janet burroway
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Embalming Mom: Essays in Life; University of Iowa Press, 2002: sixteen essays of wit, rage and reconciliation chronicle loss and renaissance in a life that reaches from Florida to Arizona across to England and back again.
"…a pithy essayist with an inner compass that steers her to the ambiguity at the heart of the human condition." --Booklistexcerpt
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Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft; sixth Edition, Addison Wesley Longman, 2002. The classic text in fiction writing, Writing Fiction has been in print for twenty years and is used in more than four hundred colleges and universities in the United States.
"…the best such book on the market" -James L. Marra, Temple U.
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Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft; Longman, Penguin Academics, 2002; discusses the creative techniques shared by all forms of imaginative writing-Image, Voice, Character, Setting, and Story-before individually exploring Essay, Fiction, Poetry and Drama genres.
"engaging, witty, specific, absolutely clear and propelled by the kind of energetic prose that inspires students to write well." -Porter Shreve, UNC Greensboro
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Cutting Stone; novel,Houghton Mifflin, 1992, and Victor Gollancz, London, 1992; paperback edition Pinnacle Books (division of Zebra, Inc.) Oct. l993; paperback edition, Indigo Books, Victor Gollancz June l996.
"Cutting Stone is about many things, but perhaps most centrally it is about the mines and quarries of the human heart, and the myriad ways we delve into, gouge out, and transform ourselves."
-Jonathan Spence
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Opening Nights; novel, Atheneum, 1985, and Gollancz, July 1985; Paperback Edition, Bantam Books, New York, June 1986; Book-of-the-Month-Club alternate selection; Swedish translation, Plats pa Scene, Bonniers, Stockholm, 1987; Radio adaptation from Actors Repertory Theatre and the FSU School of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts, transmitted on WFSU summer l996.
"Exhilarating, vivid and precise"
-The L.A.Times.
"A fine and complex novel, a comedy and then some."
-The New Yorker.
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Raw Silk; novel,Little, Brown, March 1977 (runner up for the National Book Award, l977); Victor Gollancz, Ltd., London, July 1977; condensed in Redbook Magazine, Jan. 1976; condensed in Cosmopolitan (London), July 1977; serialized in Cleo (Australia), 1977-78; paperback edition, Pocket Books, New York, March 1979. Second paperback edition Bantam Books, N.Y., June 1986.
"She writes likes a robust angel."
-The Guardian, London
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The Giant Jam Sandwich; children's book,Jonathan Cape, London, 1972; Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1973; German translation, Das Riesen-Marmeladenbrot, K. Thienmanns, Stuttgart, 1974; Pan paperback edition, 1975; National Scholastic Publications, "Lucky Club" choice; Televised by the BBC, London, 1977; Weekly Reader Children's Book Club, Fall 1978; Paperback edition Sandpiper, Boston, 1987; Read on Dutch and Belgian television in Netherlandish translation l988; Paperback edition, Piccolo, London, l988; Cassette edition, Houghton Mifflin, l990.
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