Ellen Foster

Ellen Foster PDF Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616203021
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165

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Book Description
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.

Ellen Foster

Ellen Foster PDF Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616203021
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165

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Book Description
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.

A Virtuous Woman

A Virtuous Woman PDF Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565127005
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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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.

Sights Unseen

Sights Unseen PDF Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060797150
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Book Description
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.

The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster

The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster PDF Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780151012046
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Book Description
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.

A Cure for Dreams

A Cure for Dreams PDF Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565126904
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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Book Description
A story that traces the bonds between four generations of resourceful Southern women through stories passed from one generation to another.

Charms for the Easy Life

Charms for the Easy Life PDF Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060760257
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Book Description
A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina. Radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy, brilliant daughter, Margaret, possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that often beats a path to their door. And they are protected by the eccentric wisdom and muscular love of the remarkable matriarch Charlie Kate, a solid, uncompromising, self-taught healer who treats everything from boils to broken bones to broken hearts. Sophia, Margaret, and Charlie Kate find strength in a time when women almost always depended on men, and their bond deepens as each one experiences love and loss during World War II. Charms for the Easy Life is a passionate, luminous, and exhilarating story about embracing what life has to offer ... even if it means finding it in unconventional ways. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon PDF Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN: 9781860496813
Category : Historical fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Book Description
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.

Southern Selves

Southern Selves PDF Author: James Watkins
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Book Description
A vibrant collective picture of the American South from both sides of the tracks and both sides of the color line.

A Southern Weave of Women

A Southern Weave of Women PDF Author: Linda Tate
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820318509
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Book Description
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

Art and Advertising

Art and Advertising PDF Author: Joan Gibbons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857710559
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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Book Description
Art and advertising are often seen as potential enemies, with the one being free from commercial concerns and the other dependent upon them. In this clearly written and wide-ranging book, Joan Gibbons argues rather for a mutually enriching relationship between the two, showing how artists have reached a wider audience by embracing the tactics and mass media of advertising, and how advertising has employed issues and strategies of contemporary art. Charting key points of overlap and antagonism, she looks at the work of artists from Andy Warhol, Barbara Kruger and Victor Burgin to Sylvie Fleurie and Swetlana Heger and at landmark campaigns from Silk Cut to Benetton's Shock of Reality. Exploring cutting-edge advertising from the influential work of David Carson to Wieden and Kennedy's Nike campaigns and the art and advertising work of Tony Kaye, she also looks at the increasing endorsement of art by highly branded products such as Absolut vodka, to argue that art and advertising need not be mutually exclusive terms.