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Fading, My Parmacheene Belle

Author : Joanna Scott
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312421373
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Fading, My Parmacheene Belle written by Joanna Scott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mourning the loss of his wife, and in a fit of rage and grief, an aged fisherman attacks his son and flees into the neighboring woods. Soon accompanied by a teenage waif, the fisherman regales the girl with tales of his beloved, his “Parmacheene Belle;” muses on the modernizing world; and forges on his quixotic quest to reach his late wife’s native coast. Joanna Scott’s debut novel is one of the strangest love stories ever told, as well as an exploration into the unknown heart of our country.

Conversations with Joanna Scott

Author : Michael Lackey
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496829344
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Joanna Scott written by Michael Lackey and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joanna Scott (b. 1960) has been one of America’s leading writers since the 1990s. Both critically acclaimed and winner of numerous prestigious awards, Scott’s unique and probing vision and masterful writing has inspired readers to adjust their perceptions of life and of themselves. Her fiction jolts and illuminates, frequently exposing the degree to which the perverse is natural and the ordinary is twisted and demented. Conversations with Joanna Scott presents eighteen interviews that span two decades and are as much about the process of reading as they are about writing. Witty, probing, wide-ranging, and insightful, Scott’s off-the-cuff observations about literature and life are as thought-provoking as some of the most memorable lines and scenes in her fiction. Not only shedding new light on Scott’s fiction, Conversations with Joanna Scott also illuminates enduring areas of inquiry, like the challenge of trying to make art out of sentences; the effort to recover and imagine lost stories from the past; the changing status of the literary imagination; fictional portraiture and the productive possibilities that come from blending biography and fiction; and concerns about literacy. Joanna Scott has made her name through brilliant, award-winning novels, but this volume clarifies why she is also one of America’s leading public intellectuals and an astute critic of literature and culture.

The Best Novels of the Nineties

Author : Linda Parent Lesher
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476603898
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Best Novels of the Nineties written by Linda Parent Lesher and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader’s guide provides uniquely organized and up-to-date information on the most important and enjoyable contemporary English-language novels. Offering critically substantiated reading recommendations, careful cross-referencing, and extensive indexing, this book is appropriate for both the weekend reader looking for the best new mystery and the full-time graduate student hoping to survey the latest in magical realism. More than 1,000 titles are included, each entry citing major reviews and giving a brief description for each book.

De Potter's Grand Tour

Author : Joanna Scott
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374162336
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book De Potter's Grand Tour written by Joanna Scott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1905, a tourist agent and amateur antiques collector named Armand de Potter mysteriously disappeared off the coast of Greece. His body is never recovered and his wife is left to manage his affairs on her own. But as she starts to piece together his life, she realizes that everything was not as he had said. Infused with details from letters and diary entries, the [book] twists forward and backward through time, revealing a lost world of fake identities, underground antiques networks, and a husband who wasn't what he seemed"--Amazon.com.

Various Antidotes

Author : Joanna Scott
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250096510
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Various Antidotes written by Joanna Scott and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A greatly gifted and highly original artist...Various Antidotes is purely and simply wonderful."--The New York Times Book Review The miraculous, transformative stories of Joanna Scott's Various Antidotes range across the world of history and science, alighting on figures both real and imaginary. The stories within are those of obsession and brilliance, of the ultimately human recognition that the world is larger than we believe it to be and that we, as figures within it, have through understanding the power to change that world. Whether through learning or madness or accident, the scientists and students within Various Antidotes expose us to the glorious blossom of the natural world.

Make Believe

Author : Joanna Scott
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316478202
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Make Believe written by Joanna Scott and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When four-year-old Bo is orphaned in the car accident that kills his mother, he becomes the focus of a fierce custody struggle and flees into himself -- away from the sea of strangers -- where he inhabits an eerie inner landscape. The world of "make believe" into which we are drawn in this remarkable novel -- hailed for both its lyrical prose and its profound dramatic and emotional intensity -- is the world of four-year-old Bo, cast adrift in a sea of strangers as he becomes the focus of a fierce custody battle between two sets of grandparents, one black and one white. "This is a compelling story that will leave readers haunted by Scott's powerful moral vision."-Publishers' Weekly

Liberation

Author : Joanna Scott
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0316028134
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Liberation written by Joanna Scott and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught in a perilous divide between life and death, Mrs. Rundel is both a woman struggling to catch her breath, and the child she was 60 years earlier who struggled to survive the violence of the liberation of Italy and experienced the everlasting innocence of first love from an enemy soldier.

A Book of Common Praise

Author : Robert Boyers
Publisher : Ausable Press
ISBN 13 : 9781931337038
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book A Book of Common Praise written by Robert Boyers and published by Ausable Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In clear, interesting, lively prose, Boyers offers superb models for the very short critical essay.

The Manikin

Author : Joanna Scott
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1250096502
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Manikin written by Joanna Scott and published by Picador. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Manikin is not a mannequin, but the curious estate of Henry Craxton, Sr. in a rural western New York State. Dubbed the "Henry Ford of Natural History," by 1917 Craxton has become America's preeminent taxidermist. Into this magic box of a world-filled with eerily inanimate gibbons and bats, owls and peacocks, quetzals and crocodiles-wanders young Peg Griswood, daughter of Craxton's newest housekeeper. Part coming-of-age story, part gothic mystery, and part exploration of the intimate embrace between art and life, Joanna Scott's The Manikin is compulsively readable and beautifully written.

