Category: Womens Literary Fiction

This ebook is full of poems from life's previous, current, and future

New Mexico, 1985. Brigid lengthy evening, a tender half-Navajo painter, is going to
work as an assistant for the aged Georgia O’Keeffe. Haunted by way of the decision
to surrender her baby daughter for adoption, Brigid struggles with the direction
and inertia of her existence. With O’Keeffe’s encouragement, Brigid develops a
powerful kind, incorporating language and wordplay in addition to snapshot in her
portrayal of local American existence and her position in it.
Atlanta, 1995. Nancy Diamond, an aspiring playwright, encounters Brigid’s work
and starts off to appreciate the hidden truths approximately her personal lifestyles because the baby born of
an affair among her white mom and an African American artist.
New York urban, 2001. Sasha Hernandez enrolls at Columbia college to
study filmmaking. She has only in the near past found that her mom, residing in
Manhattan, is a celebrated painter and sculptor whose paintings is put in in the
sculpture backyard on the global exchange Center.
In Liza Wieland’s deeply relocating novel, those interwoven tales exhibit how paintings finds the intensity and complexity of human love, in all its betrayals and losses, good looks and redemption

Silent lady explores the stories of unforgettable characters as they persist with trajectories unimagined by means of Shakespeare, together with a tender woman who's unwittingly bought to traffickers after wasting her mom within the 2004 tsunami within the name tale; an formidable, proud pupil in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan who unearths her desires taken hostage in Kesh Kumay; a tender lady in an interracial marriage who devises a determined plan to assist her tortured husband after his go back from Vietnam in not anyone; i actually; ladies and an older guy who notice how fluid the limits of gender may be in Cocktails With Charles; a lady who constructs a existence on remembered ache after her husband disappears with their child daughter in Deep darkish Waves; a mom and son who combat for keep an eye on in their Alberta farm in Passing via; an eleven-year-old woman who stumbles throughout incest and her personal rising sexuality in no longer intended to understand; and a genetically-rare those who fight with transferring gender politics and an environmentally ravaged international within the Snow humans, 30-46 AGM.

Eliza Goode is born right into a New Orleans' parlor residence within the mid 1800s. bought as a courtesan on her 17th birthday, she flees her prepared destiny on the outbreak of the Civil struggle. She is handed up via Mississippi's plantations from one slave quarters to a different until eventually she emerges on the Confederates' Camp Corinth and is swept alongside to the conflict of Manassas. alongside the way in which, she meets Bennett McFerrin and his spouse, Rissa, who follows her husband to battle. utilizing guile and her outstanding good looks, Eliza transforms herself from camp follower prostitute to laundress, nurse, and caregiver to Rissa whilst Bennett is taken prisoner via Ulysses S. provide on the conflict of fortress Donelson in Clarksville, Tennessee. Her ultimate transformation frees her from her earlier. Eliza's tale is greater than a story of struggle, transcendence, and hassle. it's a tale advised nowa days through Susan Masters, a novelist in Boston, whose cousin, Hadley, unearths Eliza's letters in an attic and implores Susan to put in writing Eliza's tale to reply to questions she seeks for her personal lifestyles. Hadley has a shameful mystery of her own-a earlier, approximately which she can't even deliver herself to talk. Set within the moment summer season of the Iraq battle and 3 years after September 11, this isn't your traditional Civil warfare novel. This tale says a lot approximately how we grew to become who we're, and who we would became, had the Civil battle no longer kept us as a nation.

Transcending the headlines this present day that recommend political and army strategies to global difficulties, ECHOSIS, operating with the basis that “everyone is creative,” provides an eclectic workforce of characters workout creative expression that proves to be a powerful weapon opposed to a global population wishing to operate with independence, yet feeling impotent in a turning out to be terrorist global. As such, ECHOSIS questions the price of unbridled mind's eye and the results of its loss.
the tale is decided in ny urban, a distant island off the coast of Maine, the isle of Jamaica, and eu destinations of Mikonos, Greece and Lisbon, Portugal. popular sculptor, thirty-five-year outdated Derek Turrel, appears at himself and different artists round him, and unearths the proliferation of mediocrity within the arts and leisure international is greater than might be overlooked to any extent further. He units out to create Echo existence, an autonomous association of artists whose basic objective is to empower. He convinces an preliminary crew of artists to hitch him on an island off the coast of Maine. There, a brand new paradigm for dealing with the world’s chaos is initiated. discovered in its place to mainstream media’s choices, Echo Life’s collective process and compelling message is discovered via hundreds of thousands via satellite tv for pc television, radio, streaming video and interactive networking on the web. thousands of daily humans in addition to specialist actors, poets, composers, et al, evolve from being skeptics, to staunch believers in Derek’s philosophy…and themselves.
Seeing Echo existence as an incredible hazard to his final analysis, Stoppard Denning, the founder and CEO of OST, the world's greatest media conglomerate, units out to spoil their existence.
inspite of a defiant Stoppard Denning commencing to see Echo Life’s advantages as an arbiter in a warfare torn global, freedom of expression once more meets likely insurmountable tragic outcomes by the hands of extremists.

