The Summer Before the Summer of Love: Stories - Couverture rigide

Swick, Marly A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0060172541 ISBN 13 : 9780060172541

Editeur : Harpercollins, 1995

Synopsis

Book by Swick Marly A Swick Marly

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Born in Indianapolis in 1949, Marly Swick spent her childhood moving -- from Massachusetts to Delaware to California -- with book in hand, due to a voracious appetite for reading encouraged by her mother and teachers. She continued her travels and her love for books during her education, receiving her BA from Stanford University, her MA from Mills College, her Ph.D. from the American University, and finally, her MFA at the Iowa Writer's Workshop.

Swick is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a James Michener Award, and an O. Henry Award. Her first book received the Iowa Short Fiction Award. Her stories have appeared in numerous publications, among them The Atlantic, Redbook, and The North American Review. She has just written her first novel, Paper Wings.

Upholding a self-professed "Victorian lifestyle in the 90s," Marly Swick enjoys painting and reading in her spare time. She is currently an Associate Professor of Fiction Writing at the University of Nebraska and lives in Lincoln.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The stories in The Summer Before the Summer of Love seductively combine life's barren sorrow with a sensual fullness. Marly Swick is consistently original and unflinching in her observations of the dynamics between friends and lovers, parents and children, husbands and wives. In "The Other Widow," a grieving mistress meets her deceased lover's wife; in "Crete," a woman who once escaped a grisly murder now finds herself faced with her daughter's death and the fear that her baby's life was taken because her own had been spared; in the title story, a girl goes to a Beatles concert with her mother and sister and faces the tough emotional balancing act posed by her parents' recent separation. In a style that is as exquisite as it is unsentimental, Swick creates a true sense of how people really do live--and love--and does so with grace, intelligence and humor.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harpercollins
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0060172541
• ISBN 13: 9780060172541
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 209