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Bøger fortalt af Phyllis Barber

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  • The Precarious Walk

    Essays from Sand and Sky

    •Author was inducted into the Nevada Writers' Hall of Fame and has appeared on NBC's Today Show. Her previous book was featured as a Top 10 Read by the Chicago Review of Books•Barber's broad perspective on her Mormon roots parallels that of Flannery O'Connor on her Catholic worldview•A wide–ranging essay collection that adds a distinctly feminine voice to the literature of the West•Barber ... Læs mere

    78,52 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Path and the Gate

    Mormon Short Fiction

    The Book of Mormon prophet Nephi describes the journey to eternal life as going through a gate of ordinances and traveling a “straight and narrow path.” Twenty-three authors took that gospel roadmap passage as a prompt to write “a Mormon story.” They responded with a surprisingly wide range of realistic and fantastic tales. Many are human reactions to unexpected steps on the path: a lifetime of ... Læs mere

    78,52 kr.

  • The Desert Between Us

    A Novel

    Serier Bog 1 - Western Literature and Fiction Series
    2020 Reading the West Book Awards, Longlist for Fiction2020 Association for Morman Letters Finalist, FictionThe Desert Between Us is a sweeping, multi-layered novel based on the U.S. government’s decision to open more routes to California during the Gold Rush. To help navigate this waterless, largely unexplored territory, the War Department imported seventy-five camels from the Middle East to help ... Læs mere

    186,74 kr.

  • Raw Edges

    A Memoir

    When Phyllis Barber’s thirty-three-year marriage ended, she had to redefine herself as a woman, a mother, and an artist. Raw Edges is her moving account of the “lean years” that followed her divorce. It is interwoven with a narrative of the marriage of two gifted people that begins with “sealing” in a Mormon temple, endures through the birth of four sons and the development of two careers, and ... Læs mere

    146,74 kr.

  • To the Mountain

    One Mormon Woman's Search for Spirit

    Written by an award-winning writer, this spiritual memoir is distinguished by the author’s Mormonism and literary prose. In a series of thought-provoking, personal essays, Phyllis Barber provides an engaging account of how she left her original Mormon faith and eventually returned to it decades later. Her journey begins in the 1990s. In search of spiritual healing and a deeper understanding of the ... Læs mere

    134,11 kr.

  • Lydbog

    Desert Between Us, The

    A Novel

    Fortalt af Phyllis Barber ...

    Uforkortet

    12 timer 22 min

    **2020 Reading the West Book Awards, Longlist for Fiction2020 Association for Morman Letters Finalist, Fiction**The Desert Between Us is a sweeping, multi-layered novel based on the U.S. government’s decision to open more routes to California during the Gold Rush. To help navigate this waterless, largely unexplored territory, the War Department imported seventy-five camels from the Middle East to ... Læs mere

    219,70 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

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  • Bright Dead Things

    Poems

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    The National Book Award finalist. " Limón's poems are like fires: charring the page, but leaving a smoke that remains past the close of the book." — The MillionsBright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately "disorderly, and marvelous, and ours."A book of bravado ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Be Mine

    'A masterful writer' - RAYMOND CARVEROver the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is, here, once more our guide to the great American midway.Now in the twilight of life, a man who has occupied many ... Læs mere

    146,91 kr.

  • This Is the Place

    Women Writing About Home

    Redigeret af Margot Kahn ...
    A thought-provoking collection of personal essays about homeWhat makes a home? What do equality, safety, and politics have to do with it? And why is it so important to us to feel like we belong? In this collection, 30 women writers explore the theme in personal essays about neighbors, marriage, kids, sentimental objects, homelessness, domestic violence, solitude, immigration, gentrification, ... Læs mere

    78,60 kr.

  • After Ikkyu and Other Poems

    af Jim Harrison ...
    A spirited collection of poems inspired by the Zen practice of one of America's most celebrated authors, Jim Harrison, a New York Times best-selling author.The popular novels of Jim Harrison (1937–2016) represent only part of his literary output—he was also widely acclaimed for the “renegade genius” of his powerful, expressive poems. After Ikkyū is the first collection of Harrison’s poetry ... Læs mere

    86,46 kr.

  • An Unfortunate Woman

    A Journey

    An Unfortunate Woman, An Unforgettable Journey was the final book written by Richard Brautigan before his death in 1984 and lay unpublished for sixteen years.Originally written in the 160 pages of a loose-leaf notebook, the narrator of the book is trying to come to terms with the death of a friend by going on a personal odyssey which zigzags through time and landscapes, from Oakland to Hawaii, and ... Læs mere

    83,74 kr.

  • Queen of the Fall

    A Memoir of Girls and Goddesses

    Serier serie American Lives
    Whether pulled from the folds of memory, channeled through the icons of Greek mythology and Roman Catholicism, or filtered through the lens of pop culture, Sonja Livingston’s Queen of the Fall considers the lives of women. Exploring the legacies of those she has crossed paths with in life and in the larger culture, Livingston weaves together strands of memory with richly imagined vignettes to ... Læs mere

    134,11 kr.