My Brother Michael

Informationen zum Autor Janis Owens is an award-winning novelist, memoirist, folklorist and storyteller. She is a native of North Florida and graduated from the University of Florida, where she was a student in Harry Crews' creative writing workshop. She is the author of four novels, My Brother Michael, Myra Sims, The Schooling of Claybird Catts, American Ghost, and a memoir cookbook, The Cracker Kitchen. She lives with her husband in rural North Florida and is working on her next novel. Klappentext Winner of the Chatauqua South Award for FictionOut of the shotgun houses and deep, shaded porches of a west Florida mill town comes this extraordinary novel of love and redemption as told by Gabriel Catts. On the eve of his fortieth birthday, Gabe attempts to reconcile a family shattered by his betrayal of his older brother, Michael. As Gabe contends with a host of personal demons, he recounts his lifelong love for his brother's wife, Myra, whose own demons threaten to overwhelm all three of them. Circumstance and passion push them beyond the moral boundaries of their close-knit community in this intimate view of a Southern family.The story told in My Brother Michael is retold in Myra Sims, Janis Owens second novel, from Myras point of view

Product details

• Authors: Janis Owens, Owens Janis
• Publisher: Pineapple press usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2005
• EAN: 9781561643431
• ISBN: 978-1-56164-343-1
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 152 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Fiction: literary and general non-genre