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Bad and Stupid Girl
Av Jean McGarry
E-bok, 2009
466 kr
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Siri is a legacy admission, rich and spoiled and destined to flunk out of her freshman year at college. Esther, her roommate, is a scholarship student from humble means, brilliant and driven to succeed. Brought together by chance, the girls soon become partners in a struggle to find their way in a …
Home at Last
Av Jean McGarry
Häftad, 1994
440 kr
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"Home" is the unnamed goal in this collection whose characters are somehow always searching for that ideal state of calm and warmth and perfect tolerance. Of course, that dream is quite unlike the hard world of Providence, where these dreamers really live - a world of wary neighbours and vague …
Airs of Providence
Av Jean McGarry
Häftad, 2000
476 kr
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Providence -- a city named in the hope that a direct compliment to God might place Him under some sort of obligation to its inhabitants -- provides Jean McGarry with the fertile ground of her comic and gritty, harsh and touching cycle of stories. Weaving in and out of Airs of Providence is o …
So the Story Goes
Twenty-Five Years of the Johns Hopkins Short Fiction Series
Av John T. Irwin, Jean McGarry
Häftad, 2005
392 kr
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Since its founding in 1979, the Johns Hopkins Poetry and Fiction series has published forty volumes of short fiction, beginning with Guy Davenport's acclaimed Da Vinci's Bicycle. The series was launched with two guiding principles: to publish works of short fiction exhibiting formal excellence and …
No Harm Done
Av Jean McGarry
Häftad, 2017
232 kr
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A collection of fifteen stories, Jean McGarry’s No Harm Done, depicts family life at its worst, best, and funniest, as if the author had conjoined the lunacy of Cold Comfort Farm with the bitter grievances of Dubliners. As the author writes in “Strong Boy,” this might be “…because every family, …
Bad and Stupid Girl
Av Jean McGarry
Inbunden, 2006
485 kr
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Siri is a legacy admission, rich and spoiled and destined to flunk out of her freshman year at college. Esther, her roommate, is a scholarship student from humble means, brilliant and driven to succeed.Brought together by chance, the girls soon become partners in a struggle to find their way in a …
Dream Date
Stories
Av Jean McGarry
Häftad, 2002
255 kr
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Jean McGarry has been praised for her "deft, comic, and devastatingly precise portraits" ( New York Times Book Review) and as "a writer who honors the human condition" ( Baltimore Sun). In her new collection of stories, Dream Date, she focuses her skills as a "gifted observer" ( Publishers Weekly) …
So the Story Goes
Twenty-Five Years of the Johns Hopkins Short Fiction Series
Av John T. Irwin, Jean McGarry
Inbunden, 2005
337 kr
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Since its founding in 1979, the Johns Hopkins Poetry and Fiction series has published forty volumes of short fiction, beginning with Guy Davenport's acclaimed Da Vinci's Bicycle. The series was launched with two guiding principles: to publish works of short fiction exhibiting formal excellence and …
Ocean State
Av Jean McGarry
Inbunden, 2010
307 kr
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The stories of Ocean State roll over the reader like a wave. Family pleasures, marriage, the essential moments and mysteries of a seemingly ordinary world that break into magical territory before we can brace ourselves-Jean McGarry puts us in life's rough seas with what the New York Times has …
