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- catalog abstract "In 1959, when Sandra Scofield was fifteen, she came home to stay in West Texas after years in Catholic boarding schools. She believed her presence would inspire her invalid mother to live. What she found--a fractured family; a distracted, dying mother--nudged her into the tumult of late adolescence and the awakening of her sexuality. More than forty years later, Scofield looks back on her Catholic girlhood and the ways in which her relationship with her mother was grounded in their intertwined aspirations for holiness, achievement, and love. Writing on the brink of old age, she looks back ruefully but without bitterness, forgiving both her mother's frailty and her own.--From publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b13090148.
- catalog coverage "Texas Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "Texas, West Biography.".
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description "In 1959, when Sandra Scofield was fifteen, she came home to stay in West Texas after years in Catholic boarding schools. She believed her presence would inspire her invalid mother to live. What she found--a fractured family; a distracted, dying mother--nudged her into the tumult of late adolescence and the awakening of her sexuality. More than forty years later, Scofield looks back on her Catholic girlhood and the ways in which her relationship with her mother was grounded in their intertwined aspirations for holiness, achievement, and love. Writing on the brink of old age, she looks back ruefully but without bitterness, forgiving both her mother's frailty and her own.--From publisher description.".
- catalog extent "256 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0393057356 (hardcover)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Norton,".
- catalog spatial "Texas Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "Texas, West Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Texas, West.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 B 22".
- catalog subject "Catholics Texas, West.".
- catalog subject "Mothers and daughters Texas, West.".
- catalog subject "Novelists, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Novelists, American 20th century Family relationships.".
- catalog subject "Novelists, American Homes and haunts Texas, West.".
- catalog subject "PS3569.C584 Z477 2004".
- catalog subject "Scofield, Sandra Jean, 1943- Childhood and youth.".
- catalog subject "Scofield, Sandra Jean, 1943- Homes and haunts Texas, West.".
- catalog subject "Teenage girls Texas, West.".
- catalog subject "Terminally ill parents Texas, West.".
- catalog title "Occasions of sin : a memoir / by Sandra Scofield.".
- catalog type "text".