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Flight of the Wild Swan
Taschenbuch von Melissa Pritchard
Sprache: Englisch

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"Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend. From her adolescence, Nightingale was determined to fulfill her life's calling to serve the sick and suffering. Overcoming Victorian hierarchies, familial expectation, patriarchal resistance, and her own illness, she used her hard-won celebrity as a battlefield nurse to bring the profession out of its shadowy, disreputable status and elevate nursing to a skilled practice and compassionate art. In lush, lyrical detail, Melissa Pritchard reveals Nightingale as a rebel who wouldn't relent-one whose extraordinary life offers a grand lesson in inspired will"--
"Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend. From her adolescence, Nightingale was determined to fulfill her life's calling to serve the sick and suffering. Overcoming Victorian hierarchies, familial expectation, patriarchal resistance, and her own illness, she used her hard-won celebrity as a battlefield nurse to bring the profession out of its shadowy, disreputable status and elevate nursing to a skilled practice and compassionate art. In lush, lyrical detail, Melissa Pritchard reveals Nightingale as a rebel who wouldn't relent-one whose extraordinary life offers a grand lesson in inspired will"--
Über den Autor

Melissa Pritchard is the author of twelve books, including the novels Flight of the Wild Swan and Palmerino, the short story collection The Odditorium, and the essay collection A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write. Among other honors, she has received the Flannery O’Connor Award, Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and Carl Sandburg Literary Award as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Carson McCullers Center. Emeritus Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Arizona State University, she is the fiction editor for Image journal and lives in Columbus, Georgia.

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Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 416
ISBN-13: 9781954276215
ISBN-10: 1954276214
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pritchard, Melissa
Hersteller: Bellevue Literary Press
Maße: 208 x 140 x 28 mm
Von/Mit: Melissa Pritchard
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.03.2024
Gewicht: 0,476 kg
preigu-id: 126515780
Über den Autor

Melissa Pritchard is the author of twelve books, including the novels Flight of the Wild Swan and Palmerino, the short story collection The Odditorium, and the essay collection A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write. Among other honors, she has received the Flannery O’Connor Award, Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and Carl Sandburg Literary Award as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Carson McCullers Center. Emeritus Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Arizona State University, she is the fiction editor for Image journal and lives in Columbus, Georgia.

Details
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 416
ISBN-13: 9781954276215
ISBN-10: 1954276214
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pritchard, Melissa
Hersteller: Bellevue Literary Press
Maße: 208 x 140 x 28 mm
Von/Mit: Melissa Pritchard
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.03.2024
Gewicht: 0,476 kg
preigu-id: 126515780
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