Two households. faces of the US. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences.

Gus Voorhees is a pioneer within the development of women’s reproductive rights and a debatable abortion supplier within the American Midwest. One morning as he arrives at his health center, he's ambushed by means of a hardline Christian, Luther Dunphy, and shot dead.

The killing leaves in its wake fatherless households: the Voorheeses, who're prosperous, hugely knowledgeable, secular and pro-choice, and the Dunphys, their contrary on all counts.
When the daughters of the 2 households, Naomi Voorhees and sunrise Dunphy, glimpse one another on the trial of Luther Dunphy, their preliminary reaction is mutual hatred. yet their lives are tangled jointly without end by way of what has occurred, and during the future years and the occasions that stick to, neither can fairly put out of your mind the other…

‘The tale of Trump’s America’ Daily Mail

‘The such a lot correct publication of Oates’s half-century-long profession . . . a masterpiece’ Washington Post

‘Oates's American saga captivates since it exists inside of an exact drama enjoying out around the country. a swish and excruciating tale of 2 households who don't reside very a ways aside, yet exist in several realities’ united states Today

A vintage novel of affection, intercourse, and the vagaries of the literary lifestyles, as witnessed by means of a tender lady at the verge of success

Dina Reeve is a skilled author with a dry, city humorousness and an inclination to fret approximately sharks in bathtubs. Howard Ritchie is an editor of a literary journal and a boozing, compulsive womanizer. Newman Sykes is a philandering, acerbic critic. they're one of the seducers and the seduced during this witty and assuredly written novel, which follows its richly drawn characters as they circulate among mattress and typewriter.
 
Praise for Elbowing the Seducer

“The debut of an greatly talented writer.”—The manhattan Times
 
“A juicy slice of life—intelligent, bitingly sincere, funny.”—Kansas urban Star
 
“Wonderfully witty and sharp-eyed writing.”—Ms.
 
“Excellent satire.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

After a taking pictures in her neighborhood mall in rural New Hampshire, English professor Maggie Daley is stunned to profit the gunman used to be her former pupil, and chagrined while she unearths an outdated essay supplying clues to his violent nature she may have ignored.

Des femmes en quête de droits et de libertés...

Clémence n’a toujours désiré qu’une seule selected : mener une vie libre. Mais dans ce début de XXe siècle où l. a. moindre revendication féministe est considérée comme une atteinte aux bonnes mœurs, le chemin sera lengthy avant qu’elle n’accède enfin au bonheur. l. a. première guerre mondiale, son sens des affaires et son amour de l. a. mode feront d’elle, après bien des combats, une femme profondément moderne.

De 1890 à nos jours, cette fresque romanesque décline en trois tomes, à travers le destin de deux familles, l. a. lutte et les avancées qui ont permis aux femmes de s’imposer dans une société gouvernée par les hommes et d’y jouer un rôle de tout most appropriate plan.

EXTRAIT

À peine Clémence eut-elle poussé son most popular cri, ce jour de juin 1890, qu’Alphonse se détourna de l’enfant, déçu de constater qu’il s’agissait d’une fille. Il escomptait qu’après lui avoir déjà donné un fils quatre ans plus tôt, Émilienne assurerait sa descendance en mettant au monde un moment héritier mâle. Il avait spéculé sur cette naissance comme il spéculait sur le rendement des ouvriers de sa fabrique de cloth, persuadé que, partie sur sa lancée, sa femme lui pondrait des garçons à los angeles chaîne. Encouragé par ce qu’il avait qualifié à l’époque de « bon début », il l. a. voyait programmée pour produire à chaque grossesse un nouveau spécimen doté d’un pénis, seul attribut propre à défendre l’orgueil de son nom. Il s’était détourné de l. a. selected vagissante que lui présentait l. a. sage-femme avec un tel dédain, racontait Jeannette, qu’Émilienne s’était sentie honteuse de n’avoir été able de sortir du ventre qu’il avait ensemencé que ce fruit décevant : une fille.

