These beautifully crafted stories depict the changing relationships between black and white southerners, the impact of the civil rights movement, and the emergence of the New South.
Mary Ward Brown is a storyteller in the tradition of such powerful 20th-century writers as William Faulkner, Harper Lee, Flannery O'Connor, and Eudora Welty-writers who have explored and dramatized the tension between the inherited social structure of the South and its contemporary dissolution. With Tongues of Flame, her first collection of short stories, Brown bares the awkward, sometimes...
These beautifully crafted stories depict the changing relationships between black and white southerners, the impact of the civil rights movement...
Nebraska Waters is black; Vivian Gold is Jewish. In an Alabama kitchen where, for nearly thirty years, they share cups of coffee, fret over their children, and watch the civil rights movement unfold on the TV screen and out their window, they are like family--almost.
As Nebraska makes her way, day in and day out, to Vivian's home where she cooks and helps tend the Gold children, the bond between the women both strengthens and frays. The "almost" threatens to widen into a great divide.
The two women's husbands affect their relationship, as do their children. This is...
Nebraska Waters is black; Vivian Gold is Jewish. In an Alabama kitchen where, for nearly thirty years, they share cups of coffee, fret over their c...
In 1946, Judith Paterson was just nine years old when her mother died of a virulent combination of alcoholism and mental illness at the age of 31. Sweet Mystery is Paterson's harrowing account of her memories of her mother, told with eloquence and understanding. Set largely in Montgomery, Alabama, the story plays out against a background of relatives troubled almost as much by southern conflicts over race and class as by the fallout from a long family history of drinking, denial, and mental illness. First published in 1996 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Sweet Mystery has received critical...
In 1946, Judith Paterson was just nine years old when her mother died of a virulent combination of alcoholism and mental illness at the age of 31. Swe...
With the 11 stories in this long-awaited collection, Mary Ward Brown once again offers her devoted fans a palette of new literary pleasures. The hallmarks of her style, so finely wrought in the award-winning Tongues of Flame (1986) -- the fully realized characters, her deep sensitivity, a defining sense of place and time -- are back in all their richness to involve and enchant the reader.
All but one of the stories are set in Alabama. They deal with dramatic turning points in the lives of characters who happen to be southerners, many juxtaposed between Old South sensibility and manners and...
With the 11 stories in this long-awaited collection, Mary Ward Brown once again offers her devoted fans a palette of new literary pleasures. The hallm...
A timely new novel evocative of the biblical story of the beheading of John the Baptist by a major American writer.
Hugh Helton, a prosperous attorney in a progressive town, has married his brother's ex-wife, Nora. As Hugh negotiates his relationships with his new spouse, her daughter, Jean, and parish priest Father John Riley, Nora s growing hate for the church into which they were all born and from which they have all lapsed drives her to desperate acts of deceit and manipulation.
Father Riley himself wrestles with his own sense of purpose and mission. But when...
A timely new novel evocative of the biblical story of the beheading of John the Baptist by a major American writer.
The work of Hans Lewy (1904-1988) has had a profound influence in the direc- tion of applied mathematics and partial differential equations, in particular, from the late 1920s. We are all familiar with two of the particulars. The Courant-Friedrichs- Lewy condition (1928), or CFL condition, was devised to obtain existence and ap- proximation results. This condition, relating the time and spatial discretizations for finite difference schemes, is now universally employed in the simulation of solutions of equations describing propagation phenomena. His example of a linear equation with no...
The work of Hans Lewy (1904-1988) has had a profound influence in the direc- tion of applied mathematics and partial differential equations, in partic...
