Bag Lady: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems - Couverture souple

O'Dell, Nan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0952157926 ISBN 13 : 9780952157922

Editeur : Fledgling Press, 2001

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

These are amazing stories - slices of life, captured in easy words, that slip you swiftly into the heights and lows of human lives. Some of them are obviously wildly fictional - it is not often that reporters bring back tales from heaven. Others are more subtly fictional, with ordinary human tragedies and anxieties suddenly twisted into the extraordinary by a fertile imagination; or just running on in the very ordinariness of dull human success or failure. Epic episodes of life. The poems are more whimsical, with many delightful touches. They feel like a bonus, a light sorbet between the rich courses of the main meal of dishy stories. Dip into this collection of short stories and Poems on a wide range of subjects: Humor (A bird like Phoenix), Young love (I Will Give You Orchids), married love (Starting over), and grandmother love (Hannah and the whistling Gran); tragedy (Behind the door), murder (Waiting for William), Homosexuality (McGinty and the boys), incest (The Mole on Carol's Ear), and divorce (Second time around); Faith (Amazing Grace), immortality (Ultima Thule), poverty (Bag lady), insanity (Forget me not), and cancer (If I should die). Travel from Edinburgh in 1930 (Paradise lost) to Chicago in 1948 (Strangers in paradise) to The Altiplano of South America today (Cristina and the Condor) on a magic carpet of words by a writer who can transport you into other minds in other worlds.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Nan O'Dell was born in 1925 in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1948 she moved to Chicago, where she met Glenn and married him. In 1979 they moved to Edinburgh, her beloved home. Nan had successful careers as wife, mother, grandmother, Antique dealer, instructor and lecturer, but her first love was writing. She started as a child writing poems & plays. Through the years she wrote many short stories, and finally the novel, Stella Maris. She was teaching creative writing classes in Edinburgh when she became blind in 1995. She died in 1999.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Fledgling Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0952157926
• ISBN 13: 9780952157922
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248