The Collected Works of Mavis Hopgood

Langue : anglais

Edité par Writers Group Aug 2023, 2023

0999797549 / 9780999797549

Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, AllemagneAHA-BUCH GmbH

Vendeur avec une évaluation de 5 étoiles

Vendeur AbeBooks depuis 14 août 2006

Livre broché

Etat: Neuf

EUR 32,91

EUR 35,00 expédition 
Expédition depuis Allemagne vers Etats-Unis

Quantité disponible : 2 disponibles

Ajouter au panier
Retours gratuits sous 30 jours

A propos de cet article

Neuware - She lives in the desert a few miles outside Barstow in an old Airstream trailer. In the dirt off the side of the Airstream there's a small table with two foldout wooden chairs shaded by a big umbrella. When I pull up, she rises from one of the chairs and steps out into the sun. Tall, the muscles in her arms and legs defined in the way of an athlete, lean, dressed in pastel blue shorts and a sleeveless yellow top, she's still a striking woman for being in her sixties. There's a dancer's fluid and suggestive grace in the way she moves that echoes her years as a Las Vegas showgirl in her twenties and thirties. Her skin wears a smooth and even desert tan. Her hair, a soft faded red in the late morning sunlight, is loose and moves in cadence with her walk. This is Mavis Hopgood, the author of this itinerant collection of 29 stories, short prose pieces, anecdotes, and poems that come from different places and events of what she calls the pinball life she has lived across the country. In 'Oasis' there's the tragic portrait of Katy, once a lawyer, now a bartender in a dive bar with its circle of regulars n a field of oil refineries. In 'The China Doll' there's Frankie, a New York trumpet player on his way to a gig in L.A. who stops in Salt Lake for lunch and an attempt to reconcile with his recently widowed father. There's the Pushcart Prize story 'Utah Died for Your Sins.' In 'City of Uncles' a young soldier on his way to another assignment wanders a blue collar neighborhood yearning to finally come off the road and find belonging and permanence . There are Brazilian wolves. There's a magic radio in a 1953 Buick Roadmaster. There's winter in an upstate town and anecdotes about what people did to stay sane in 25 feet of snow. There's a dying refrigerator. There's Pearlita who works in a dashboard factory in the midwest. Jimmy, a street guy from the South, who keeps his New York neighborhood honest. The poems in her collection are equally wide ranging and surprising in style, range, and subject. There are lighthearted poems about a dying refrigerator and . Powerful purely imagistic poems like 'After You Set Your Head on Fire' and 'A Woman's Ass Is a Sometime Wondrous Moment.' Love poems like 'That You Will Awaken ' and 'Asking for Nothing.' In 'Newly Wed' a young freshly married couple can't wait to get home from work to do what a priest gave them the right to do. After fifteen years in Vegas, dancing in one casino hotel after another, she realized there was more to life than doing leg kicks in a chorus line. She wanted to let her life just happen. Let life come at her. Let it be spontaneous. Let its path be accidental, like the ball in a pinball machine, sent off in new directions with new possibilities one bumper or flipper to the next. Sometimes the bumpers hurt. Sometimes the flippers were mean. But there was always another bumper. Always another flipper. And usually there was a man involved. The pieces in her collection reflect the expanse, diversity, unpredictability, and poetic courage of that life. She has always loved writing. Whether the occasional poem, brief prose piece, or short story, it has been the one consistent and indestructible attribute of who she is. The one attribute that has never been accidental but has always held steady. From the slimness of this collection you can tell that she'd written only intermittently. She was always on the move. But writing held everything together for her.…

N° de réf. du vendeur 9780999797549

Titre
The Collected Works of Mavis Hopgood
Auteur
Max A Zimmer
Éditeur
Writers Group Aug 2023
Année de publication
2023
État de l'article
Neu
Reliure
Taschenbuch
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0999797549
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780999797549
Poids de l'article
231 grammes
Dimensions
216x140x10 mm

AHA-BUCH GmbH

Einbeck, Allemagne

Vendeur avec une évaluation de 5 étoiles

Vendeur AbeBooks depuis 14 août 2006

Frais d'expédition de Allemagne vers Etats-Unis

Article7 à 10 jours ouvrés5 à 7 jours ouvrés
Premier articleEUR 35,00EUR 45,00
Les délais de livraison sont fixés par les vendeurs et varient en fonction du transporteur et du lieu. Les commandes transitant par les douanes peuvent être retardées et les acheteurs sont responsables de tous les droits ou frais associés. Les vendeurs peuvent vous contacter au sujet de frais supplémentaires afin de couvrir toute augmentation des coûts d'expédition de vos articles.

Modes de paiement

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Carte Bleue
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • Chèque
  • Paypal
  • Virement bancaire

Description de la boutique

Das Unternehmen AHA-BUCH GmbH: Seit der Gründung von AHA-BUCH im Juli 2005 ist unser Hauptziel, zufriedenen Kunden so schnell und so preisgünstig wie möglich ihren Bücherwunsch zu erfüllen. Unsere Firma beschäftigt 16 Mitarbeiter, die nur ein Ziel kennen: den Kunden und seine Wünsche! Auf über 3700 m2 Fläche haben wir über 100.000 Bücher, Modernes Antiquariat und Spiele auf Lager.

Spécialité

Kinderbücher & Kinderhör Casetten, German Books, Software, Natur & Tiere, Ratgeber, Sachbücher, Englische Bücher, Medizin & Gesundheit, Universität & Studium

Profil professionnel du vendeur

AHA-BUCH GmbH

Garlebsen 48
Einbeck, Allemagne 37574