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Author: Susan Shreve Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated ISBN: 9781568951379 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 304
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Sam McWilliams is the oldest of the 4 McWilliams children, and the only one who remembers how the first 2 cars of the Espresso from Milan to Rome exploded, killing his parents. Haunted by their senseless death, Sam is driven to protect his siblings - even if it means breaking the law. When he winds up in a juvenile home, he begins to write skits centering on the broken families of the boys at the home. Sam's talents culminate in a series of darkly comic sketches. With these sketches as their dramatic fuel, the McWilliams children form the comedy troupe Plum & Jaggers. The McWilliamses, hailed by critics and fans, rise from underground venues to a late-night television slot with their blackly humorous take on family life and the irony of chance. But the controversy they unwittingly create exposes them to dangers - internal and external - that even Sam may not be able to quell.
Author: Susan Shreve Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated ISBN: 9781568951379 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 304
Book Description
Sam McWilliams is the oldest of the 4 McWilliams children, and the only one who remembers how the first 2 cars of the Espresso from Milan to Rome exploded, killing his parents. Haunted by their senseless death, Sam is driven to protect his siblings - even if it means breaking the law. When he winds up in a juvenile home, he begins to write skits centering on the broken families of the boys at the home. Sam's talents culminate in a series of darkly comic sketches. With these sketches as their dramatic fuel, the McWilliams children form the comedy troupe Plum & Jaggers. The McWilliamses, hailed by critics and fans, rise from underground venues to a late-night television slot with their blackly humorous take on family life and the irony of chance. But the controversy they unwittingly create exposes them to dangers - internal and external - that even Sam may not be able to quell.
Author: Eric Miles Williamson Publisher: Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 1680030035 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 266
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Say It Hot Volume II: Industrial Strength is a collection of essays on American poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and issues of interest to artists and academics. A companion volume to Say It Hot, these essays are brutally honest and acutely intelligent. From the book: “Literary authors these days no longer make livings off their work. Their books are not to be found in bookstores, and the books are rarely printed by major New York publishing houses. No one reads their works except for other literary authors and the professors who are evaluating their tenure and promotion folders at the colleges and universities at which they are employed, and it’s a minor miracle if a literary book from a small press sells a thousand copies. Fiction writers from wealth write about writing or they write about the ridiculous “sufferings” of the rich. Fiction writers from the lower classes write about the primordial filth from which they’ve physically escaped but from which they’ll never mentally be able to leave behind. Like war veterans, people who’ve fought it out in the miasma of poverty and blue- collar hell can never get the stink out of their skins, try as they may. Just like people who haven’t been to war can spot vets who have, middle-class people and the rich can spot people who’ve grown up poor, no matter what their position in life or the quality of their designer suits. Those suits just don’t fit right, and the neckties make them fidget and sweat. What the well-heeled authors and the working-class writers have in common is that they’ve been trained not to pronounce moral judgment.”
Author: Susan Richards Shreve Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393084302 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 276
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“Spare, elegant and absolutely riveting.” —People It’s 1973 and the Watergate scandal is on everyone’s lips. Lucy Painter, a children’s book illustrator and single mother of two, leaves New York and the married father of her children to return to Washington, DC, to the neighborhood where she grew up and the house where her father committed suicide. Lucy hopes for a fresh start, but her life is full of secrets: her children know nothing of her father’s death or the identity of their own father. As new neighbors enter their insular lives, her family’s safety and stability become threatened. Beautifully told, You Are the Love of My Life is a story of how shame leads to secrets, secrets to lies, and how lies stand in the way of human connection.
Author: Stephen McCauley Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439122091 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 324
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The inspiration for the film of the same name starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd, this “very funny, exceptionally vivid first novel” (The New York Times Book Review) from Stephen McCauley is a “joyously comic” (People) story about a pregnant New York City social worker who begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend. George and Nina seem like the perfect couple. They share a cozy, cluttered Brooklyn apartment, a taste for impromptu tuna casserole dinners, and a devotion to ballroom dancing lessons at Arthur Murray. They love each other. There’s only one hitch: George is gay. And when Nina announces she’s pregnant, things get especially complicated. Howard—Nina’s overbearing boyfriend and the baby’s father—wants marriage. Nina wants independence. George will do anything for a little unqualified affection, but is he ready to become an unwed surrogate dad? A touching and hilarious novel about love, friendship, and the many ways of making a family.
Author: Nancy Pearl Publisher: Sasquatch Books ISBN: 1570616590 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 306
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What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterateurs with "What If All (name the city) Read the Same Book," has devised reading lists that cater to every mood, occasion, and personality. These annotated lists cover such topics as mother-daughter relationships, science for nonscientists, mysteries of all stripes, African-American fiction from a female point of view, must-reads for kids, books on bicycling, "chick-lit," and many more. Pearl's enthusiasm and taste shine throughout.
Author: Kate Lehrer Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0307420485 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 235
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What happens when love strikes twice--and the second time it does you are already satisfactorily, even happily, married? Michelle Banyon has a successful career as a lifestyle guru and "efficiency consultant." She lives in Manhattan with her kind but thoroughly overworked husband, an international lawyer who spends far more time in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Bombay than he does in their Fifth Avenue apartment. They are the perfect twenty-first-century couple: successful, attractive, self-sufficient, and understanding of the all-too-frequent absences that can sometimes make theirs a virtual marriage. While lecturing in Texas, Michelle literally runs into Wilson Collins as she's backing out of a parking space. The handsome Texan is badly banged up and Michelle feels just awful. She performs one kindness after another as she tries to get him medical help and then get him home. A friendship blooms and, almost as quickly, love does, too. Unlike everyone else in Michelle's life, Wilson has simple needs and desires and, to her immense surprise, she finds that she is someone very different when she’s with him. It’s not that she doesn't love her husband--she does. She just happens to love two men, and the second one wants to marry her, too. Have you ever wondered how many different lives a person could live or how very different one's life might be if fate were to intervene at exactly the right moment? Could you be happy living two entirely different lives? Sit back and enjoy Kate Lehrer's romantic, thought-provoking novel that is simultaneously smart and playful, poignant and compulsively readable. From the Hardcover edition.
Author: Susan Richards Shreve Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780618379026 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 244
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In "Dream Me Home Safely," Alice Walker, Anna Quindlen, Lois Lowry, Nikki Giovanni and many more write on their own American childhoods with intensely intimate writing, through memories both diverse and powerful.
Author: New York Times Staff Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 9781579580582 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 1284
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This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.
Author: Susan Richards Shreve Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393292959 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 184
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“A well-tuned mandolin of a gothic adventure.” —Washington Post On the morning of her seventieth birthday, Georgianna Grove receives an unexpected letter that calls her back to Missing Lake, Wisconsin, where her mother was murdered sixty-six years earlier. Georgie’s father had confessed to the murder the next morning and was carted off to a state penitentiary. Determined to unearth the truth, Georgie takes her reluctant family on what will become a dangerous canoe trip up the swollen Bone River to return to the campsite that has haunted her memories. Thrilling and richly drawn, More News Tomorrow follows a daughter’s quest to finally understand her parents’ fate.
Author: Susan Shreve
Author: Susan Shreve
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Author: Susan Richards Shreve