Stories by the famous and the emerging: Raymond Carver, Alice Walker, Junot Diaz, Melanie Rae Thon, Jamaica Kincaid, Reginald McNight, Amy Tan, and more.
A white woman named Miriam Vener used to be a civil rights activist, but now she lives a conventional middle-class life in Houston with her family, spending summers in an equally conventional New England town. Then her long-estranged daughter, Veronica, turns up. Veronica is of mixed race, the product of Miriam's romance with a black professor, ...
An idealistic couple, Teddy and Jessie Carlls, former activists in the civil rights movement in the 1960s and deeply committed to racial tolerance and equality, live with their children as virtually the only whites in a black development. When Teddy's racist sister and her husband are killed in an automobile accident, the Carlls are named as ...
A horrible boating accident that results from her husband's carelessness leaves Laura Courser a quadriplegic. After a year of rehabilitation, Laura comes home and tries to adjust to her shattering physical limitations. The point-of-view in the novel shifts between Laura's husband's third-person narrative and Laura's first-person monologues.
Ben and Carolyn--a sculptor and a pediatrician--have two teenage children, Jacob and Judith. Jacob's girlfriend is killed, and it appears that Jacob is the murderer. Ben's reaction is to conceal the truth, hide evidence, and refuse to testify before the grand jury. Carolyn and Judith must deal with these various kinds of shame, horror, and ...
Rosellen Brown returns to Oxford, New Hampshire to take another look at Cora Fry after nearly 20 years, in poems that deal with the challenges that come with the approach of middle age.
The author of Tender Mercies and Civil Wars demonstrates her command of diverse genres in this engaging collection of poetry, short stories, and essays. Best known for her carefully crafted, emotionally resonant novels, Rosellen Brown is committed to the ideal of the well-rounded writer. She shifts easily from prose to poetry, from fiction to ...
This title describes the life of the first person, man or woman, to fly across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west, from her childhood in Africa through many difficulties to her aeronautic and literary achievements.
This definitive guide to finding a literary agent has been fully updated and revised for the 1998 writers' market. Debby Mayer explores the characteristics of a successful agent-writer relationship, and explains the agent's role in matching the author with an appropriate publishing house and editor; interpreting legal papers and royalty ...
Winner of the 2001 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction "This novel's poignancy, I think, comes from the paradoxical confrontation between innocence and experience these Asian strivers are caught in-at the same time that they are rendered childlike by ignorance of their new culture, we know they have been singed and seared, and therefore secretly ...
A novel about three generations of difficult, principled people: Gerta Stein, a brilliant lawyer, her returned prodigal "flower child" daughter Renata, and Renata's daughter Tippy, who represents a second chance for each.
The Whole Word Catalogue 1, T&W's original collection of practical assignments for motivating student writing, includes many activities designed to help students discover that putting pen to paper can be fun, such as personal writing, collective novels, diagram stories, fables, spoofs, parodies, language games, and lots more.
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