Tourmaline

Author : Joanna Scott
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 031602886X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Tourmaline written by Joanna Scott and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vividly imagined novel from award-winning Joanna Scott. In the mid-1950s, an American family travels to an island off the coast of Italy to make a fortune in gemstones.

Everybody Loves Somebody

Author : Joanna Scott
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 031607683X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Everybody Loves Somebody written by Joanna Scott and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2009-06-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joanna Scott's unparalleled gift for storytelling has inspired hyperbole from critics and her devoted fanbase, which includes some of the most preeminent writers of our time. But not since Various Antidotes, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, has she turned her talents toward short stories. At the seaside wedding of two lovers kept apart by the caprices of fate, a doting uncle looks on while his errant brother, father of the bride,struggles to free himself from a locked bathroom across town. A young woman arrives in Jazz Age New York with stars in her eyes and a few coins in her pocket and after a string of failed jobs, she thinks she's found salvation in a romance with her boss at a local greasy spoon but learns that her idea of herself and others'ideas of her are quite different. A bright business man seems content with all the trappings his good fortune affords, until a flat tire and a chance encounter with a couple of mechanics in the country upsets his entire view. Here Joanna Scott offers a group of tales that celebrate her acknowledged sense of character, plot and her gift for capturing the breathtaking tension even in life's quietest moments.

The Closest Possible Union

Author : Joanna Scott
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312421366
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book The Closest Possible Union written by Joanna Scott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joanna Scott’s provocative second novel chronicles the life of the Charles Beauchamp, a slave ship, and its fourteen-year-old captain’s apprentice, Tom. The son of the ship’s owner, Tom must navigate the volatile waters of the boat’s crew: a wrathful captain, a raving preacher, a dangerous messboy, and a shadowy deckhand with hidden cargo of his own. As the Charles Beauchamp makes its fateful journey across the Atlantic, Scott unfurls a hallucinatory saga that rings with a modern immediacy.

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set

Author : Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405192445
Total Pages : 1581 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set written by Brian W. Shaffer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 1581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile

Arrogance

Author : Joanna Scott
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312423889
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Arrogance written by Joanna Scott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Austrian artist Egon Schiele comes to life in a narrative that defies convention, history, and identity. A self-professed genius and student of August Klimt, Scott's Schiele repeatedly challenges the boundaries of early twentieth-century Europe. Thrown in jail on charges of immorality, Schiele's Mephistophelean reputation only grows in stature until at the age of twenty-eight, the artist dies in the Great Flu Pandemic. Told from a crosscurrent of voices, viewpoints and times."--page 4 of cover.

Careers for Women

Author : Joanna Scott
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316363871
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Careers for Women written by Joanna Scott and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York in the late 1950s. A city, and a world, on the cusp of change . . . Maggie Gleason is looking toward the future. Part of a midcentury wave of young women seeking new lives in New York City, Maggie works for legendary Port Authority public relations maven Lee K. Jaffe -- affectionately known to her loyal staff as Mrs. J. Having left Cleveland, Maggie has come to believe that she can write any story for herself that she imagines. Pauline Moreau is running from the past -- and a shameful secret. She arrives in the city on the brink of despair, saddled with a young daughter who needs more love, attention, and resources than Pauline can ever hope to provide. Seeing that Pauline needs a helping hand, Mrs. J tasks Maggie with befriending, and looking after, Pauline. As the old New York gives way to the new, and Mrs. J's dream of the world's largest skyscraper begins to rise from the streets of lower Manhattan, Pauline -- with the aid of Maggie and Mrs. J -- also remakes herself. But when she reignites the scandal that drove her to New York, none of their lives will ever be the same. Maggie must question everything she thought she knew about love, work, ambition, and family to discover the truth about the enigmatic, strong woman she thought she had rescued. Careers for Women is a masterful novel about the difficulties of building a career, a dream, or a life -- and about the powerful small mercies of friendship and compassion.

World Authors, 1985-1990

Author : Vineta Colby
Publisher : New York : H.W. Wilson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1050 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book World Authors, 1985-1990 written by Vineta Colby and published by New York : H.W. Wilson. This book was released on 1995 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides incisive accounts of 345 writers' lives and works, including critical responses and bibliographies. The authors include novelists, playwrights, and poets who have risen to prominence in the late 1980s as well as essayists, historians, biographers, critics, philosophers, and scientists who have made exceptional contributions to literature. Some included authors are Jean Baudrillard, Andrei Codrescu, Bharati Mukherjee, and Amy Tan. Previous volumes in the series cover Western literature from classical times through the 19th century. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Kirkus Reviews

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Kirkus Reviews written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adult books are categorized by genre (i.e., fiction, mystery, science fiction, nonfiction). Along with bibliographic information, the expected date of publication and the names of literary agents for individual titles are provided. Starred reviews serve several functions: In the adult section, they mark potential bestsellers, major promotions, book club selections, and just very good books; in the children's section, they denote books of very high quality. The unsigned reviews manage to be discerning and sometimes quite critical.