Prize for her memoir Clear Spring. Also‚ Shiloh and Other Stories‚ PEN Hemingway Award for first fiction‚ and it was nominated for the PEN Faulkner Award‚ the National Book Critics Circle Award‚ and the American Book Award which was published in 1982. Among many other awards she received a Southern Book Critics Circle Award for "Feather Crowns" and "Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail". Her first book In Country was turned in to a Norman Jewison film starring Bruce Willis and Emily Lloyd. These are only
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Literary Devices My Response References About the Author Amy Bloom (1953) American writer and psychotherapist Written two novels & three collections of short stories Nominee for the National Book Award & the National Book Critics Circle Award Creator‚ co-executive producer & head writer for TV series “State of Mind” Written for The New Yorker‚ Atlantic Monthly‚ The New York Times Magazine Won the National Magazine Award Text Hold Tight (2000) pp. 650-654 Short
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The novel Tracks‚ while an entertaining read‚ is (as I ’ve learned) far more than a simple novel. The book perplexes me with its symbolism and layered and difficult to discern metaphorical references. I am accustomed to reading books wherein characters are simply people‚ birds‚ bears‚ the wind‚ etc. Surprisingly‚ I did "get" the underlying story; Nanapush was telling Lulu about her family her people and what portents the future held for them all but‚ the symbolism was not clear. Only after hour
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Amy Tan From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Personal life Amy Tan was born in Oakland‚ California to Chinese immigrants John Tan‚ an electrical engineer and Baptist minister‚ and Daisy‚ who was forced to leave her three daughters from a previous marriage behind in Shanghai. This incident provided the basis for Tan’s first novel‚ 1989 New York Times bestseller The Joy Luck Club. Amy is the middle child and only daughter among Daisy and John Tan’s three children. In the late 1960s Amy’s sixteen-year-old
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Michael Hemmingson 9700 Gilman Drive PMB 241 La Jolla‚ CA 92093 michaelhemmingson@yahoo.com approx. 2‚300 words My Review of Bill by Vern Myers Michael Hemmingson Bill: A Novella. Vern Myers. NY: Pelican Publishing. 102 pp. Cloth‚ $17.95. Reviewed by Gerald Bass To start‚ I would like you to know that I am writing this book review on an old fashioned manual typewriter‚ an Olympia Model 9 in fact‚ that I purchased at a consignment antique store. I think this
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first American poet to win the £10‚000 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry‚ for his book My Alexandria. The book was also a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the 1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Doty also received a 1994 Whiting Writers’ Award. He has written twelve books of poetry and three memoirs. Firebird told the story of his childhood in the American South and in Arizona. Dog Years was a memoir of the lives of two of his dogs
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During the years of 1965 to 1999‚ McCarthy published eight novels. He has won numerous grants and awards for his writing‚ including a fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters‚ a Guggenheim‚ and the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award. Like William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor‚ McCarthy’s novels “have in common...a rustic and sometimes dark humor‚
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I began working on the material for my memoir‚ A Door in the Ocean‚ many years ago‚ way back in the year 2000. I was deep into the stories that would one day turn into my first fiction collection‚ The End of the Straight and Narrow‚ and back then I believed I was a dyed-in-the-wool fiction writer. I never considered that I had a life worth writing about‚ and like a lot of fiction writers‚ I’d been raised on the idea that nonfiction wasn’t the stuff of literature. There’s a long tradition of such
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& Langley‚The March‚ Billy Bathgate‚ Ragtime‚ the Book of Daniel‚ City of God‚ Welcome to Hard Times‚ Loon Lake‚ World’s Fair‚ The Waterworks‚ and All the Time in the World. Among his honors are the National Book Award‚ three National Book Critics Circle Awards‚ two PEN Faulkner Awards‚ The Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction and the presidentially-conferred National Humanities Medal. In 2009 he was short listed for the Man Booker International Prize honoring a writer’s lifetime achievement in fiction
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campaigns for Romulus Linney’s A Lesson Before Dying. The play‚ which makes a bold and moving statement about the link between learning and dignity‚ is an adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines’ book of the same title‚ which won the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award. Yes‚ members of whose-ever constituency‚ here’s a vote-getting narrative that says in no uncertain terms: It’s not power‚ not position‚ not clothes that makes the man. It’s education. Gaines’ story‚ which Linney simplifies for the stage but
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