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Books by Nancy Mairs
  | | A Troubled Guest(Updated) Life and Death Stories by Nancy Mairs, Alan Chong, Richard Lingner, Carl Zahn Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2002 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-6249-4, ISBN: 0-8070-6249-9 "... because of physical and/or mental deviance(s) from the nondisabled norm, tends to be viewed by society at large with ... euthanasia, and capital punishment —few seem capable of contemplating their own end, or that of anyone with whom ..." |
 | | Voice Lessons(Updated) On Becoming a (Woman) Writer by Nancy Mairs Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 1997 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-6007-0, ISBN: 0-8070-6007-0 "Voice Lessons is a book about writing from a woman with a remarkable story to tell and an utterly distinctive voice in which to tell it. Nancy Mairs's essays have been called "triumphs... of will, style, candor, thought and even form" (Los Angeles Times). She has won acclaim for her autobiographical writing on themes from living with depression to renewing a marriage, from sex to religion. In Voice Lessons, Mairs's subjects are literary ..." |
 | | A Dynamic God(1st Edition) Living an Unconventional Catholic Faith by Nancy Mairs Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2008 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-7733-7, ISBN: 0-8070-7733-X "When Nancy Mairs published her spiritual autobiography Ordinary Time, Kathleen Norris greeted it in the New York Times Book Review as "a remarkable accomplishment," calling Mairs "a relentlessly physical writer, as fiercely committed to her art as to her spiritual development." A Dynamic God is Mairs's return to the subjects of religion and spirituality—a passionately individual book of meditations on a life of engaged faith." |
 | | Waist-High in the World(Updated) A Life Among the Nondisabled by Nancy Mairs Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 1997 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-7087-1, ISBN: 0-8070-7087-4 "Nancy Mairs, a gifted essayist who is fierce and funny by turns, landed in a wheelchair years ago due to degenerative multiple sclerosis that has sapped much of her strength. She bends an agile mind and sharp tongue around the daily tasks of seeing eye-to-navel with a world that clearly prefers nondisabled "normals." One candid, pained essay tells of longing to give care, not just accept it. Others describe the shifting line in the sand ..." |
 | | A Dynamic God(1st Edition) Living an Unconventional Catholic Faith by Nancy Mairs Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2007 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-7732-0, ISBN: 0-8070-7732-1 "God doesn't saunter in once for all and settle like a large cat plumping herself into your favorite rocker with an air that says, "Here I am! Now your life is complete!" God dances beyond the threshold and must continually be enticed into our dwelling. I hope these essays remind us all to extend that invitation, clean all the corners and polish the windows, throw wide the door.When acclaimed essayist Nancy Mairs published her spiritual ..." |
 | | Carnal Acts(2nd Edition) by Nancy Mairs Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 1996 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-7085-7, ISBN: 0-8070-7085-8 "Acclaimed personal writing from one of our most out-spoken essayists, on disability, on family, on being an impolite woman, and on the opporunities and "gifts" of a difficult life." |
 | | Remembering The Bone House(1st Edition) by Nancy Mairs Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1995 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-7069-7, ISBN: 0-8070-7069-6 "Nancy Mairs reconstructs her past by exploring her erotic and emotional development in order to lay claim to her life—and women's lives in general. Lyrical, intense, and particular, flouting taboos and self-censorship, this acclaimed memoir explores the spaces that have shaped a life, including the "bone house" of her body." |
 | | Ordinary Time(Reprint) Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal by Nancy Mairs Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1994 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-7057-4, ISBN: 0-8070-7057-2 "Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 1993 An unconventional spiritual autobiography, told in a remarkable, outspoken voice and rooted in the messy realities and questions-the 'ordinary time'-of one woman's life, from infidelity to living with multiple sclerosis, to death, to renewing a marriage." |
 | | Plain Text(Reprint) Essays by Nancy Mairs Paperback, 154 Pages, Published 1992 by University Of Arizona Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-1337-6, ISBN: 0-8165-1337-6 ""The difficulties and despairs through which she has passed have left Nancy Mairs with unique and moving stories to convey, as well as with a strong voice to tell them." --New York Times Book Review "These striking essays by Nancy Mairs are so touching and heartbreakingly honest that one often has to put the book down and rest emotionally before reading on. . . . Readable and compelling, written with intimacy . . . and a swagger." --San ..." |
