Beaming Sonny Home

Author : Cathie Pelletier
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402294980
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beaming Sonny Home written by Cathie Pelletier and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The sharp-tongued Mattie...is one of Pelletier's most sublime creations."-Booklist Fortune hasn't been kind to 66-year-old Mattie Gifford. Her mother committed suicide, her husband slept with her best friend, and she can't stand her three selfish daughters. But she does love her son, Sonny, who nevertheless plunges her into deep despair when he takes two women and a poodle hostage in his ex-wife's trailer. Sonny claims to have seen John Lennon's face in an apparition and gets his own mug on the television news. Beaming Sonny Home is a poignant tale of disappointment and a mother's love that stands as a testament to Pelletier's gift for storytelling.

Author : Pelletie
Publisher : Random House Value Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780517310502
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beaming Sonny Home written by Pelletie and published by Random House Value Pub. This book was released on 1998-05-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of A Marriage Made At Woodstockdelivers a funny, poignant novel about the complicated love between a mother and her son. When her wayward boy Sonny takes two women and a poodle hostage in his ex-wife's trailer, Mattie finds herself at the center of a drama that has the whole nation glued to their TV's.

Author : Cathie Pelletier
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402294832
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funeral Makers written by Cathie Pelletier and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A crazy, rollicking whoop of a book, written with a poet's sensibility and deeply wacky down-home wisdom."-Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls A century after the impulsive McKinnon brothers set out to tame the Canadian wilderness and instead landed in Mattagash, Maine, their madcap legacy reigns supreme. It's 1959, and Pearl and Sicily McKinnon have gathered to plan a funeral for Marge, their older sister dying from the rare disease beriberi, thanks to her eccentric diet. Pearl, who skipped town with big-city dreams only to marry a funeral director, soon clashes with the long-suffering Sicily, who herself is coping with an unfaithful husband. To make matters worse, Sicily's teenage daughter is lusting after the town's blackest sheep, a ne'er-do-well twice her age. Brimming with darkly quirky humor and irresistible spunk, The Funeral Makers explores the inescapable ironies of American life and family dynamics and captures the spirit of a world that is as once familiar and quickly fading from view.

Author : Wen-hsing Wang
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824862481
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Catastrophe written by Wen-hsing Wang and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wang Wen-hsing caused a sensation in Taiwan in 1972 with publication of Family Catastrophe, his first full-length novel. Many critics were outraged, called it socially irresponsible, morally corrupt, and stylistically irrational, but the novel weathered its controversial reception to become what is now widely regarded as a masterpiece in modern Chinese fiction and the benchmark of Taiwan’s Modernist movement. Often described as Joycean, Family Catastrophe is significant for its stylistic and linguistic experimentation as well as for its disturbing and universal themes. It appears now in English for the first time.

Author : Linda Parent Lesher
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476603898
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best Novels of the Nineties written by Linda Parent Lesher and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader’s guide provides uniquely organized and up-to-date information on the most important and enjoyable contemporary English-language novels. Offering critically substantiated reading recommendations, careful cross-referencing, and extensive indexing, this book is appropriate for both the weekend reader looking for the best new mystery and the full-time graduate student hoping to survey the latest in magical realism. More than 1,000 titles are included, each entry citing major reviews and giving a brief description for each book.

Author : Nancy Pearl
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
ISBN 13 : 1570616590
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book Lust written by Nancy Pearl and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterateurs with "What If All (name the city) Read the Same Book," has devised reading lists that cater to every mood, occasion, and personality. These annotated lists cover such topics as mother-daughter relationships, science for nonscientists, mysteries of all stripes, African-American fiction from a female point of view, must-reads for kids, books on bicycling, "chick-lit," and many more. Pearl's enthusiasm and taste shine throughout.

Author : Michael Lackey
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1626741719
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Jay Parini written by Michael Lackey and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jay Parini (b. 1948) is best known for his novel about Leo Tolstoy's last year, The Last Station, which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and made into a Hollywood film. But he has also published numerous volumes of poetry; biographies of William Faulkner, Robert Frost, and John Steinbeck; novels; and literary and cultural criticism. This book contains the most important interviews with the former Guggenheim fellow; former Fowler Hamilton Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford; and former fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of London. Parini's work is valuable not just because of its high quality and intellectual range. Parini's life and writings often seem like a seminar table, with friends gathered, talking and trading stories. He has openly written poems in conversation with writers he knew personally: Robert Penn Warren, Gore Vidal, Jorge Luis Borges, and others. He has, in his own life, kept an ongoing conversation with many literary friends over the years—Alastair Reid, Seamus Heaney, Anne Stevenson, Ann Beattie, Julia Alvarez, Peter Ackroyd, A. N. Wilson, and countless others. These interviews offer a more comprehensive understanding of Parini's work as a poet, scholar, public intellectual, literary critic, intellectual historian, biographer, novelist, and biographical novelist. More importantly, these interviews will contribute to our understanding of the history of ideas, the condition of knowledge, and the state of literature, all of which Parini has played an important role in shaping.

Author : Janet G. Husband
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838909671
Total Pages : 793 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sequels written by Janet G. Husband and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

Author : Cathie Pelletier
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584654872
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Running the Bulls written by Cathie Pelletier and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beloved novelist returns, once again deftly combining the poignant and the hilarious.

Author : Hope Apple
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313095981
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Be Continued written by Hope Apple and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-10-10 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keeping track of prolific authors who write fiction series was quite challenging for even the most ardent fan until To Be Continueddebuted in 1995. Noew, readers will be happy that the soon-to-be-released second edition has added 1,600 new books and 400 new series. To Be Continued, Second Edition, maintians the first volume's successful formula that featured concise A-to-Z entries packed with useful information, including titles, publishers, publication dates, genre categories, annotations, and subject terms. Among the genre categories that can be found in To Be Continued are romance, science fiction, crime novel, horror, adventure, fantasy, humor, western, war, Christian fiction, and others.