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Download or read book The Ponder Heart written by Eudora Welty and published by HMH. This book was released on 1967-10-18 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wonderful tragicomedy” of a Mississippi family, a vast inheritance, and an impulsive heir, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Delta Wedding (The New York Times). Daniel Ponder is the amiable heir to the wealthiest family in Clay County, Mississippi. To friends and strangers, he’s also the most generous, having given away heirlooms, a watch, and so far, at least one family business. His niece, Edna Earle, has a solution to save the Ponder fortune from Daniel’s mortifying philanthropy: As much as she loves Daniel, she’s decided to have him institutionalized. Foolproof as the plan may seem, it comes with a kink—one that sets in motion a runaway scheme of mistaken identity, a hapless local widow, a reckless wedding, a dim-witted teenage bride, and a twist of dumb luck that lands this once-respectable Southern family in court to brave an embarrassing trial for murder. It’s become the talk of Clay County. And the loose-tongued Edna Earle will tell you all about it. “The most revered figure in contemporary American letters,” said the New York Times of Eudora Welty, which also hailed The Ponder Heart—a winner of the William Dean Howells Medal which was adapted into both a Broadway play and a PBS Masterpiece series—as “Miss Welty at her comic, compassionate best.”
Download or read book A Heart So White written by Javier Marías and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE IMPAC DUBLIN AWARD • Widely considered a masterpiece, a breathtaking novel about family secrets that chronicles the relentless power of the past—from the award-winning author of The Infatuations and "Spain's best writer" (Roberto Bolaño, national bestselling author of The Savage Detectives). Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries, he begins to consider the past anew, and begins to ponder what he doesn't really want to know. Secrecy—its possible convenience, its price, and even its civility—hovers throughout the novel. A Heart So White becomes a sort of anti-detective story of human nature. Intrigue; the sins of the father; the fraudulent and the genuine; marriage and strange repetitions of violence: Marías elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into shadows and onto the costs of ambivalence.
Download or read book The Heart Broke In written by James Meek and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scientist obsessed with evolution but unable to have children, a malaria researcher trying to choose between freedom and love, and a washed-up TV svengali whose life goes into free fall—The Heart Broke In follows these characters through a riveting exploration of what conscience means in the 21st century, and how we attempt to make our lives count for something. It is a glorious drama, as well as an old-fashioned tale of modern times. When Bec Shepherd rejects marriage to a powerful newspaper editor in favour of starting a family with fellow scientist Alex, her sense of right and wrong is put to the test. Bec’s brother Ritchie has built a hugely successful career in entertainment, but allegations about his private life are threatening to destroy his marriage, his career and his mind. Does Bec and Alex’s relationship stand a chance? Will Ritchie’s indiscretion catch up with him?
Download or read book Delta Wedding written by Eudora Welty and published by HMH. This book was released on 1979-03-21 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel of a Mississippi family in the 1920s “presents the essence of the Deep South and does it with infinite finesse” (The Christian Science Monitor). From one of the most treasured American writers, winner of a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, comes Delta Wedding, a vivid and charming portrait of Southern life. Set in 1923, the story is centered on the Fairchilds, a big and clamorous family, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. They are in the midst of planning their daughter’s wedding when a nine-year-old relative, Laura McRaven, whose mother has just died, comes to visit. Drama leads to drama, revelation to revelation, in a novel that is “nothing short of wonderful” (The New Yorker). The result is a sometimes-riotous view of a Southern family, and the parentless child who learns to become one of them.
