Watch of Nightingales - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Liza Wieland is the author of four previous works of fiction: The Names of the Lost ; Discovering America ; You Can Sleep While I Drive ; and Bombshell , as well as a volume of poems, Near Alcatraz . Her work has been awarded two Pushcart Prizes, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, and the North Carolina Arts Council. She teaches creative writing and literature at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. Klappentext A sharply written piece of fiction that combines memories we all have of attending school with hot-button issues ranging from culture clash to school politics to homosexuality Zusammenfassung A modest! quiet woman! Mara Raynor never dreamed she'd one day find herself in charge of the small private school in Washington! DC! where for many years she taught music and choir. But after the unexpected death of her husband! the school's headmaster! Mara finds herself thrust into the public eye.

Product details

• Authors: Liza Wieland
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.12.2008
• EAN: 9780472116720
• ISBN: 978-0-472-11672-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 248 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Michigan Literary Fiction Awar; Michigan Literary Fiction Awards; Michigan Literary Fiction Awar; Michigan Literary Fiction Awards
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature