Mother's Day or the View from in Here

by Barbara Holland

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385149859
• ISBN13: 9780385149853
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great Find!

Just found this author while searching in vain for another Erma Bombeck book at the library. I had never heard of Barbara Holland and was pleasantly surprised to find an author who captures the spirit of motherhood and housewifery so completely. She is such a good writer! I found myself sobbing at the death of "Boy", her constant companion. I guess motherhood is universal, the feeling of the world going on without you, the fact that a mother's work is really never done!! Read it, you'll love it!

She's been looking over my shoulder---

This was the first of Holland's books that I read, and it caused me to search out several more of hers. She has the ability that only the best writers have, to put into words emotions that we've all had, but better and clearer. To use a teeny-bopper expression, "Yeah! What SHE said!" Never superficial, her books can also move you to tears at times. Just a fine writer, when you agree with her, AND when you don't.

Boy, can she write!

Barbara Holland's book, "Mothers Day", also reissued under another name - which I forget (maybe an uncommon life) by A Common Reader press, is one of the best books I've read in the past couple of years. She tells the tale of her day-to-day life with achingly funny accuracy, and makes us appreciate the absurdity and preciousness of our own lives. Her style of writing is effortlessly and unpretentiously witty and sophisticated. I would recommend this book to everyone, but especially to mothers of young children and cats!