janet burroway
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Bridge of Sand
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009; Dana, the widow of a Pennsylvania senator, buries her husband the morning
of 9/11, only miles from the United 93 crash. After months of paralysis,
she sells her house and heads south in an effort to pick up the lost strands
of her youth.
"...This book will stay with you long after youve turned
the last page."
--Jane Alexander
"Suspense mingles with insight in this sensuous novel
as Burroway reminds us that we can't extract ourselves from the wider world,
that everything is always in flux, and that to
survive, one must hold onto kindness, fairness, and love."
--Donna Seaman, Booklist
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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;
Eighth edition, Pearson Longman, 2010; The classic text in fiction writing,
Writing Fiction has been in print for twenty-five years and is the most widely
used creative writing text in America.
"the best such book on the market" -James L. Marra, Temple
U.
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Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft;
Third Edition, Pearson Longman, Penguin Academics, 2010; discusses the creative
techniques shared by all forms of imaginative writing – Image,
Voice, Character, Setting, and Story, before individually exploring Creative
Nonfiction, 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; Pan paperback edition, 1975; National Scholastic Publications "Lucky Club" choice; televised by the BBC, London, 1977; read on Captain Kangaroo 1977; Weekly Reader Children's Book Club, Fall 1978; Paperback edition Sandpiper, Boston, 1987; Paperback edition, Piccolo, London, l988; Cassette edition, Houghton Mifflin, l990; board book edition 2010; Macmillan reissue 2011; translations into German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Japanese & Polish 1977-2011. The Giant Jam Sandwich has been scored for narrator and orchestra by composer Philip Wharton.
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