Read This and Tell Me What It Says - Stories

Informationen zum Autor A. Manette Ansay is the author of eight books, including Vinegar Hill , Midnight Champagne (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and Blue Water . She has received the Pushcart Prize, two Great Lakes Book Awards, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches in the MFA writing program at the University of Miami. Klappentext Here are the lives of rural people struggling to make sense of the isolated and often intensely religious worlds in which they live. Marie, a young wife and mother, recalls the effects of a statutory rape trial on her small community. Stuart, a devout teenage boy, dares to rename himself "Start, " the only significant thing he has ever done without first consulting God. Widowed Eliza discovers her husband's ghost in the bathroom, flipping through pages of the Popular Mechanics magazines she had thrown out after his death. Zusammenfassung In her first full-length story collection! author A. Manette Ansay explores the rural Midwest landscape and the people who inhabit it: ordinary folk with extraordinary inner lives! struggling to make sense of the isolated! sometimes painful! and often intensely religious worlds in which they live. Her are 15 haunting and exquisitely written tales that offer a rare and unforgettable glimpse into the complexities of being human and being alive.

Product details

• Authors: A Manette Ansay, A. Manette Ansay, Ansay A. Manette
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1998
• EAN: 9780380730773
• ISBN: 978-0-380-73077-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Romance / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), FICTION: Small Town & Rural *, FICTION: Christian / Romance / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Christian / General, FICTION: Nature & the Environment, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Medieval, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary