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The Resource Once We Were Sisters, (electronic resource)
Once We Were Sisters, (electronic resource)
Resource Information
The item Once We Were Sisters, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item Once We Were Sisters, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S BEST NEW BOOKS "A searing and intimate memoir about love turned deadly." ?The BBC "An intimate illumination of sisterhood and loss." ? People When Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister Maxine, only two years older, was killed when her husband drove them off a deserted road in Johannesburg. Stunned by the news, she immediately flew back to the country where she was born, determined to find answers and forced to reckon with his history of violence and the lingering effects of their most unusual childhood?one marked by death and the misguided love of their mother. In her signature spare and incisive prose, Sheila Kohler recounts the lives she and her sister led. Flashing back to their storybook childhood at the family estate, Crossways, Kohler tells of the death of her father when she and Maxine were girls, which led to the family abandoning their house and the girls being raised by their mother, at turns distant and suffocating. We follow them to the cloistered Anglican boarding school where they first learn of separation and later their studies in Rome and Paris where they plan grand lives for themselves?lives that are interrupted when both marry young and discover they have made poor choices. Kohler evokes the bond between sisters and shows how that bond changes but never breaks, even after death. "A beautiful and disturbing memoir of a beloved sister who died at the age of thirty-nine in circumstances that strongly suggest murder. . . . Highly recommended." ?Joyce Carol Oates
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Isbn
- 9781101993170
- Label
- Once We Were Sisters
- Title
- Once We Were Sisters
- Subject
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- Autobiographies
- Electronic books
- Kohler, Sheila -- Family
- Kohler, Sheila -- Travel
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Sisters -- South Africa -- Biography
- Sisters -- South Africa -- Death
- Authors, South African -- Biography
- Travel writing
- Women -- South Africa -- Biography
- Women authors, South African -- Biography
- South Africa -- History -- 1961-1994 -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S BEST NEW BOOKS "A searing and intimate memoir about love turned deadly." ?The BBC "An intimate illumination of sisterhood and loss." ? People When Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister Maxine, only two years older, was killed when her husband drove them off a deserted road in Johannesburg. Stunned by the news, she immediately flew back to the country where she was born, determined to find answers and forced to reckon with his history of violence and the lingering effects of their most unusual childhood?one marked by death and the misguided love of their mother. In her signature spare and incisive prose, Sheila Kohler recounts the lives she and her sister led. Flashing back to their storybook childhood at the family estate, Crossways, Kohler tells of the death of her father when she and Maxine were girls, which led to the family abandoning their house and the girls being raised by their mother, at turns distant and suffocating. We follow them to the cloistered Anglican boarding school where they first learn of separation and later their studies in Rome and Paris where they plan grand lives for themselves?lives that are interrupted when both marry young and discover they have made poor choices. Kohler evokes the bond between sisters and shows how that bond changes but never breaks, even after death. "A beautiful and disturbing memoir of a beloved sister who died at the age of thirty-nine in circumstances that strongly suggest murder. . . . Highly recommended." ?Joyce Carol Oates
- Cataloging source
- IDEBK
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kohler, Sheila
- Dewey number
- 828/.91403
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR9369.3.K64
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Kohler, Sheila
- Kohler, Sheila
- Women authors, South African
- Authors, South African
- Sisters
- Sisters
- Women
- South Africa
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- South Africa
- Label
- Once We Were Sisters, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn966362637
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781101993170
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- F411540C-6E35-4473-84BF-278688EE8C1B
- System control number
- (OCoLC)966362637
- Label
- Once We Were Sisters, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn966362637
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781101993170
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- F411540C-6E35-4473-84BF-278688EE8C1B
- System control number
- (OCoLC)966362637
Subject
- Autobiographies
- Electronic books
- Kohler, Sheila -- Family
- Kohler, Sheila -- Travel
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Sisters -- South Africa -- Biography
- Sisters -- South Africa -- Death
- Authors, South African -- Biography
- Travel writing
- Women -- South Africa -- Biography
- Women authors, South African -- Biography
- South Africa -- History -- 1961-1994 -- Biography
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