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Author : Kaye Gibbons
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616203023
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.
Author : Kaye Gibbons
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781565127005
Two unforgettable characters, Jack Ernest Stokes, known as Blinking Jack, and his wife, Ruby Pitt Woodrow Stokes, tell the story of their years together. Jack was forty and Ruby only twenty when they were married. For twenty-five years they lived together, man and wife, until Ruby died of lung cancer. A LITERARY GUILD AND DOUBLEDAY BOOK CLUB selection.
Author : Kaye Gibbons
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0151012040
A sequel to the now-classic "Ellen Foster" picks up Ellen's life five years later, at 15, with a new mother, a home, a mind too large for her surroundings, and a brave and compassionate integrity.
Author : Kaye Gibbons
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1993-03-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101174647
Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women
Author : Kaye Gibbons
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781565126909
A story that traces the bonds between four generations of resourceful Southern women through stories passed from one generation to another.
Author : Kaye Gibbons
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780060797157
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Ellen Foster,Kaye Gibbons paints intimate family portraits in lyrical prose, using as her palette the rich, vibrant colors of the American South. Sights Unseen shows the author at her most passionate and heartfelt best -- an unforgettable tale of unconditional love, and of a family's desperate search for normalcy in the midst of mental illness. It is a novel of rare poignancy, wit, and evocative power -- the story of the relationship between Hattie Barnes and her emotionally elusive mother, Maggie, known by their neighbors as "that Barnes woman with all the problems." This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Author : Kaye Gibbons
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Historical fiction
ISBN : 1860496814
Like America in the mid-nineteenth century, Emma Garnet Tate Lowell is at war with herself. Born to privilege on a grand plantation she grows up more and more aware that her family's prosperity is inextricably linked to the institution of slavery. As she looks back on her troubled childhood, her attempt to create the ideal happy home through marriage, and the war that destroyed the rhythm of all their days, so she begins the long journey towards her own reconstruction.
Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476611198
With novels like Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman, award-winning writer Kaye Gibbons has gained both critical acclaim and a large, devoted following among readers. This literary companion equips the reader with information about characters, plots, dates, allusions, literary motifs, and themes from the bestselling author's works. After an annotated chronology of Gibbons' life, the work presents 103 A-Z entries that include Snodgrass's analysis, cover the writings of reviewers and critics, and provide selected bibliographies. Appendices offer an historical timeline with references to corresponding historical events from Gibbons' novels, along with a list of 42 topics for group or individual research projects.
Author : Mary J. Demarr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313052750
Born to a tobacco farmer in rural North Carolina, Kaye Gibbons found her literary voice by speaking through the strong southern women who inhabit her novels. While concentrating on the places and people she knows well, Gibbons has managed to speak for people who struggle to find their own place, wherever they are, and her books have reached a worldwide audience. Whether for students assigned to read Ellen Foster or for lovers of literature, this companion—the first and only book-length study of its kind—provides insights and interpretations that will help readers enjoy and better appreciate the novels of Kaye Gibbons. Beginning with a biographical chapter, this companion shows how Gibbons's own life came to shape her fiction. Her place in and contributions to the genre of the southern novel are considered, and readers are taken through each of her six novels, starting with the highly acclaimed Ellen Foster (1987) and concluding with On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon (1998). For each work, lucid analyses of plot, character development, theme, and style are provided, along with an alternate critical perspective. The select bibliography includes reviews and further information on biographical and critical sources.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410335760
A Study Guide for Kaye Gibbons's "Ellen Foster," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Marilyn Kaye
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781447241324
New York, 1963. Fashion, music and attitudes are changing, and there's nowhere in in the world more exciting. Sherry, Donna, Allison and Pamela have each landed a dream internship at Gloss; America’s number-one fashion magazine. Each girl is trying to make her mark on 1960s New York and each finds herself thrown head-first into the buzzing world of celebrity, high-end fashion and gossip. But everything isn’t as glamorous as it seems - secrets from the past threaten to shatter their dreams. They're finding out that romance in New York is as unpredictable and thrilling as the city itself. Perfect for teenage fans of Mad Men, Ugly Betty, The Devil Wears Prada and Sex in the City.
Author : James Watkins
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998-07-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSC:32106013734238
A vibrant collective picture of the American South from both sides of the tracks and both sides of the color line.
Author : Kaye Gibbons
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780060760281
Autumn 1918. Rumors of peace are spreading across America, but spreading even faster are the first cases of Spanish influenza, whispering of the epidemic to come. Maureen Ross, well past a safe childbearing age, is experiencing a difficult pregnancy. Her husband, Troop -- cold and careless of her condition -- has battered her spirit throughout their marriage. Into this loveless ménage arrives Troop's niece, Mary Oliver, who has come to help Maureen in the last weeks of her confinement. Horrified by Troop's bullying, she realizes that her true duty is to protect her aunt. As the influenza spreads and the death toll grows, Troop's spiteful behavior worsens. He terrorizes the household, but when Mary fights back he begins to go over the edge. Maureen rallies, releasing a stunning thunderstorm of confrontation and, ultimately, finding spiritual renewal. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Author : Linda Tate
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820318507
A Southern Weave of Women is one of the first sustained treatments of the generation women writers who came of age in the post-World War II South as well as one of the first to situate southern literature fully within a multicultural context
Author : Kate Chopin
Publisher : Namaskar Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
As part of the Interactive Library Network, Teen.com and W3T.com, Inc. present the full text of "The Awakening," a novel written by the American author Katherine Chopin (1851-1904), who was known as Kate Chopin. Full-text versions of selected short stories by Chopin are also available online. The stories include "Beyond the Bayou," "Desiree's Baby," "The Kiss," and "A Pair of Silk Stockings."
