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13 produkter
My Life As a Silent Movie
A Novel
Häftad, 2013
282 kr
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After losing her husband and daughter in an auto accident, 42-year-old Emma flies to Paris, discovers she has a twin brother whose existence she had not known about, and learns that her birth parents weren't the Americans who raised her, but a White Russian film star of the 1920s and a French …
Building Fiction
How to Develop Plot and Structure
Häftad, 2003
226 kr
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Jesse Lee Kercheval builds a work of fiction just as an architect would design a house - with an eye for details and how all parts of a story interconnect. Even with the most dynamic language, images and characters, no piece of fiction will work without a strong infrastructure. Kercheval shows how …
Museum of Happiness
A Novel
Häftad, 2003
236 kr
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After her husband's death, Ginny Gillespie travels with his ashes to Paris, where she meets and falls in love with Roland Keppi, a strange, visionary man without a country. But when Roland is deported to a German camp for people without identity papers, their dreamlike affair is disrupted.
Alice Stories
Inbunden, 2007
399 kr
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Wisconsin is not where Alice, a girl raised in Florida, meant to end up. But when she falls in love with Anders Dahl, a descendant of Norwegian farmers born for generations in the same stone farmhouse, she realizes that to love Anders is to settle into a life in Wisconsin in the small house they …
Cinema Muto
Häftad, 2009
176 kr
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This book celebrates the golden age of silent cinema. In ""Cinema Muto"", Jesse Lee Kercheval examines the enduring themes of time, mortality, and love as revealed through the power of silent film. Following the ten days of the annual Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Italy, this collection of …
Dog Angel
Poems
Häftad, 2004
297 kr
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Jesse Lee Kercheval writes with wit, vivid language, and devastating honesty in these autobiographical poems. Tracing the timelines of her life forward and backward, she offers a moving examination of the role of family and the possible/probable/hoped for existence of God—and how our perceptions of …
I Want to Tell You
Poems
Häftad, 2023
268 kr
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In Jesse Lee Kercheval’s sixth collection, I Want to Tell You, her searching, incantatory poems speak directly and forcefully to the reader in a voice that is by turns angry, elegiac, wry, or witty but always sharply alive. Crossing through the bewildering territory of grief, Kercheval argues with …
Fierce Voice / Voz Feroz
Contemporary Women Poets from Argentina and Uruguay
Av Jesse Lee Kercheval, Curtis Bauer m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
347 kr
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A bilingual anthology, Fierce Voice / Voz feroz features Argentine and Uruguayan women poets published after their countries' return to democracy in the eighties. These twenty-six poets introduced innovative, invigorating styles and established new directions in literature, providing an essential …
America that island off the coast of France
Häftad, 2019
231 kr
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America that island off the coast of France hurtles across literary and linguistic borders, toward a lyricism that slows down experience to create a new form of elegiac memoir. Born in France, raised in Florida, Jesse Lee Kercheval now divides her time between the U.S. and Uruguay. Her poems speak …
Space
A Memoir
Häftad, 2014
290 kr
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Jesse Lee Kercheval opens her story in Cocoa, Florida, in 1966 as a precocious ten-year-old whose family—father, mother, two little girls—is trying to ride the Space Race’s tide of optimism. But even as the rockets keep going up, the Kercheval family slowly spirals down.
Underground Women
Häftad, 2019
218 kr
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A newlywed gazes upon the wreckage of the Titanic. A young woman becomes the protégé of a Parisian hotelier. An old woman meets an angel in a ghost town. Underground Women is a compilation of short stories by multitalented writer Jesse Lee Kercheval. The heart of the volume is a reissue of …
América Invertida
An Anthology of Emerging Uruguayan Poets
Häftad, 2016
315 kr
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América invertida introduces twenty-two Uruguayan poets under the age of forty to English-speaking audiences for the first time. Kercheval paired poets and translators to produce a rich volume based on a multicultural dialogue about poetry and the written word. América invertida presents Spanish …
