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11 produkter
In Envy Country
Av Joan Frank
Häftad, 2010
389 kr
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Winner of the 2010 Richard Sullivan Prize in Fiction, Joan Frank's second story collection, In Envy Country, explores the uncertainties and triumphs of women and men in and out of love and marriage, at varying ages and stages of contemporary American life. By turns wry, pained, and amused, In Envy …
Because You Have to
A Writing Life
Av Joan Frank
Häftad, 2012
416 kr
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Part memoir, part handbook, part survey of the contemporary literary scene, Joan Frank's Because You Have To: A Writing Life is a collection of essays that, taken together, provide a walking tour of the writing life. Frank's aim is to form a coherent vision, one that may provide some communion …
Miss Kansas City
Av Joan Frank
E-bok, 2009
476 kr
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Miss Kansas City is the story of an improbable friendship, set in the tumultuous mid-80s dotcom California, where youthful greed and blinkered innocence arrive intertwined. Friendless and reclusive, Alex Blue commutes two hours each way to a job that serves mainly as a place to bide time, until one …
Try to Get Lost
Essays on Travel and Place
Av Joan Frank
Häftad, 2020
251 kr
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Through the author's travels in Europe and the United States, Try to Get Lost explores the quest for place that compels and defines us: the things we carry, how politics infuse geography, media's depictions of an idea of home, the ancient and modern reverberations of the word 'hotel,' and the …
Late Work
A Literary Autobiography of Love, Loss, and What I Was Reading
Av Joan Frank
Häftad, 2022
231 kr
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Curious, ruminative, and wry, this literary autobiography tours what Rachel Kushner called "the strange remove that is the life of the writer." Frank's essays cover a vast spectrum--from handling dismissive advice, facing the dilemma of thwarted ambition, and copying the generosity that inspires …
All the News I Need
A Novel
Av Joan Frank
Häftad, 2017
342 kr
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All The News I Need probes the modern American response to inevitable, ancient riddles— of love and sex and mortality. Frances Ferguson is a lonely, sharp- tongued widow who lives in the wine country. Oliver Gaffney is a painfully shy gay man who guards a secret and lives out equally lonely days in …
Outlook for Earthlings
Av Joan Frank
E-bok, 2020
130 kr
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THE OUTLOOK FOR EARTHLINGS traces an unusual, difficult friendship across a lifetime, between women of stunningly opposite natures. Melanie Taper is rule-bound, timid, compelled to obey and venerate authority. Yet in unguarded moments she demonstrates such deadly insight into human foibles as to …
Where You're All Going
Av Joan Frank
Häftad, 2020
184 kr
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Buzzfeed News,"15 Small Press Books To Kick Off Your 2020 Reading Season" The Millions, “February Preview: The Millions Most Anticipated” "Death looms in these four sparkling novellas—thus the book’s sly title—but until then there’s the wonder of life. Frank’s subjects include fascinating …
Where You're All Going
Av Joan Frank
E-bok, 2022
168 kr
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Buzzfeed News, "15 Small Press Books To Kick Off Your 2020 Reading Season" The Millions, “February Preview: The Millions Most Anticipated” "Death looms in these four sparkling novellas—thus the book’s sly title—but until then there’s the wonder of life. Frank’s subjects include fascinating …
Miss Kansas City
Av Joan Frank
Inbunden, 2006
485 kr
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Miss Kansas City is the story of an improbable friendship, set in the tumultuous mid-80s dotcom California, where youthful greed and blinkered innocence arrive intertwined.Friendless and reclusive, Alex Blue commutes two hours each way to a job that serves mainly as a place to bide time, until one …