 | | Recovering Bodies(1st Edition) Illness, Disability, and Life Writing (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography) by G. Thomas Couser, Nancy Mairs Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of Wisconsin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-299-15564-3, ISBN: 0-299-15564-1 "This is a provocative look at writing by and about people with illness or disability in particular HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, deafness, and paralysis-who challenge the stigmas attached to their conditions by telling their lives in their own ways and on their own terms. Discussing memoirs, diaries, collaborative narratives, photo documentaries, essays, and other forms of life writing, G. Thomas Couser shows that these books are not primari ..." |
 | | Waist-High in the World(Large Print) A Life Among the Nondisabled by Nancy Mairs Hardcover, 212 Pages, Published 1997 by Beacon Press Large Print ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-7086-4, ISBN: 0-8070-7086-6 "Nancy Mairs, a gifted essayist who is fierce and funny by turns, landed in a wheelchair years ago due to degenerative multiple sclerosis that has sapped much of her strength. She bends an agile mind and sharp tongue around the daily tasks of seeing eye-to-navel with a world that clearly prefers nondisabled "normals." One candid, pained essay tells of longing to give care, not just accept it. Others describe the shifting line in the sand ..." |
 | | A Troubled Guest(1st Edition) Life and Death Stories by Nancy Mairs Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2001 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-6248-7, ISBN: 0-8070-6248-0 ""Nancy Mairs writes knowingly, even lovingly, about a subject most of us seek to avoid: death and its essential place in life. Her gripping meditations . . . both comfort and provoke with their spiritual strength and hard-won wisdom." —O Magazine"The ten essays in Nancy Mairs's A Troubled Guest . . . radiate the truest kinds of insight about life, illness, death, and above all, love." — Elle Magazine"Through these evo ..." |
 | | Voice Lessons On Becoming A (Woman Writer) by Nancy Mairs Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 1994 by Beacon Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-6006-3, ISBN: 0-8070-6006-2 "Essays discuss the transforming power of literature, the challenges of biography, and the writings of Virginia Woolf and Alice Walker" |
 | | Plain Text(1st Edition) by Nancy Mairs Hardcover, 154 Pages, Published 1986 by University Of Arizona Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-0892-1, ISBN: 0-8165-0892-5 ""The difficulties and despairs through which she has passed have left Nancy Mairs with unique and moving stories to convey, as well as with a strong voice to tell them." —New York Times Book Review "These striking essays by Nancy Mairs are so touching and heartbreakingly honest that one often has to put the book down and rest emotionally before reading on. . . . Readable and compelling, written with intimacy . . . and a swagger." —Sa ..." |
 | | Ordinary Time(1st Edition) Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal by Nancy Mairs Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 1993 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-7056-7, ISBN: 0-8070-7056-4 "The author of Remembering the Bone House presents a collection of essays that discuss her husband's infidelity, her conversion to Catholicism, her husband's cancer, and other personal topics." |
 | | Carnal acts(1st Edition) Essays by Nancy Mairs Hardcover, 161 Pages, Published 1990 by Harpercollinspublishers ISBN-13: 978-0-06-016494-2, ISBN: 0-06-016494-8 "Acclaimed personal writing from one of our most out-spoken essayists, on disability, on family, on being an impolite woman, and on the opporunities and "gifts" of a difficult life." |
 | | Remembering the Bone House An Erotics of Place and Space by Nancy Mairs, Frances Itani Paperback, Published 1990 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-091644-2, ISBN: 0-06-091644-3 |
 | | The Little Locksmith(1st Edition) A Memoir by Katharine Butler Hathaway, Alix Kates Shulman, Nancy Mairs Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2000 by The Feminist Press At Cuny Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-1-55861-239-6, ISBN: 1-55861-239-4 "The Little Locksmith, Katharine Butler Hathaway's luminous memoir of disability, faith, and transformation, is a critically acclaimed but largely forgotten literary classic brought back into print for the first time in thirty years. The Little Locksmith begins in 1895 when a specialist straps five-year-old Katharine, then suffering from spinal tuberculosis, to a board with halters and pulleys in a failed attempt to prevent her being a " ..." |
 | | Waist-High in the World A Life Among the Nondisabled by Nancy Mairs Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 1998 by Beacon Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-7002-4, ISBN: 0-8070-7002-5 "A Life Among the Nondisabled Nancy Mairs. OPENING DOORS 1. Friendly Wheels 21, no. 69 (fall 1994): 5. 2. Ironically, Tucson's system has actually been more progressive than ADA mandates, and so the city is currently cutting it back to ..." |
 | | In All the Rooms of the Yellow House(1st Edition) by Nancy Mairs Hardcover, 78 Pages, Published 1984 by Confluence Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-933188-26-6, ISBN: 0-933188-26-9 "Winner of the 1984 Western States Book Award in Poetry." |
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