Joanna Scott
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Working for the New York Port Authority in the late 1950s under the tutelage of a legendary publicist, Maggie Gleason befriends her boss's newest protg, who goes missing amid rumors about a devastating secret from the p.
Working for the New York Port Authority in the late 1950s under the tutelage of a legendary publicist, Maggie Gleason befriends her boss's newest protégé, who goes missing amid rumors about a devastating secret from the past.
Author
Language
English
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Description
On a summer day in 1946 Sally Werner, the precocious young daughter of hardscrabble Pennsylvania farmers, secretly accepts her cousin's invitation to ride his new motorcycle. Like so much of what follows in Sally's life, it's an impulsive decision with dramatic and far-reaching consequences. Soon she abandons her home to begin a daring journey of self-creation, the truth of which she entrusts only with her granddaughter and namesake, six decades later....
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A girl's coming of age in the strange world of stuffed animals. Peg Griswood lives in the manor of a famous taxidermist, surrounded by staring, silent creatures, looked after by eccentric servants and groundskeepers. Against this background, various human dramas are played out in what is basically a gothic novel of atmosphere. The setting is New York State early this century. By the author of Arrogance.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In 1905, a tourist agent and amateur antiques collector named Armand de Potter mysteriously disappeared off the coast of Greece. His body is never recovered and his wife is left to manage his affairs on her own. But as she starts to piece together his life, she realizes that everything was not as he had said. Infused with details from letters and diary entries, the [book] twists forward and backward through time, revealing a lost world of fake identities,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Joanna Scott, the critically acclaimed author of ten novels and two collections, turns her "incandescent imagination" (Publishers Weekly) back to the craft of the short story, with breathtaking results. Ranging across history from the distant past to the future, Scott tours the many forms our stories can take, from cave wall paintings to radio banter to digitized archives, and the far-reaching consequences of our communications."--Publisher description....
Author
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Language
English
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Description
A "delicately eccentric" collection of stories from the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Binocular Vision (Publishers Weekly).
"Put [Pearlman's] stories besides those of John Updike and Alice Munro. That's where they belong." —Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto
Spanning no fewer than four countries in sixty years, the sixteen buoyant, brilliantly constructed stories...
"Put [Pearlman's] stories besides those of John Updike and Alice Munro. That's where they belong." —Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto
Spanning no fewer than four countries in sixty years, the sixteen buoyant, brilliantly constructed stories...
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Hannah Arendt, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Human Condition, began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heidegger. After her German academic life came to a halt in 1933, Arendt carried her dissertation into exile in France, and years later took the same battered and stained copy to New York.
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