Smiley jane editor (13 Ergebnisse)

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Pages clean, unmarked. Binding square, firm.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good. Clean text. Email for further information.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED2nd printing. Some wear to extremities, else very good.

Zustand: VERY GOOD. 1st trade paperback printing. Among the contributors are Thom Jones, Jaimy Gordon, Jamaica Kincaid, Kate Braverman, Don DeLillo and more. SIGNED on the title page by the editor Jane Smiley, Included are notes on each contributor and a brief commentary by each one on the genesis of that particular short story. xvii, 366 pp. Very good overall - some wear to the covers, including a small peeled spot on front cover, and a few indentations.…

Zustand: NEAR FINE. 1st trade paperback printing. SIGNED by Joy Williams at her story "Honored Guest." Among the other contributors are Thom Jones, Jaimy Gordon, Jamaica Kincaid, Kate Braverman, Don DeLillo, Ellen Gilchrist .Andrea Barrett, Melanie Rae Thon and more. Included are notes on each contributor and a brief commentary by each one on the genesis of that particular short story. xvii, 366 pp. Near fine.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 336 pages. 7.50x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 168 pages. 7.50x4.75x0.58 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. F. University of Missouri, 1998. First edition, first printing. Softbound. New/issued without dust jacket. A clean, tight copy, unread. Smoke-free household. [JH] 0.0.

Zustand: FINE. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) An anthology that looks at things in a fresh way -"Ask a whole bunch of women about their hair, and you could get a history of the world: reflections and revelations about family, race, religion, ritual, culture, motherhood, politics, . . Anne Lamott tells the story of how watching the The Shawshank Redemption was a turning point in her decision to wear dreadlocks . Marita Golden writes about her grief over what so many African American women still endure to obtain Ògood hair.Ó Patricia Volk opens the cabinet under her sink for us--and itemizes her seventeen hair care products, each with a price tag. Anne Kreamer writes about how she came to go gray and love it. Deborah Feldman reveals why she left the Hasidic Jewish community that required her to cover her hair. Myla Goldberg tells of how ill equipped she was to tend the hair of her adopted biracial daughter. And Suleika Jaouad describes the ravages of chemotherapy and the empowerment of shaving designs onto her head" Other contributors include Rebecca Goldstein, Ru Freeman, Hallie Ephron and many more. SIGNED by Jane Smiley at her contribution "At Last I Learn How to Turn Heads." Notes on contributors. 313 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. …

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 336 pages. 7.50x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 151 pages. Selected lectures from writers' conferences on the art and craft of finding a nd using artistic inspiration feature the works of Jane Smiley, Gary Snyder, Mir oslav Holub, and Mary Clearman Blew Review These fourteen thought-provoked essay s originated as lectures delivered at a variety of writers conferences. In Can M others Think?, Jane Smiley addresses the failure of literature to include mother s and argues that such authors as Toni Morrison, Sue Miller, Alice Walker, and L ouise Erdrich are creating a new literature, the literature of real, live mother hood. Gary Snyder, at the Art of the Wild Conference in Squaw Valley, claims tha t like ecosystems, consciousness, mind, imagination, and language are fundamenta lly wild, while over at the Paris Writers Conference, Julian Gloag laments the t entativeness of students who haven't been trained to think. Michael Dennis Brown e proposes that it is a sense of constantly failing to reach perfection that pro pels us to continue writing; Donald Justice, similarly, discusses the elusivenes s of the ideal. Thanks to editor Kurt Brown, we can consume the lean, nourishing meat of the conferences without having first to pick our way through the fat. - -Jane Steinberg From Publishers Weekly This anthology of 14 essays, first delive red as lectures at several writers' conferences around the country, contains som e wisdom and inspiration but lacks coherence. Jane Smiley reflects thoughtfully on the extreme paucity of mothers, and of the tradition of a maternal vision in our literary culture, and suggests that a new literature of real, live motherhoo d is being forged. Christopher Merrill, reporting on a writers' conference in Sl ovenia, finds the famous panelists ignoring the nearby Bosnian war and instead h.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. JOURNAL. A nice, clean copy. Although not marked in any such way, this book came from the library of poet and literary critic J.D. McClatchy, from his estate in Stonington, Connecticut. McClatchy was the Yale Review editor of this issue.