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Author : William Maxwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780517135846
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Billie Dyer and Other Stories written by William Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1994-12-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Maxwell
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Billie Dyer and Other Stories written by William Maxwell and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1992 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through seven wonderfully moving stories, 40-year New Yorker editor William Maxwell revisits his native town of Lincoln, Illinois, in the early 1900s and brings back some of its inhabitants who peopled his youth and have, through the years, haunted his memories.
Author : William Maxwell
Publisher : G K Hall & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780816155729
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (557 download)
Download or read book Billie Dyer, and Other Stories written by William Maxwell and published by G K Hall & Company. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billie Dyer -- Love -- The man in the moon -- With reference to an incident at the bridge -- My father's friends -- the front and back parts of the home -- The holy terror.
Author : W. Douglas Fisher
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476623171
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book African American Doctors of World War I written by W. Douglas Fisher and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In World War I, 104 African American doctors joined the United States Army to care for the 40,000 men of the 92nd and 93rd Divisions, the Army's only black combat units. The infantry regiments of the 93rd arrived first and were turned over to the French to fill gaps in their decimated lines. The 92nd Division came later and fought alongside other American units. Some of those doctors rose to prominence; others died young or later succumbed to the economic and social challenges of the times. Beginning with their assignment to the Medical Officers Training Camp (Colored)--the only one in U.S. history--this book covers the early years, education and war experiences of these physicians, as well as their careers in the black communities of early 20th century America.
Author : MR Bill Dyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781619619173
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Doing Time with God: Stories of Healing and Hope in Our Prisons written by MR Bill Dyer and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True crime stories provide the foundation of this prison memoir. Bill Dyer was robbed and shot at an ATM. In Doing Time with God, you go into prison with him and other victims of violence to meet with convicted felons who will be facing their worst and greatest realizations, before they are released. Nothing is predictable when victims and offenders come together and share their stories of the true crimes that have devastated their lives...and reshaped them. Victim-survivors remember their losses and feel their pain; Offenders come face-to-face with the hurt they have caused, and open wounds from their own past. Walls of defensiveness and fear are knocked down by empathy and compassion, vulnerability and tears. Raw emotions flow. The way to peace is often intense, turbulent, and heartbreaking. Even when it's not pretty, the journey is beautiful in its honesty... miraculous in the way it unfolds...divine in how it transforms lives. This Amazing Process Opens the Heart, Touches the Soul, and Renews the Mind
Author : William Maxwell
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804150141
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book All the Days and Nights written by William Maxwell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the American Book Award-winning author of Ancestors and Time Will Darken comes a masterful collection of stories, spanning more than 50 years--a tour of a world that engages readers entirely, and whose characters command the deepest loyalty and tenderness.
Author : Clif Cleaveland
Publisher : ACP Press
ISBN 13 : 1930513542
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Healers & Heroes written by Clif Cleaveland and published by ACP Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When was the last time you sat down and read a book that made you want to stand up and cheer? Clif Cleaveland's Healers & Heroes: Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times is a collection of true stories about ordinary men and women who, through courage and fortitude, exemplify what it means to love life.
Author : Barbara A. Burkhardt
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252030185
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book William Maxwell written by Barbara A. Burkhardt and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known as the longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker, William Maxwell worked closely with greats like Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, Mary McCarthy, John Cheever, and many others. His own novels include They Came Like Swallows and So Long, See You Tomorrow, and have become so highly acclaimed that many now consider him to be one of the twentieth-century's most important writers. Barbara A. Burkhardt's William Maxwell: A Literary Life represents the first major critical study of Maxwell's life and work.Writing with an economy and elegance befitting her subject, Burkhardt addresses Maxwell's highly autobiographical fiction by skillfully interweaving his biography with her own critical interpretations. She begins each chapter with commentary on the biographical circumstances and literary influences that affected each of his compositions. By contextualizing his novels and short stories in terms of events including his mother's early death from influenza, his marriage, and the role of his psychoanalysis under the guidance of Theodore Reik, Burkhardt's subsequent literary analyses achieve an unprecedented depth.Drawing on a wide range of previously unavailable material, Burkhardt includes letters written to Maxwell by authors like Eudora Welty and Louise Bogan, excerpts from Maxwell's unpublished manuscripts and correspondence, and her own interviews with key figures from his life, including John Updike, Roger Angell, New Yorker fiction editor Robert Henderson, and Maxwell's family and friends. She also presents several lengthy sessions with Maxwell himself.A must for anyone already familiar with the understated charms of Maxwell's writing, this volume also represents a major addition to the growing collection of New Yorker lore, sure to fascinate anyone interested in the fiction, history, and personalities connected with the most influential weekly.Barbara A. Burkhardt is an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois at Springfield. A close acquaintance of Maxwell, she organized his correspondence for the Maxwell archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign library, as well as writing the catalog for two exhibitions.
Author : June Skinner Sawyers
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810126494
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Chicago Portraits written by June Skinner Sawyers and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famous, the infamous, and the unjustly forgotten—all receive their due in this biographical dictionary of the people who have made Chicago one of the world’s great cities. Here are the life stories—provided in short, entertaining capsules—of Chicago’s cultural giants as well as the industrialists, architects, and politicians who literally gave shape to the city. Jane Addams, Al Capone, Willie Dixon, Harriet Monroe, Louis Sullivan, Bill Veeck, Harold Washington, and new additions Saul Bellow, Harry Caray, Del Close, Ann Landers, Walter Payton, Koko Taylor, and Studs Terkel—Chicago Portraits tells you why their names are inseparable from the city they called home.
Author : William Maxwell
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617032549
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Conversations with William Maxwell written by William Maxwell and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversations with William Maxwell collects thirty-eight interviews, public speeches, and remarks that span five decades of the esteemed novelist and New Yorker editor's career. The interviews collectively address the entirety of Maxwell's literary work--with in-depth discussion of his short stories, essays, and novels including They Came Like Swallows, The Folded Leaf, and the American Book award-winning So Long, See You Tomorrow--as well as his forty-year tenure as a fiction editor working with such luminaries as John Updike, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Vladimir Nabokov, and J.D. Salinger. Maxwell's words spoken before a crowd, some previously unpublished, pay moving tribute to literary friends and mentors, and offer reflections on the artistic life, the process of writing, and his Midwestern heritage. All retain the reserved poignancy of his fiction. The volume publishes for the first time the full transcript of Maxwell's extensive interviews with his biographer and, in an introduction, correspondence with writers including Updike and Saul Bellow, which enlivens the stories behind his interviews and appearances.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1096 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Orner
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1936787261
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Am I Alone Here? written by Peter Orner and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This National Book Critics Circle Award is “an entrancing attempt to catch what falls between: the irreducibly personal, messy, even embarrassing ways reading and living bleed into each other, which neither literary criticism nor autobiography ever quite acknowledges.” —The New York Times “Stories, both my own and those I’ve taken to heart, make up whoever it is that I’ve become,” Peter Orner writes in this collection of essays about reading, writing, and living. Orner reads and writes everywhere he finds himself: a hospital cafeteria, a coffee shop in Albania, or a crowded bus in Haiti. The result is a book of unlearned meditations that stumbles into memoir. Among the many writers Orner addresses are Isaac Babel and Zora Neale Hurston, both of whom told their truths and were silenced; Franz Kafka, who professed loneliness but craved connection; Robert Walser, who spent the last twenty-three years of his life in a Swiss insane asylum, working at being crazy; and Juan Rulfo, who practiced the difficult art of silence. Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Yasunari Kawabata, Saul Bellow, Mavis Gallant, John Edgar Wideman, William Trevor, and Václav Havel make appearances, as well as the poet Herbert Morris--about whom almost nothing is known. An elegy for an eccentric late father, and the end of a marriage, Am I Alone Here? is also a celebration of the possibility of renewal. At once personal and panoramic, this book will inspire readers to return to the essential stories of their own lives.
Author : Gale, Cengage
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 0028665384
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (286 download)
Download or read book "A Study Guide for William Keepers Maxwell Jr.'s ""So Long, See You Tomorrow""" written by Gale, Cengage and published by Gale, Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Study Guide for William Keepers Maxwell Jr.'s ""So Long, See You Tomorrow"", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs."
Author : Charles Baxter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393057713
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (577 download)
Download or read book A William Maxwell Portrait written by Charles Baxter and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers who knew and were inspired by William Maxwell--revered as one of the 20th century's great American writers--offer intimate essays, most specifically written for this volume.
Author : William Maxwell
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307491951
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Time Will Darken It written by William Maxwell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pregnant with her second child, Martha King finds her marriage to lawyer Austin King more and more frustrating when her husband befriends his young foster cousin, Nora, and, in the process, unwittingly jeopardizes his marriage, career, and place in the community.
Author : William Maxwell
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030748145X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Ancestors written by William Maxwell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award-winning author of So Long, See You Tomorrow offers an astonishing evocation of a vanished world, as he retraces, branch by branch, the history of his family, taking readers into the lives of settlers, itinerant preachers, and small businessmen, examining the way they saw their world and how they imagined the world to come.
Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547376499
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)
Download or read book What There is to Say We Have Said written by Eudora Welty and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: literary studies.
