The Charmed Life of Flowers: Field Notes from Provence - Couverture souple

Steinbach, Meredith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0988283603 ISBN 13 : 9780988283602

Editeur : House of Remington, 2012

Synopsis

THE CHARMED LIFE OF FLOWERS, winner of the 2013 Paris Book Festival's International General Fiction Category, is Meredith Steinbach's magical tale of Provencal camaraderie and delight. In this post-modern novel set off the beaten path in the vineyards and olive groves of Southern France, Meredith Steinbach reconsiders and reconstructs the components of an old-fashioned fairy tale. When the little albino schoolteacher, Pearl Queneau, seeks refuge in the village of St. X, even the plants and animals transcend their days as textbook entries and come to life for her. Here she falls in love with the proverbial Woodcutter and raises her son in an atmosphere of increasing tolerance and generosity, but for the ill will of a few miscreants who would try to cause them irreparable harm. Brilliant black-and-white photographs of flowers by Mary Tiegreen herald the text along with vintage engravings of flora and fauna from Provence. About the Photographer: Mary Tiegreen is an artist, writer, photographer, and book designer. She was raised in Chicago and studied print-making and graphic design at the University of Iowa. Her work with explorer and archaeologist Milbry Polk on women explorers, WOMEN OF DISCOVERY: A CELEBRATION OF INTREPID WOMEN WHO EXPLORED THE WORLD, with a forward by Christiane Amanpour, depicts the astonishing lives of eighty women explorers from the days of the Vikings to the present. Tiegreen’s WONDERLAND photographs of flowers have been exhibited at the New York Art Club and are in private collections in London, New York, Paris, and Geneva. She currently makes her home in New York with her husband and Golden Retriever pup, with frequent trips to France and the Southwest.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Meredith Steinbach is the author of novels Village with Blue Doors, Beata Rustica: The Tale of the Would-Be Saint, The Charmed Life of Flowers: Field Notes from Provence, The Birth of the World as We Know It; or, Teiresias, Zara, Here Lies The Water, one play, a screenplay, and numerous short stories including the collection Reliable Light. Several novels and another short fiction collection are forthcoming. Prizes and honors have included Winner of the 2013 Paris Book Festival/International General Fiction Category for The Charmed Life of Flowers; Honorable Mention, 2012 New England Book Festival/ General Fiction Category for The Charmed Life of Flowers; Thomas J. Watson Institute Travel Grant for research in France and Greece; the Bunting Fellowship of Radcliffe College at Harvard University; O. Henry Award for the Short Story; 100 Distinguished Stories, Best American Short Stories; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; Pushcart Prize for the Short Story, Rhode Island State Artist's Grants, the University of Iowa Fairall Prize for Fiction Writers, among others. Meredith Steinbach lives on the Rhode Island coast in a sea captain's cottage with her extended family and a great Pyrenees mountain dog and a spin-dancing corgi. She is Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: House of Remington
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0988283603
• ISBN 13: 9780988283602
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 150
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg