Twenty well-known women--Maxine Hong Kingston, Rosellen Brown, Lois Lowry, and Kathryn Harrison, among them--reveal what the idea of home means to them.
Twenty-eight powerful and individual voices are heard as Pearlman and Henderson offer a forum for a generous cross-section of the women writing fiction in America today -- writers whose vital statistics cross the borders of race, religion, ethnic origin, sexual preference, marital status, age, geography, and lifestyle. Each writer is presented in ...
In this book, Mickey Pearlman listens to the voices of women who write. Some, like Grace Paley, Fay Weldon and Jane Smiley, have numerous admirers. Others - Janette Turner Hospital and Jessica Hagedorn - are just now achieving recognition. Novelists, short-story writers, poets and writers of non-fiction - twenty voices in all - talk candidly about ...
Friendship--that mysterious dynamic that unites people--has inspired enduring works of literature from Aristotle to Emerson. In this new collection of original essays, twenty of America's finest women writers explore this subject with honesty, generosity, and a distinctly contemporary eye.
Novelists, short story writers, poets, and writers of nonfiction talk candidly about childhood, religion, the transformation of memory, and why they chose to write in a particular genre. Contributors include Cynthia Kadohata, Lois Lowry, Sue Miller, Anne Rice, Jame Smiley, and Fay Weldon. Photos.
In this engaging and lively collection of conversational profiles, 28 powerful and individual voices reflect on what inspires, directs, infuriates, and sustains them in what they do. Includes conversations with Diane Johnson, Louise Erdich, M.F.K. Fisher, Gloria Naylor, Amy Tan, Joyce Carol Oates and more. 28 photographs.
Ten women writing fiction in America today -- Toni Cade Bambara, Joan Didion, Louise Erdrich, Gail Godwin, Mary Gordon, Alison Lurie, Joyce Carol Oates, Jayne Anne Philips, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, and Mary Lee Settle -- represent that geographic, ethnic, and racial diversity that is American. Their differing perspectives on literature and the ...
Pearlman, editor of Listen to Their Voices (1993) and A Voice of One's Own (not reviewed), has a talent for rustling up the most interesting guests for her literary salons. This new collection of essays, centering on the nature of friendship, and its importance in these women writers' lives, is no exception. What are friends for? How does one find ...
Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an ...
This collection of ten essays by American and Canadian scholars provides an engaging appraisal of Canada's contemporary women writers at work. Who is the Canadian woman writer? What themes unify the remarkable women writers who have emerged in Canada and occupy so prominent a position in the literary landscape? These questions are addressed here ...
This collection examines how women who write have dealt with the relationships of motherhood and daughterhood. It questions why the mother is so often portrayed in current American literature as a viscious destroyer rather than the traditional saintly figure.
The startling prevalence of Hannah/Anna/Anne moves from biblical literature, to classics, to contemporary and popular fiction, children's literature, and films. Here 22 essayists rise to the challenge, examining Annas in individual literary works or making intriguing connections.
We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.
