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The Perfect Sonya (Paperback): Beverly Lowry The Perfect Sonya (Paperback)
Beverly Lowry
R448 R377 Discovery Miles 3 770 Save R71 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Actress Pauline Terry is so successful in a performance of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya that one critic calls her "the perfect Sonya." But her life is not what she expected when she left Texas for Broadway. She swims in a fish tank in a New Jersey bar to make a living, most auditions do not result in callbacks, and her marriage is shaky. Called home by her father's imminent death, she confronts both the past she thought she'd left behind and her uncertain future. For solace she turns to her aunt's former husband, Will Hand, a professor and nature writer. But their affair is brief and leaves her more uncertain than ever. Back in New York, Pauline realizes that her life onstage cannot make up for the emptiness of her life offstage. Her return to Texas was a transforming experience, leading her ultimately to come to terms with her childhood memories, her marriage, her dramatic ambitions, and finally, herself. The Perfect Sonya, first published in 1987 by Viking Penguin, won the Jesse Jones Award for the Best Novel of 1987 from the Texas Institute of Letters.

Deer Creek Drive - A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta: Beverly Lowry Deer Creek Drive - A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta
Beverly Lowry
R473 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R86 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Why I Like This Story (Hardcover): Jackson R. Bryer Why I Like This Story (Hardcover)
Jackson R. Bryer; Contributions by A.R. Gurney, Alan Cheuse, Alice McDermott, Andre Dubus, …
R1,267 Discovery Miles 12 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers to the library or bookstore to read - or re-read - the stories selected. On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they also tell us a good deal about the author of the essay, about what elements of fiction he or she values. Among the writers whose stories are discussed are such American masters as James, Melville, Hemingway, O'Connor, Fitzgerald, Porter, Carver, Wright, Updike, Bellow, Salinger,Malamud, and Welty; but the book also includes pieces on stories by canonical but lesser-known practitioners such as Andre Dubus, Ellen Glasgow, Kay Boyle, Delmore Schwartz, George Garrett, Elizabeth Tallent, William Goyen, Jerome Weidman, Peter Matthiessen, Grace Paley, William H. Gass, and Jamaica Kincaid, and relative newcomers such as Lorrie Moore, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Phil Klay, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Edward P. Jones. Why I Like This Story will send readers to the library or bookstore to read or re-read the stories selected. Among the contributors to the book are Julia Alvarez, Andrea Barrett, Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Andre Dubus, George Garrett, William H. Gass, Julia Glass, Doris Grumbach, Jane Hamilton, Jill McCorkle, Alice McDermott, Clarence Major, Howard Norman, Annie Proulx, Joan Silber, Elizabeth Spencer, and Mako Yoshikawa. Editor Jackson R. Bryer is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland.

Deer Creek Drive - A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta (Hardcover): Beverly Lowry Deer Creek Drive - A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta (Hardcover)
Beverly Lowry
R760 R623 Discovery Miles 6 230 Save R137 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Who Killed These Girls? - The Unsolved Murders That Rocked a Texas Town (Paperback): Beverly Lowry Who Killed These Girls? - The Unsolved Murders That Rocked a Texas Town (Paperback)
Beverly Lowry
R289 R227 Discovery Miles 2 270 Save R62 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Her Dream of Dreams - The Rise and Triumph of Madam C. J. Walker (Paperback, 1st Vintage Books ed): Beverly Lowry Her Dream of Dreams - The Rise and Triumph of Madam C. J. Walker (Paperback, 1st Vintage Books ed)
Beverly Lowry
R629 R554 Discovery Miles 5 540 Save R75 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Madam C. J. Walker is an American rags-to-riches icon. Born to former slaves in Louisiana in 1867, she went on to become a prominent African American businesswoman and the first female self-made millionaire in U.S. history. The story of her transformation from a laundress to a tremendously successful entrepreneur is both inspirational and mysterious, as many of the details of her early life remain obscure. In this superior biography, Beverly Lowry's abundant research fleshes out Walker's thinly documented story and frames it in the roiling race relations of her day.
Walker grew up illiterate and worked as a washerwoman well into her thirties before staking her future on a "Wonderful Hair Grower." Defying all odds, Walker learned to read and write, mastered marketing and spin, and built a booming cosmetics empire that provided lucrative work for thousands of black women and allowed her to engage in philanthropy and civil rights activism until her death in a Westchester mansion in 1919. Spanning from the antebellum South to the Harlem Renaissance, Lowry brings this intriguing and important woman vividly to life.

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