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Author |
: Betsey Osborne |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2007-04-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0312342780 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780312342784 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Natural History of Uncas Metcalfe by : Betsey Osborne
"Betsey Osborne . . . has pulled off an astonishing feat. She's written a compelling, elegant tale of nuance and loss with the confidence of a fiction veteran." ---The Philadelphia Inquirer "Osborne writes effortlessly and wisely, plumbing the troubled depths of the seemingly unruffled surface of ‘ordinary' life. . . . This is an auspicious debut by a new and very promising writer." ---The Providence Journal "[A] graceful minuet of a novel . . . Osborne's concerns are gratifyingly complex, the predicaments she orchestrates unusual and suspenseful, her humor lithe, and her insights are keen and provocative." ---Booklist "Writing with the precise and haunting tones of Virginia Woolf, Betsey Osborne creates a compelling a world . . . Uncas Metcalfe is a character for the ages." ---Stephen J. Dubner, author of the New York Times bestseller Freakonomics Uncas Metcalfe is a sixty-five-year-old botany professor from a once prosperous central New York town, whose habitat is changing much too quickly: his wife is ill, his daughter has returned home, and memories of an almost forgotten infidelity have resurfaced. Uncas is rooted in a life of plants and manners. When his routine is upended by the menacing demands of a former student, Uncas finds his comfortably obstinate nature at odds with his family's growing impatience and a newfound, terrifying uncertainty. The Natural History of Uncas Metcalfe follows an unforgettable hero as he struggles to right himself and adapt to changing expectations, even as he approaches the end of his life. Beautifully wrought and wonderfully imagined, the Metcalfe family will linger in your imagination long after the last page. Betsey Osborne graduated from Harvard, attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and has a master of fine arts from Columbia. She has worked at Grand Street, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. She lives in Cranston, Rhode Island. You may visit the author's Web site at www.betseyosborne.com and contact her at [email protected].
Author |
: Peter Selgin |
Publisher |
: Broadview Press |
Total Pages |
: 362 |
Release |
: 2019-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781770487178 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1770487174 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Your First Page: First Pages and What They Tell Us about the Pages that Follow Them by : Peter Selgin
Your First Page is unlike any other craft book on writing. It is based on the premise that practically everything that can go right or wrong in a work of fiction or memoir goes wrong or right on the first page. Those first 300 or so words function like canaries in coal mines, forecasting success or predicting trouble. They establish the crucial bond between writer and reader, setting them off together on a path toward the heart or climax of a story—or they fail to do so. From first pages we stand to learn most of what we need to know to succeed as authors. This new workshop and classroom edition of Your First Page has been revised to better fit the needs of creative writing classrooms and workshops.
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: Melvil Dewey |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 540 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015066122832 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Library Journal by : Melvil Dewey
Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
Author |
: Betsey Osborne |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2006-05-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780312342777 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0312342772 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Natural History of Uncas Metcalfe by : Betsey Osborne
Uncas Metcalfe is a sixty-five-year-old botany professor from a once prosperous central New York town, whose habitat is changing much too quickly: his wife is ill, his daughter has returned home, and an unusual new friendship unexpectedly stirs up memories of an almost forgotten infidelity. Uncas is rooted in a life of plants and manners. When his routine is upended by the menacing demands of a former student, Uncas finds his comfortably obstinate nature at odds with his family's growing impatience and a newfound, terrifying uncertainty. The Natural History of Uncas Metcalfe follows an unforgettable hero as he struggles to right himself and adapt to changing expectations, even as he approaches the end of his life. Beautifully wrought and wonderfully imagined, the intricacies of the Metcalfe family will linger in your imagination long after the last page.
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Total Pages |
: 1252 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X030048037 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Library Journal by :
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Total Pages |
: 812 |
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: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSD:31822034377747 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Publishers Weekly by :
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Total Pages |
: 788 |
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: 2006 |
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: STANFORD:36105122363604 |
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: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
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Total Pages |
: 454 |
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: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015066019673 |
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: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vanity Fair by :
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Total Pages |
: 764 |
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: 2005 |
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: UOM:39015066180400 |
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: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Book Publishing Record by :
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: Louis Atwood Cook |
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Total Pages |
: 642 |
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: 1918 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433081832242 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, 1622-1918 by : Louis Atwood Cook