A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of WarFrom the author of the highly acclaimed Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her, a radical rethinking of the nature of war and gender and the illuminating interplay between private suffering and public tragedy. Griffin uses diaries, art, literature, psychology, and historical documents to illustrate the unexpectedly broad range of causes and effects of war. |
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... grandfather's face bears an ex- pression of grief just as if he were looking over a scene of senseless destruction ... grandfather . I had never liked him . By the time I was born , he was a different man than the one whom this ...
... grandfather's face bears an ex- pression of grief just as if he were looking over a scene of senseless destruction ... grandfather . I had never liked him . By the time I was born , he was a different man than the one whom this ...
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... grandfather . In my mind , I had only one grandfather , whose name was Ernest , and he was my mother's father . In a strange unspoken manner , this made my father seem orphaned to me , as if his parentage were remote and shadowy , and ...
... grandfather . In my mind , I had only one grandfather , whose name was Ernest , and he was my mother's father . In a strange unspoken manner , this made my father seem orphaned to me , as if his parentage were remote and shadowy , and ...
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... grandfather beat my grandfather , and lec- tured him , drunkenly , humiliating and shaming him . I am told that as adults they quarreled violently over politics . No one in my family can remember the substance of the disagreement , only ...
... grandfather beat my grandfather , and lec- tured him , drunkenly , humiliating and shaming him . I am told that as adults they quarreled violently over politics . No one in my family can remember the substance of the disagreement , only ...
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