Harry Danced Divinely: Giffort Street Stories, Schwartz Marian D.

Автор: Schwartz Marian D.
Название: Sara Barefield
ISBN: 0988607689 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780988607682
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 2941.00 р.
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Описание:

Sara wants this baby more than she has ever wanted anything.

Sara has worked her entire life to overcome the name Barefield. To be a Barefield in the rural Virginia county where she grew up means that you are the poorest of the poor, that you are shiftless and untrustworthy, lazy and stupid. Sara has succeeded in proving that she is none of those things. At the age of forty she has a nice apartment, a decent car, and a good job as a school secretary.

Tully Rutland, a Vietnam War veteran who is the father of her baby and the only man Sara has ever loved, dies before she tells him that she's pregnant. The Rutlands have never approved of Sara. She feels that her only choice is to move away so she can make a new life for herself and her baby.

Sara has practically no savings and no one to support her. She knows she will have to go on welfare, but she escaped poverty once and believes she can do it again. But the poverty Sara plunges into after she gives birth is beyond anything she had expected. She never imagined she'd be facing eviction and the possibility of living on the street. Nearly overwhelmed by her situation, she fights for a way out.

"First and foremost, get a box of tissues because you are going to cry and get angry and be dumbfounded all at the same time. When you are done you will want to tell everyone about this book I highly recommend it." Andrea L. Stoekel

From the The Midwest Book Review:

Sara isn't a quitter. She does what is necessary to survive, and the reader goes on this incredible journey with her, accompanying a decent, determined woman as she wends her way through the underside of American life, fighting to achieve her dreams. You'll cheer her on as she tells you her compelling story.

Автор: Schwartz Marian D.
Название: The Writers` Conference
ISBN: 0988607611 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780988607613
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Цена: 3125.00 р.
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Tension and drama run high at this writers' conference, a novel that takes an inside look at the world of traditional publishing, exposing its secrets.

After Laura Belmont finishes writing her first novel she goes to the Clymer Workshop, one of the oldest writers' conferences in the country. Her plan is to make a connection with one of the famous staff authors who will help her get a literary agent.

She soon discovers that most of the people at the conference are attending for the same reason she is there: they want a publishing contract. But the male writers on the staff are more interested in her body than in her manuscript. She goes to creative writing workshops unaware of the literary politics being played in the shadows by the famous authors teaching her--the favors made, the courtesies given, the grudges held. Even an author's wife becomes fair game.

Laura begins to think that she's made an expensive mistake. The only offer she gets comes with a veiled threat. Then something extraordinary happens that makes her change her mind.

"The twists of the plot are unexpected; there is so much information about the realities of the publishing world; and her characters' dark sides and hope breathe life into a well-constructed novel. A great read." Lillian Bloom

Автор: Schwartz Marian D.
Название: Realities
ISBN: 0988607603 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780988607606
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 3125.00 р.
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"The book is by turns humorous, witty, moving, upbeat. Jenny is a warm, sensitive heroine. It's a pleasure to watch her and a privilege to eavesdrop on her thoughts. Highly recommended..." LIBRARY JOURNAL

Jenny Weaver's husband committed suicide. She's spending more time with him now than she did when he was alive.

A year after her husband's suicide, Jenny impulsively moves from the Northeast to California. Her young children adjust to the move, but she does not. She has made only one friend, and she's finding it difficult being a single mother.

In a moment of deep frustration and loneliness, she begins writing to her dead husband, Richard, telling him about her daily life. She holds nothing back, even telling him when she begins a new romance.

Jenny also writes about the past. She looks back at their marriage and family life, and begins to see how it went wrong. As she gets closer to the truth and the past becomes threatening, she decides not to write to him anymore. But she finds it impossible to stop. The answer to their children's question-- "How-and why-did-Daddy-die?"-- is in the past, and she can't hide from the truth forever.

In this intimate, compelling novel, a young widow discovers her own strength and identity after the devastating loss of her husband. Realities was a selection of the Swedish Book-of-the-Month Club.

"The author endows Jenny and her circle with attributes that make them linger in one's memory." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY