Author: Heidi Jon Schmidt
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1466886102
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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The much anticipated and darkly comic first novel from a prize-winning storyteller "I grew up on a farm." The year is l974, the place Sweetwater College, and Beatrice Wolfe is telling the story of her life to the glamorous young professor Philippa Sayres. So begins the achingly funny, often heartbreaking story of Beatrice's double quest to find out who she might be, and to escape the gothic eccentricity of her family. Married in a misbegotten passion, her parents are totally unsuited to any kind of business. The four Wolfe children's lives are ruled by their mother whose larger-than-life demands and fears encircle them in a darkly comic web of contradictions. When their father's ping pong business collapses and he loses their "farm," Bea's family spirals out of control. Bea, under Philippa's romantic spell, joins a lesbian community and is so committed to her new gay identity that she barely notices she's falling in love with a man--a man just risen from the ashes of addiction, whose re-creation of himself she threatens to undo. In The Bride of Catastrophe, Heidi Jon Schmidt explores the magnetic effect of love in all its variations--its power to form and sometimes deform us, to make us who we are.
Author: Heidi Jon Schmidt
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312281773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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The much anticipated and darkly comic first novel from a prize-winning storyteller. The year is l974, the place Sweetwater College, and Beatrice Wolfe is telling the story of her life to the glamorous young professor Philippa Sayres.
Author: Heidi Jon Schmidt
Publisher: Fourth Estate
ISBN: 9780007122905
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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A tender, sharp and entertaining novel, from one of the most original women writers at work today. The Bride of Catastrophe is a comedy that follows the fortunes of Beatrice Wolfe, a 'feral child' raised in a peculiar, isolated family and loosed onto an unsuspecting world at Sweetriver College. There she falls under the spell of her tutor, an energetic, exuberant, lesbian iconoclast called Philippa Sayres. After graduation, we follow Beatrice's odyssey into Real Life as she tries, valiantly, earnestly, ridiculously to make conventional and meaningful progress. She insists she's a lesbian, though everyone from her parents to her female lovers to the man she unwittingly adores can see she's wrong. But then she's not used to being wrong - she has long since been the grown-up in her troubled family. A latterday Emma who snaps her book smartly shut and thinks with satisfaction "Now I know how love progresses.", Beatrice has a lot to learn, and a lot of growing up to do. Witnessing her journey, in this hugely entertaining and tender comic novel, is a hilarious, poignant delight. 'THE BRIDE OF CATASTROPHE is hilarious even as it veers to the edge of tragic. The novel's sensibility keeps you reading and laughing. Heidi Jon Schmidt's wicked and dark humor makes perfect crazy sense of the unlikeliest elements - from a ping pong ball factory to the intricate personal politics of a lesbian community. The brio and originality of her short stories are alive and well in this wonderful novel.' Katharine Weber
Author: Heidi Jon Schmidt
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417707263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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I grew up on a farm, --the year is l974, the place Sweetriver College, and Beatrice Wolfe is telling the story of her life to the glamorous young professor Philippa Sayres. So begins the achingly funny, often heartbreaking story of Beatrice's quest to escape the gothic eccentricity of her family and find an authentic identity of her own. Married in a misbegotten passion, her parents are totally unsuited to farming or to any kind of business. When they finally lose their farm, Bea's family spirals out of control. Still under Philippa's spell, Bea moves to the city of Hartford and joins a lesbian community, and becomes so committed to her new gay identity that she barely notices she's falling in love with a man--a man just risen from the ashes of addiction, whose re-creation of himself she threatens to undo.
Author: Rebecca Huntley
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN: 1743586191
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 235
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We’ve all had days when if we didn’t laugh, we’d cry. Whether it’s a domestic drama, career cockup or just a run-of-the-mill disaster, we’ve all been there – no matter who we are. In this hilarious and moving collection, well-known Australians from all walks of life share their stories as a kind of mass therapy; a feel-good tonic for when the proverbial sh*t hits the fan. From Annabel Crabb’s tale of Russian interference in the birth of her first child to Kate McClymont on how to manage mobsters, or Frank Moorhouse on the worst possible Valentine’s Day to Emma Alberici on moving to London with three small children, these entertaining tales of woe remind us that this too shall pass.
Author: Katheryn Kiden
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781536566352
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Katie Wyatt
Publisher: Black Hills Mail Order Bride
ISBN: 9781729405833
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Available as part of a value boxed set AMZN.COM/B01GDTRTQE (copy and paste the link into your browser) Clean and Wholesome American mail order bride historical western short story romance. It's 1877 and love is starting to blossom in the rustling and bustling city of South Dakota. This series is about four young brides from the East Coast looking for love in the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota. The stories are about their challenges, their test of faith, and their triumphs of discovering true love and real men. Meet Cate, she came from a well-off family in Michigan. She doesn't know any household chores as they have plenty of servants. However, she had the best education and even knows 3 different languages. When their father died, they have lost all of their wealth, and the pastor of their church suggested she marry one of the men who had written to him seeking for a wife. Can Cate move to a new town away from everything she knew and loved? Will Luke regret having a wife that doesn't know anything about keeping a house? Can Cate and Luke find true love in spite of their "miles apart" differences? Grab your horse and go for a ride over to the Black Hills in the lovely, hot and dusty county of South Dakota. Hang out with the patient and understanding Luke, meet the kind and loving Oberfeld family and also get to know Cate, our heroine who's struggling to learn to cook, clean and take care of the animals in the hopes of finding true love. Black Hills Mail Order Bride Series Book 1: Cate's Catastrophe Book 2: Meredith's Mountain Man Book 3: Gretchen's Gold Book 4: Victoria's Valentine ...."a story of hope, fear, romance, suspense and true love...".. While this book is part of a series, it can definitely be read as a standalone book. Katie Wyatt: #1 Best Seller in New Release Romance #1 Best Seller in 90 Minute Short Reads #1 Best Seller in Frontier & Pioneer Western Fiction #1 Best Seller in Western & Frontier Christian Romance #1 Best Seller in Christian Westerns #1 Best Seller in Historical #1 Best Seller in Collections & Anthologies #1 Best Seller in Teen & Young Adult #1 Best Seller in Religion & Spirituality #1 Best Seller in Children's Christian Books ALWAYS FREE on Kindle Unlimited or Amazon Prime Katie Wyatt's Clean and Wholesome novelette American mail order bride historical Western book romance series are enjoyment for all ages from Teen & Young Adult to a more mature audience.
Author: Rose Inserra
Publisher: Sundance Publishing
ISBN: 9780760832882
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Pippi dreads her role as a wedding flowergirl and imagines all the disasters that could happen. Supa Dooper Chapter Book.
Author: Elissa Stein
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312208472
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 97
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A hilarious, in-depth look at how the perfect day can lead to many sleepless nights, Awfully Wedded is a sharp and funny compilation of the most pathetic, heartbreaking, and embarrassing wedding stories ever. 75 illustrations.
Author: Annabelle Snow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College students' writings, American
Languages : en
Pages :
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Snow collects stories of wedding disasters and hypothesizes that these disasters, while traumatic when they occur, are nevertheless unimportant to the healthiness of the subsequent marriage between bride and groom. Snow believes that the material and traditional aspects of a wedding ceremony are important but irrelevant to the actual strength of the marriage, and thus, that a disastrous wedding day is inconvenient but ultimately irrelevant to the actual marriage. She concludes by suggesting that disaster stories are used to educate others about the possible pitfalls of weddings and how to avoid them.