Book Synopsis Absence Makes the Heart Ponder by : Nels Garthus
Download or read book Absence Makes the Heart Ponder written by Nels Garthus and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Absence Makes the Heart Ponder takes the reader to the center of the known universe, Port Washington, Wisconsin, and into the lives and minds of three thirty-something men as they meet and form a lasting friendship through unusual circumstances. Adventure, intrigue, and romance ensue as they try to balance their personal and work lives while coming to grips with the now looming threat of middle age. Absence Makes the Heart Ponder gives the female reader a glimpse of the male perspective and attempts to answer the age-old question What is going on in his head? with humor and sarcasm while giving an outlet to the male reader for the unique banter and camaraderie that only men share. "Living with Heidi was great. It was like we were married, only better, because we weren't." "The Peace Corps has got nothing on parenthood; trust me. A friend of mine went to Tanzania for three years to teach math, a noble endeavor to be sure, but he still found time to email and update his Facebook page. Elise and I didn't have time to update our clocks after daylight savings time, let alone flit about in any cyber social circles." "Evonne claimed to have official, yet undocumented proof that her beliefs were facts; she just couldn't substantiate it. Her morals were an iron clad dogma, and she expected full well that everyone should see things the way she did."
Download or read book Losing Battles written by Eudora Welty and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three generations of Granny Vaughn's descendants gather at her Mississippi home to celebrate her 90th birthday. Possessed of the true storyteller's gift, the members of this clan cannot resist the temptation to swap tales.
Book Synopsis The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by : Eudora Welty
Download or read book The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty written by Eudora Welty and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1980 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories as good in themselves and as influential on the aspirations of others as any since Hemingway's. These stories are honest, and vastly entertaining.
Book Synopsis Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's by : Tiffany Midge
Download or read book Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's written by Tiffany Midge and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is there no Native woman David Sedaris? Or Native Anne Lamott? Humor categories in publishing are packed with books by funny women and humorous sociocultural-political commentary—but no Native women. There are presumably more important concerns in Indian Country. More important than humor? Among the Diné/Navajo, a ceremony is held in honor of a baby’s first laugh. While the context is different, it nonetheless reminds us that laughter is precious, even sacred. Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s is a powerful and compelling collection of Tiffany Midge’s musings on life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in America. Artfully blending sly humor, social commentary, and meditations on love and loss, Midge weaves short, stand-alone musings into a memoir that stares down colonialism while chastising hipsters for abusing pumpkin spice. She explains why she does not like pussy hats, mercilessly dismantles pretendians, and confesses her own struggles with white-bread privilege. Midge goes on to ponder Standing Rock, feminism, and a tweeting president, all while exploring her own complex identity and the loss of her mother. Employing humor as an act of resistance, these slices of life and matchless takes on urban-Indigenous identity disrupt the colonial narrative and provide commentary on popular culture, media, feminism, and the complications of identity, race, and politics.
Book Synopsis My Heart Went Walking by : Sally Hanan
Download or read book My Heart Went Walking written by Sally Hanan and published by Fire Drinkers Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-05 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1984 in the west of Ireland, and two sisters have unwittingly betrayed each other. My Heart Went Walking follows Una, who gives up everything to protect the people she loves, and her sister Ellie, who is left behind to pick up the pieces. With the prose of Sue Monk Kidd mixed with the dialogue of Maeve Binchy, this is a captivating, emotional, and uplifting debut novel set against the sweeping landscape of rural Ireland and Dublin City in the 1980s. Una runs away from her home and family in Donegal to start over in the “big smoke” of Dublin City, leaving a bereft family looking for answers. A year later, wondering if it might be safe to go back, she comes face-to-face with the heartbreaking reality that if she does so, she'll ruin her sister Ellie's newfound happiness. Una stays away and processes her pain alone while building a new life for herself with help from an unexpected source … until tragedy strikes and she must go home, where the secrets she has fought so hard to keep could destroy all their lives. My Heart Went Walking is a story of heartbreak and difficult choices, of tragedy and romance, of giving up everything to save your loved ones and trying to figure out your new path in life. With its evocative and witty prose, Sally Hanan will take you back to the '80s and pull you in to the Irish approach to life — that of grit and laughter — and leave you with an overriding reminder of the possibility of hope and restoration in all things.
