wyszukanych pozycji: 5
![]() |
Long Story Short: Flash Fiction by Sixty-five of North Carolina's Finest Writers
ISBN: 9780807859773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This extraordinary collection gathers short-short stories--none longer than 1,800 words--by some of North Carolina's best contemporary writers, including Doris Betts, Orson Scott Card, Fred Chappell, Sarah Dessen, Haven Kimmel, Robert Morgan, Lee Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, and Daniel Wallace. The stories are compulsively readable. The spellbinding elements of brevity, variety, and surprise conspire to keep readers flipping pages. Comic, tragic, magical, fantastical, provocative, disturbing, luminous, the short-short form proves a reliably elastic and dazzling medium for every writer...
This extraordinary collection gathers short-short stories--none longer than 1,800 words--by some of North Carolina's best contemporary writers, includ...
|
cena:
108,65 zł |
![]() |
27 Views of Greensboro: The Gate City in Prose & Poetry
ISBN: 9780989609210 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
74,66 zł |
![]() |
Adventures in Pen Land: One Writer's Journey from Inklings to Ink
ISBN: 9780826218179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. She invites us along on a raucous tour of soul-sucking jobs, marriage, and a teaching career, with accompanying disquisitions on blasphemous reading preferences, '60s pop culture, writing workshops, and other amusing detours and distractions on the way to publication. She also shares her keen insights into the role of a Southern writer in American literary culture, the experience of writing as a mother, and the process of novel-writing as compared to a lengthy family car trip.
Featuring guest appearances by other writers such as Fred Chappell, Max Steele, and Annie Dillard plus cameos by... She invites us along on a raucous tour of soul-sucking jobs, marriage, and a teaching career, with accompanying disquisitions on blasphemous reading p...
|
cena:
118,46 zł |
![]() |
A Girl's Life: Horses, Boys, Weddings, & Luck
ISBN: 9780807126851 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In pleasant contrast to the recent flood of haunting childhood memoirs, A Girl's Life is about growing up in a functional family, about nurture, serenity, wonderment, and the stabilizing contributions an unencumbered heart makes in the life of an observant child. Marianne Gingher makes the events of a normal girlhood not only engaging but distinctly illuminating and explores rites of passage that are as persuasive in shaping an artist's sensibilities as are privations. A meditation on the comforts of home place and family, A Girl's Life celebrates the last era in America, the 1950s and 1960s,...
In pleasant contrast to the recent flood of haunting childhood memoirs, A Girl's Life is about growing up in a functional family, about nurture, seren...
|
cena:
112,62 zł |
![]() |
Amazing Place: What North Carolina Means to Writers
ISBN: 9781469622392 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Some of us understand place in terms of family and community, landscape, or even the weather. For others, the idea of place becomes more distinct and particular: the sound of someone humming while washing dishes, the musical cadence of a mountain accent, the smell of a tobacco field under the hot Piedmont sun. Some of North Carolina's finest writers ruminate on the meaning of place in this collection of twenty-one original essays, untangling North Carolina's influence on their work, exploring how the idea of place resonates with North Carolinians, and illuminating why the state itself plays...
Some of us understand place in terms of family and community, landscape, or even the weather. For others, the idea of place becomes more distinct and ...
|
cena:
96,12 zł |