Close to Home

by Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodman writes a syndicated column for the Boston Globe. In Close to Home over 100 of her columns - shrewd, funny, and sentimental - are brought together.

Genres: Nonfiction, Essays

251 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Ellen Goodman is an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist.

Reviews

[Catherine · Rating 2 out of 5]

I used to enjoy reading her column but this collection of her columns from the 1970s, published in 1979, was too dated to really be enjoyable any more. She wrote primarily about current events which are no longer timely & on those subjects which are sadly still actually of issue, her take on them is often dated. Too bad - I wanted to enjoy this

[Caroline · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really miss her newspaper columns since she retired.

[Gail · Rating 5 out of 5]

A collection of her essays first printed in the newspaper. I think even though the book was written in 1986 it would be interesting to revist.