CE QU'EN PENSE l. a. CRITIQUE

Quelle histoire, quel roman incroyable sur l'évolution du statut des femmes ! - Blog Chez Lavinia

À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR

Alain Leblanc est né à Paris en 1951. Fils distinct d’une mère célibataire, il découvre l’univers des livres, dès l’âge de onze ans. Les personnages de roman deviendront ses compagnons de jeu, et les écrivains ses pères de substitution. Ce sont eux qui l’initieront à l. a. complexité des sentiments et de l’existence.
En 1973, à vingt-deux ans, il choisit le journalisme et fait ses débuts à Combat dans l. a. rubrique spectacle.
En 1983, il entre à Paris-Match où il met à l’honneur les grands écrivains, dont Alberto Moravia, Henri Troyat, Hervé Bazin, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene…, mais aussi des figures comme Léo Ferré, Peter Brook, Eugène Ionesco, Henri Verneuil, Philippe Noiret ou Michel Audiard, auxquelles il consacre des interviews remarquées.
Couronné à vingt-cinq ans par le prix de l. a. Vocation pour son foremost roman Une fille pour l’hiver (Flammarion), il se consacre à l’écriture en marge de ses activités de journaliste. Suivront de nombreux romans dont plusieurs seront adaptés au cinéma et à los angeles télévision.

«L’irlandese Catherine Dunne, autrice del fortunato l. a. metà di niente, sa, come nessun altro, raccontare l. a. vita intima, casalinga, quotidiana di una donna e di una famiglia.»
Isabella Bossi Fedrigotti

«Nei racconti della Dunne, collegati dal filo della sofferenza femminile, c’è un realismo minuto, quotidiano. Nelle trame c’è tutta una razza di donne dure, coriacee, abituate al dolore, alla lotta, ai sentimenti radicali.»
Mirella Serri

«Una grande maestra nell’analisi dei sentimenti. Senza sentimentalismi.»
Giulia Borgese

«I suoi personaggi sono le nostre amiche, le nostre sorelle, le nostre madri ricalcate in un’esperienza di reciprocità quotidiana che sorprende in step with intelligenza e sensibilità, oltre che consistent with il raffinato lavoro artigianale con los angeles scrittura.»
Il Giornale

Lynda e Robert Graham possono dirsi soddisfatti della vita che si sono costruiti. Una bella casa in un quartiere benestante di Dublino, los angeles sicurezza economica, due figli invidiabili, Katie e Ciarán. Nonostante qualche nuvola passeggera e qualche preoccupazione legata al comportamento un po’ aggressivo del figlio adolescente, i Graham vedono scorrere los angeles loro esistenza placidamente, riflessa nel giardino giapponese che ogni mattina all’alba Lynda si ferma qualche attimo a contemplare con l’orgoglio dell’artista. C’è solo un neo in questo perfetto quadro famigliare: si tratta di Danny, il fratello minore di Robert, uno scapestrato che periodicamente sconvolge l. a. loro regimen con le sue pretese e i suoi modi prepotenti. according to fortuna, nella casa dei Graham arriva una personality che porta un po’ di serenità. Ciarán infatti presenta ai suoi Jon, un amico bello, educato e sensibile, che presto diventa una presenza fissa al punto da trasferirsi da loro. Agli occhi di tutti Jon sembra l’ospite perfetto, forse troppo: l’istinto di Lynda le suggerisce che qualcosa non va... Chi è veramente il dolce e disponibile Jon? E perché, da quando è entrato nelle loro vite, iniziano a verificarsi episodi misteriosi e inquietanti? Di fronte a un’oscura minaccia che sembra voler distruggere il suo mondo, toccherà a Lynda cercare delle risposte. In un crescendo di tensione emotiva Catherine Dunne ci offre ancora una volta lo splendido ritratto di una donna area of expertise, decisa, capace di reagire alle avversità e di lottare in line with proteggere i propri cari, in un romanzo dall’originale tocco di noir.

«Catherine Dunne ha il dono geniale di trasformare vite normali in un racconto irresistibile.»
The Irish Post

«La Dunne scrive di persone comuni, ma nei suoi romanzi l. a. loro vita è straordinaria.»
Sunday Tribune

«Nessuno sa parlare delle donne come lei. Nessuno sa parlare alle donne come lei.»
Elle

«La Dunne è una narratrice talmente dotata da essere in grado di ricreare in modo credibile un mondo che avvince il lettore.»
Evening Herald