Jane among Friends - Couverture souple

Barnes, Gregory A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1974301869 ISBN 13 : 9781974301867

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Jane Among Friends is a comic novel that nonetheless addresses a serious Quaker question. Its protagonist is an older American woman who, after burying her famous English husband on their Kenyan estate, embarks on new entrepreneurial adventures.The novel takes the form of letters from Jane to Hazel Tennington, her childhood friend from Baltimore, in which she feels free (sometimes tactlessnessly) to express her inmost thoughts. In the course of relating life events and interactions with the precocious primate Chulk, she comments on her marriage, on men in general, on her somewhat challenged son, and on her dear if headstrong daughter-in-law, not to mention life, death, nature, nurture, God, interspecies relations and the afterlife. As a Quaker, Jane abhors violence—an irony, son Jack points out, on a cattle farm whose chief income is supplied by a busy abattoir. Jane views such inconsistencies as questions to be held in the light. Jane among Friends will appeal to animal lovers and to feminists, as well as to Quakers who enjoy an amusing threshing session. It’s a comedy, so despite pratfalls or untoward (and even violent) events, all comes right in the end.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gregory A. Barnes, a Quaker long resident in Philadelphia, has published fiction about Africa since his service there among the pioneering Peace Corps programs.  His early publications include a novella, A Wind of Change, as well as several short stories, a collection of which will be published with FriendsPress in 2018.      Following Ph.D studies at the University of Wisconsin and a career as English teacher, university administrator, and author of academic texts, he turned to writing about Quaker activists and Quaker history, most recently (2016) A Centennial History of the American Friends Service Committee.      In Jane among Friends, he combines his experience in Africa with his Quaker leadings.  His book will also appeal to feminists and animal lovers.      Barnes now lives in Philadelphia's oldest neighborhood, at the experimental Quaker-based retirement community Friends Riverfront, with his wife Yoko and ten other like-minded seniors.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1974301869
• ISBN 13: 9781974301867
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 242
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne