Beginning with a father's dramatic account of the birth of his daughter and ending with an imminent death, this volume presents 20 essays in which writers grapple with being fathers of daughters.
Beginning with a father's dramatic account of the birth of his daughter and ending with an imminent death, this volume presents 20 essays in which wri...
A novel of profound and humane realism, The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts tells the story of a 36-year-old Philadelphia woman whose quiet, working-class life is suddenly shaken by the death of her widowed father and by her younger sister s takeover of the family home. Forced out of the house she has lived in for years, Anna Maye Potts proves to be a person of mettle and integrity, but only gradually does she come to realize her own strength. At the chocolate factory that employs her, she draws closer to a longtime co-worker named Louie, a man twenty years her senior. Louie has his own...
A novel of profound and humane realism, The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts tells the story of a 36-year-old Philadelphia woman whose quiet, working-class...
A masterful memoir of a young boy's passage from childhood to adulthood in a family of privilege torn by dark secrets: alcoholism, mental illness, dysfunction. As a complicated coming of age story, Sweet Dreams charts the journey of DeWitt Henry, well-known author, editor, publisher and educator, in his earliest struggles to find and achieve his own creative destiny. It is what Richard Hoffman calls ..".a remarkable feat of memory delivered in extraordinary prose."
A masterful memoir of a young boy's passage from childhood to adulthood in a family of privilege torn by dark secrets: alcoholism, mental illness, dys...
A series of 21 sketches portraying Wayne, PA, in the 1940s and 1950s through the eyes of DeWitt Henry, award winning novelist, essayist, Emerson Professor, and co-founder of Ploughshares literary magazine.
A series of 21 sketches portraying Wayne, PA, in the 1940s and 1950s through the eyes of DeWitt Henry, award winning novelist, essayist, Emerson Profe...
Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Literature Since his death in Alabama in 1992, the work of American writer Richard Yates has enjoyed a renaissance, culminating in director Sam Mendes s adaption of the novel Revolutionary Road (starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet). Dismembering the American Dream is the first book-length critical study of Yates s fiction. Kate Charlton-Jones argues that to read Yates s tales of disordered lives is to uncover not misery, though the lives he describes are sad ones, but a profound, enriching, and...
Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Literature Since his death in Alabama in 1992, the work of American writer Richard Y...
In contrasting styles and voices, Henry presents a mid-life rancher's protest against aging, a factory foreman's flight from grief, King Kong's seduction by Beauty, a writer's death-defying bungee jump, a police chief's humiliation, and a Philadelphia executive's breakdown during World War II. De Casibus is the lyrical motif.
In contrasting styles and voices, Henry presents a mid-life rancher's protest against aging, a factory foreman's flight from grief, King Kong's seduct...