Book Synopsis The Bride of the Innisfallen by : Eudora Welty
Download or read book The Bride of the Innisfallen written by Eudora Welty and published by HMH. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of classic American southern literature. Combining stories set in the rural south, Eudora Welty’s own special province, and stories with a European locale, which give a wider range to her fiction, The Bride of Innisfallen demonstrates the remarkable talent of one of the finest short story writers of our time. The gentle wit of the title story, the grave and musical prose of “Circe,” a retelling of Greek myth, the acute character portrayal and extraordinary evocation of the steamy bayou county in “No Place for You, My Love” are all touched with the particular magic that has made Welty one of America’s most beloved storytellers. “The writing throughout is at Ms. Welty’s best level.” —Edward Weeks, The Atlantic
Book Synopsis The Robber Bridegroom by : Eudora Welty
Download or read book The Robber Bridegroom written by Eudora Welty and published by HMH. This book was released on 1978-11-08 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes a classic fairy tale and turns it into a novel set along the eighteenth-century frontier of the Natchez Trace. In the clammy forests of Louisiana, somewhere between New Orleans and the muddy Mississippi River, the berry-stained bandit of the woods, Jamie Lockhart, saves the life of a gullible planter. In reward, Jamie is given shelter—only to kidnap the planter’s lovely young daughter, Rosamund. It’s an impulsive act that will have far-reaching consequences, and will set in motion a series of fantastic, murderous, and flamboyantly uncivilized romantic adventures. With legendary figures of Mississippi’s past—including notorious riverboatman Mike Fink and the thrill-killing Harp brothers—mingling side-by-side with characters from legendary fairy tales and the author’s own imagination, The Robber Bridegroom in an exuberant cocktail of fantasy, folklore and history along the treacherous Natchez Trace. The basis of the popular musical that has run both on and off Broadway, The Robber Bridegroom is “a modern fairy tale, where irony and humor, outright nonsense, deep wisdom and surrealistic extravaganzas becomes a poetic unity through the power of a pure exquisite style” (The New York Times). “As sly and irresistible as anything in Candide. For all her wild, rich fancy, Welty writes prose that is as disciplined as it is beautiful.” —The New Yorker
Download or read book Eudora Welty written by Eudora Welty and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together in one volume are 250 representative photographs from the collection of a few thousand which Eudora Welty took during the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. It is a dazzling record of Welty's unique and special vision.
Book Synopsis The Heart of Science by : Jayshree Seth
Download or read book The Heart of Science written by Jayshree Seth and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore big ideas with the Science Advocate in Chief through this collection of insights, reflections, and tips. Compiled from a career that spans over 25 years and more than 65 patents, Dr. Jayshree Seth discusses our relationship with science, technology, and engineering while offering her unique perspective on topics surrounding advocacy, interdisciplinary contexts, dynamic leadership, and inclusive progress.
Book Synopsis Through the Heart by : Richard Grant
Download or read book Through the Heart written by Richard Grant and published by Spectra. This book was released on 1992 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy is traded by his father to Oasis--a monstrous vehicle that moves inexorably across the wasteland, dispensing treatment for "The Crying", a plague of madness that has destroyed the land. "A daring and fearless writer, possessing uncommon ambition, talent, and literacy".--Washington Post Book World.
Book Synopsis Eudora Welty: Complete Novels (LOA #101) by : Eudora Welty
Download or read book Eudora Welty: Complete Novels (LOA #101) written by Eudora Welty and published by . This book was released on 1998-08 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete Novels, The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battle, The Optimist's Daughter.
Book Synopsis The Heart of Prosperity by : Catherine Ponder
Download or read book The Heart of Prosperity written by Catherine Ponder and published by Devorss Publications. This book was released on 2015-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 50 years, Catherine Ponder has been inspiring and helpingpeople from all walks of life overcome personal and financial hardships through her worldwide spiritual ministry and prosperity books. As individuals work to turn the tide and discover their own path to prosperity, certain quotes and excerpts from her books seem to connect and resonate as the one reminder to help them stay focused.For the first time, here is a collection of over 100 powerful quotes and affirmations by Catherine Ponder presented in a random format that allows everyone the opportunity to plant a new seed and receive the spark it takes to make bold changes. It s as simple as opening a book:Identify and focus on a new direction.Close your eyes and open to any page.Open your heart and read the passage slowly.Begin a new journey to prosperity.
Book Synopsis The Ponder Heart by : Joseph A. Fields
Download or read book The Ponder Heart written by Joseph A. Fields and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
