Nancy Mairs, Author . Beacon $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8070-6248-7
In her latest book of essays (Waist-High in the World; Carnal Acts; etc.), Mairs, who has written extensively about being disabled by multiple sclerosis, examines death. "Death makes us who we are," she asserts, setting the thematic tone for
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Nancy Mairs, Author . Beacon $23.95 (142p) ISBN 978-0-8070-7732-0
Mairs is an extraordinary woman. The acclaimed author of the spiritual autobiography Ordinary Time
suffers from multiple sclerosis, yet is able to write with passion about a God that others in her position would have walked away from a long time...
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Nancy Mairs, Author University of Arizona Press $27.95 (154p) ISBN 978-0-8165-0892-1
Five essays in Mairs's collection have been previously published in magazines. The other seven are originals that will speak clearly to the hearts of women in ambiguous positions as society dictates changes in traditional roles. A wife and the...
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Nancy Mairs, Author Beacon Press (MA) $15 (166p) ISBN 978-0-8070-6006-3
Critically acclaimed essayist Mairs ( Ordinary Times ) recounts the history of her development as a writer in a memoir that even those who are weary of the ``what being a writer means to me'' genre will find stimulating and insightful. Mairs's use...
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Nancy Mairs, Author HarperCollins Publishers $17.95 (273p) ISBN 978-0-06-016041-8
Now in her mid-40s, Mairs, an essayist and poet, recalls the past in lyrical descriptions of her home and loving kin in New England, as well as the house in Arizona where she settled later with her husband and children. But readers may not get far...
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Nancy Mairs, Author Beacon Press (MA) $20 (238p) ISBN 978-0-8070-7056-7
The ``uneasy and unrelenting state of religious faith'' which, according to Mairs, has marked the ``whole of my conscious life,'' is explored with elan in this spiritual autobiography that generates sparks about many issues. As a Catholic feminist (a
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Nancy Mairs, Author Beacon Press (MA) $20 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8070-7086-4
Mairs (Ordinary Time) is a writer of heightened sensibility not entirely attributable to the years she has spent wheelchair-bound because of advancing multiple sclerosis. From her viewpoint, approximately at the level of other people's navels, she...
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