive powers of nature and art."
—Barbara Shollar, editor of Longman Anthology of World Literature
by Women, 1875-1975
"Jo Sinclair's memoir is a powerful, moving, carefully woven, and
important work. It is a book for and about Helen Buchman, the woman
who provided water, light, and nutrients for the seeds of a young
woman to grow into a writer and a soul. This is also the story of
Ruth Seid-Jo Sinclair who was that young woman and of the
relationship between Helen and Jo. It is, moreover, and perhaps
essentially, a book about gardening—literal and metaphoric—and the
seasons of nature and of life." —Nancy Porter, former editor of
Women's Studies Quarterly
Sinclair is the pseudonym of Ruth Seid, born in 1913 to Russian Jewish immigrant parents. The Seasons is the story of her friendship with Helen Buchman, who takes Ruth in, nurtures her, and encourages her writing during the 1940s and 1950s. When Helen dies in 1963, Ruth struggles to rebuild her life and her writing career. Most of this book takes the form of a journal, written as a sort of catharsis, which recounts daily events around the time of Helen's death. Ruth's intense need to write is vividly described, as well as her personal journey from the Jewish ghetto to middle-class life in the country outside Cleveland. Recommended for larger public and academic libraries.-- Gwen Gregory, U.S. Courts Lib., Phoenix
"A story of the dailiness of two women's lives, The Seasons is
thick with fragile rhythms of gardens and conversations, work and
love. Jo Sinclair's cross-class memoir is a working-class Kaddish,
a mournful praise song, not of loss, but of the courage of honest
continuation." Janet Zandy, editor of Calling Home: Working Class
Women's Writings "Jo Sinclair's The Seasons tells us much about the
writing life, the mental and material processes involved in being a
writer, as well as embodying and reflecting on its own successive
transformations from the journal record to the final art of
autobiographical text. In its testimony to friendship, it is also
an expression of biography as autobiography. Detailing her friend's
illness and death, Sinclair offers a scrupulously detailed record
of the body in pain. At the same time, she transcribes her own
agony and witnesses too the redemptive powers of nature and art."
Barbara Shollar, editor of Longman Anthology of World Literature by
Women, 1875-1975 "Jo Sinclair's memoir is a powerful, moving,
carefully woven, and important work. It is a book for and about
Helen Buchman, the woman who provided water, light, and nutrients
for the seeds of a young woman to grow into a writer and a soul.
This is also the story of Ruth Seid-Jo Sinclair who was that young
woman and of the relationship between Helen and Jo. It is,
moreover, and perhaps essentially, a book about gardening literal
and metaphoric and the seasons of nature and of life." Nancy
Porter, former editor of Women's Studies Quarterly
"A story of the dailiness of two women's lives, The Seasons is
thick with fragile rhythms-of gardens and conversations, work and
love. Jo Sinclair's cross-class memoir is a working-class Kaddish,
a mournful praise song, not of loss, but of the courage of honest
continuation." -Janet Zandy, editor of Calling Home: Working Class
Women's Writings "Jo Sinclair's The Seasons tells us much about the
writing life, the mental and material processes involved in being a
writer, as well as embodying and reflecting on its own successive
transformations from the journal record to the final art of
autobiographical text. In its testimony to friendship, it is also
an expression of biography as autobiography. Detailing her friend's
illness and death, Sinclair offers a scrupulously detailed record
of the body in pain. At the same time, she transcribes her own
agony and witnesses too the redemptive powers of nature and art."
-Barbara Shollar, editor of Longman Anthology of World Literature
by Women, 1875-1975 "Jo Sinclair's memoir is a powerful, moving,
carefully woven, and important work. It is a book for and about
Helen Buchman, the woman who provided water, light, and nutrients
for the seeds of a young woman to grow into a writer and a soul.
This is also the story of Ruth Seid-Jo Sinclair who was that young
woman and of the relationship between Helen and Jo. It is,
moreover, and perhaps essentially, a book about gardening-literal
and metaphoric-and the seasons of nature and of life." -Nancy
Porter, former editor of Women's Studies Quarterly
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