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Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Fiction
A biographical encyclopedia of American and British Christian-themed writers from World War II to the present, covering acclaimed literary works and popular evangelical fiction. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Fiction offers 90 alphabetically organized entries covering the field�s most important writers. Each entry includes a brief biography, religious and educational background, a survey of major works and themes, and a summary of critical response, as well as a bibliography of major works and criticism.
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Buffalo Gal
This vibrant memoir about growing up in upstate New York during the 1970s shares the humorous ups and downs of the Pedersen family. Combining laugh-out-loud humor with a genuine slice of social history,New York Timeswriter Laura Pedersen paints a vivid portrait of an era.
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Conversations with Percival Everett
For the first eighteen years of his career, Percival Everett (b.
1956) managed to fly under the radar of the literary establishment.
He followed his artistic vision down a variety of unconventional
paths, including his preference for releasing his books through
independent publishers. But with the publication of his novel
erasure in 2001, his literary talent could no longer be
kept under wraps. The author of more than twenty-five books,
Everett has established himself as one of America's-and arguably
the world's-premier twenty-first-century fiction writers. Among his
many honors since 2000 are Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards for
erasure and I Am Not Sidney Poitier (2009) and
three prominent awards for his 2005 novel Wounded -the PEN
Center USA Literary Award for Fiction, France's Prix Lucioles des
Libraires, and Italy's Premio Vallombrosa Gregor von Rezzori Prize.
Interviews collected in this volume-several of which appear in
print or in English translation for the first time-display
Everett's abundant wit as well as the independence of thought that
has led to his work being described as \"characteristically
uncharacteristic.\" At one moment he speaks with great
sophistication about the fact that African American authors are
forced to overcome constraining expectations about their subject
matter that white writers are not. And in the next he talks about
training mules or quips about \"Jim Crow,\" a pet bird Everett had on
his ranch outside Los Angeles. Everett discusses race and gender,
his ecological interests, the real and mythic American West, the
eclectic nature of his work, the craft of writing, language and
linguistic theory, and much more.
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Fiction ruined my family
\"A deeply funny and bittersweet memoir of having grown up in an eccentric family of faded wealth and gentility (think shades of Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums) in which the father's failed dreams of being a writer put the family in the poor-house, drove the mother to weepy alcoholism, and provided Jeanne with a highly unusual approach to life--and a wicked sense of humor\"--Provided by publisher.
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Contemporary Fictions of Attention
With the supposed shortening of our attention spans, what future is there for fiction in the age of the internet? Contemporary Fictions of Attention rejects this discourse of distraction-crisis which suggests that the future of reading is in peril, and instead finds that contemporary writers construct ‘fictions of attention’ that find some value in states or moments of inattention. Through discussion of work by a diverse selection of writers, including Joshua Cohen, Ben Lerner, Tom McCarthy, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, and David Foster Wallace, this book identifies how fiction prompts readers to become peripherally aware of their own attention. Contemporary Fictions of Attention locates a common interest in attention within 21st-century fiction and connects this interest to a series of debates surrounding ethics, temporality, the everyday, boredom, work, and self-discipline in contemporary culture.
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Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950
Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland, and Canada to reflect on the transitional state of girlhood between childhood and adulthood.
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The Legal Thriller from Gardner to Grisham
This book offers a critically informed yet relaxed historical overview of the legal thriller, a unique contribution to crime fiction where most of the titles have been written by professionals such as lawyers and judges.
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