Slow Motion is the critically-lauded bestselling memoir from acclaimed novelist Dani Shapiro (Black & White, Family History). Slow Motion is a “riveting” and “breathtaking” look (San Francisco Chronicle), free of self-pity or regret, at a life that was rescued by an unspeakable tragedy. Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Life Rescued by Tragedy Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Dani Shapiro (Author, Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) 4.4 out of 5 stars 111 ratings See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions.
Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
Dani Shapiro’s memoir Slow Motion was the perfect choice for Project Brave Woman that was sitting right under my nose for months. I had become interested in Shapiro’s writing after learning about her from my mother, Monica, and after hearing interviews with her on two of my favorite podcasts, Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday and MarieTV. About Slow Motion. From one of the most gifted writers of her generation comes the harrowing and exquisitely written true story of how a family tragedy saved her life. Dani Shapiro was a young girl from a deeply religious home who became the girlfriend of a famous and flamboyant married attorney—her best friend’s stepfather.
Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time–abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. With courage and relentless honesty, Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart, and invites us to witness her own marital reckoning–a reckoning in which she confronts both the life she dreamed of and the life she made, and struggles to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become.
What are the forces that shape our most elemental bonds? How do we make lifelong commitments in the face of identities that are continuously shifting, and commit ourselves for all time when the self is so often in flux? What happens to love in the face of the unexpected, in the face of disappointment and compromise–how do we wrest beauty from imperfection, find grace in the ordinary, desire what we have rather than what we lack? Drawing on literature, poetry, philosophy, and theology, Shapiro writes gloriously of the joys and challenges of matrimonial life, in a luminous narrative that unfurls with urgent immediacy and sharp intelligence. Artful, intensely emotional work from one of our finest writers.
Scope and Content Note
Series I consists of records from the Stamford Campus from the years 1950 to 2006. The records from the Stamford regional campus consist of Illustrations, newspaper clippings, correspondence, manuscripts, fliers, publications, and administrative and financial records. Subjects in the first series include the render='italic'>Connecticut Daily Campus, the history of sports, articles such as '4 Year College at Stamford,' UConn Branch Building Funds, and Campaign Office Committees.
Series II consists of publications from the Greater Hartford Campus from the years 1988 to 2011. The records from the Greater Hartford branch include schedules of classes and course syllabi.
Series III includes materials documenting programs and activities of the Waterbury campus.
Series IV documents the Torrington Campus.
Series V consists of materials documenting the merger of oversight of the Waterbury, Greater Hartford and Torrington campuses.
Series VI includes materials documenting the Avery Point and Fort Trumbull campuses. Documentation of Branford house may also be found in Connecticut History Online and its nomination for the National Register of Historic Sites.
Dates
Slow Motion Dani Shapiro
- 2006 September 27
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1 item (Dani Shapiro: Slow Motion, A True Story (1998)) : DVD ; Run time is is 1 hour, 22 min.
107.53 Megabytes (Dani Shapiro: Slow Motion, A True Story (1998), Part 1) : MP4 digital file ; Run time is 20 min.
102.11 Megabytes (Dani Shapiro: Slow Motion, A True Story (1998), Part 2) : MP4 digital file ; Run time is 20 min.
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14.77 Megabytes (Dani Shapiro: Slow Motion, A True Story (1998), Part 5) : MP4 digital file ; Run time is 4 min (full presentation not available, end is cut off).
Language of Materials
English
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Repository Details
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Dani Shapiro: Slow Motion, A True Story (1998), 2006 September 27. Archives and Special Collections, University of Connecticut Library.
Lenny Klein
Dani Shapiro: Slow Motion, A True Story (1998), 2006 September 27. Archives and Special Collections, University of Connecticut Library. https://archivessearch.lib.uconn.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/246405 Accessed April 26, 2021.