Creek Walk and Other Stories

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 oct 1998

A collection of fourteen haunting stories introduces a series of women struggling not only to define their identity and a sense of personal purpose, but also to make themselves heard in a world that more often than not ignores them. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780684852874
ISBN-10: 068485287X
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 142 x 218 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Scribner

Notă biografică

Molly Giles, with her keen eye and ear for a story, is soon to be an acclaimed writer of our times. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Giles's first collection, Rough Translations, received the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and was published by the University of Georgia Press (1985). This same work also received the Boston Globe Award and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for Fiction. She has won numerous other writing awards, including a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award and a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Award.Ms. Giles's fiction has been widely published in journals and magazines, including Redbook, San Francisco Review of Books Literary Supplement, New England Review, and Five Fingers Review.
She won the National book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Book Reviewing in 1991. Her book reviews have appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Jose Mercury News.
She has a masters degree in English and is an associate professor at San Francisco State University. Acknowledged by her well-known students for her keen eye and ear for a story and for her writing abilities, Giles has also taught such bestselling novelists as Amy Tan and Gus Lee in writing workshops. She lives in Woodacre, California.

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This evocative collection of 14 stories introduces women struggling to make their voices heard amid the cacophony of everyday life. Molly Giles portrays women blessed with the delightful ability to pick up and go on . . . even if it's in the wrong direction.

Cuprins

Contents
War
Leaving the Colonel
Talking to Strangers
The Writers' Model
The Language Barrier
Cruise Control
Smoke and Mirrors
Beginning Lessons
The Blessed Among Us
Creek Walk
Maximum Security
Survival in the Wilderness
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
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