She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.įor thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning teaching prizes at Syracuse. Bestselling author and renowned professor Mary Karr offers a master class in the essential elements of great memoir-delivered with her signature wit, insight, and candor.Ĭredited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list.
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And those are two things that tend to get you kicked in the teeth by the world over and over again,” McGuire says. “Dodger is a math prodigy and a smart girl. Dodger, on the other hand, has had a harder time socializing as a result, she is less trusting and keeps to herself. Life is easier for Roger, whose facility with words opens doors. Instead of a hideous monster, her alchemist produces two brilliant siblings, whose rhyming names (Roger, a genius at languages, and Dodger, a math prodigy) belie their potential to control time and space. McGuire sees elements of a “modern Frankenstein” in her novel about a brother and sister created by a ruthless alchemist. 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In the later 20th century, his work found new audiences in citations by self-help authors and frequent quotations in television shows, books and motion pictures. Among English-language readers, his best-known works include two poetry collections: Duino Elegies ( Duineser Elegien) and Sonnets to Orpheus ( Die Sonette an Orpheus), a semi-autobiographical novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ( Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge), and a collection of ten letters published posthumously Letters to a Young Poet ( Briefe an einen jungen Dichter). While Rilke is best known for his contributions to German literature, he also wrote in French. Rilke traveled extensively throughout Europe, finally settling in Switzerland, the inspiration for many of his poems. His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry and several volumes of correspondence. His work is viewed by critics and scholars as possessing undertones of mysticism, exploring themes of subjective experience and disbelief. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), shortened to Rainer Maria Rilke ( German: ), was an Austrian poet and novelist. Select the quantity of the product you desire and click the "Add" button. Read Less Below is a list of products arranged by condition. Yet, after a chance meeting with the handsome Englishman, Tessa's reserve begins to melt, and she starts to wonder if it's not too late for a fairytale ending? Books by Eva Ibbotson Authors like Eva Ibbotson What Should I Read Next. But while the attraction between them in undeniable, Guy's insufferable snob of a fiancée only solidifies Tessa's determination to keep her true identity a secret. 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(My mother, who sort of drips sympathy, said that Billy’s size could explain why he had made it a point to beat up every boy in the sixth grade within a month of moving to our school.) That wasn’t quite as big as it might sound, since everyone in our sixth grade class was taller than Billy, usually by at least six inches. He was big-about a foot and a half taller than Billy. Why was Arnie helping him? Well, until Billy moved to town, Arnie had been our official class bully and kid most likely to spend time in prison. Billy was collecting a list of how many kinds of bugs he could mash in my hair. You know how it is: some people collect stamps, or comic books, or beer bottle caps. Why was Billy Becker squashing a bug against the back of my head? That was me, Rod Allbright, trying to say, “Let me go!”-which wasn’t easy with Arnie sitting on my back and pressing my face into the grass. That was Arnie Markle, providing sound effects for the final moments of the bug Billy was smushing against the back of my head. “Watch out, Pudge-Boy! Here comes number 23!” |