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| ISBN: | 0898231884 |
| Title: | A Degree Of MasteryA Journey Through Book Arts Apprenticeship |
| Price: | $27.95 |
| Year Published: | 1999 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 192 |
| Book Description: | Degree of Mastery is at once a richly detailed and intensely personal account of the author’s study of bookbinding and paper conservation as the first woman apprentice with one of that craft’s great masters, the late William Anthony. Annie Tremmel Wilcox interweaves the careful description of her craft with the formation of her special working relationship with her mentor, an internationally known book preservationist. The University of Iowa created its Center for the Book so that Anthony and others could teach the skills of bookbinding to students like the author. When his unexpected death left her struggling to continue without predictable and reliable guidance, she eventually arrived at the decision to become her own master. |
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| Cover Type: | Mass Market Paperback |
| Subject: | Memoir |
| Author(s): | Unknown Author |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
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| ISBN: | 0898231469 |
| Title: | Beyond Borders |
| Price: | $15.95 |
| Year Published: | 1992 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 256 |
| Book Description: | A strong and varied body of poetry, fiction, and essays that explore the common ground between Canadian and American Plains writers. Here American readers will have their first exposure to Canadian author Carol Shields, as well as seeing familiar American writers such as Carol Bly, Bill Holm, and Linda Hasselstrom. "In spite of the differences in form, locale, experience, and background of each writer, their work blends effortlessly, allowing common themes to emerge as the writers tackle everything from the existence of God to the flatness of the Prairie landscape. Through diverse styles, subjects and tones, each writer labors to present his or her vision of the Prairies. Taken together they create a powerful image for the world to see."Winnipeg Free Press |
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| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Memoir |
| Author(s): |
Vinz,Mark -- |
| Editor(s): |
Williamson,Dave |
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| ISBN: | 0-89823-228-7 |
| Title: | Half the House: A Memoir |
| Price: | $14.95 |
| Year Published: | 2005 |
| Trim Size: | 7.9x5 |
| Pages | 220 |
| Book Description: | Half the House is an unflinching literary memoir of child abuse that attests to the healing power of truthtelling. Originally published in hard cover ten years ago, this "spare, poignant" memoir (Time) tells of a 10-year old's sexual abuse by a baseball coach, and resulted in the molester's arrest and cries for help from men and boys across the country. |
| Excerpt: | Looking at this photograph, one might think that these boys in their baseball uniforms, in front of a handball court, with a Chevrolet behind them, are emblematic of that golden age of America, the years of prosperity after the Second World War. Their uniforms are spiffy. It's summer. Their coach is taking their picture. They are studying how to choke off empathy. They are getting the hang of hatred. They are dividing the world into victors and victims. They are running a phallic gauntlet. They are dying inside, of fear. They are learning the national pastime. |
| Reviews: | "Hoffman makes very clear the complex encounter of his old life and his new one ... we suddenly discern that a hard, brave victory has been achieved. Hoffman, sober, a father, has not only lived to tell the tale. He has worked to understand it and fashion it into art." |
| Review Source: | Sven Birkerts, Then, Again: Aspects of Contemporary Memoir |
| Cover Type: | Trade Paperback |
| Subject: | Memoir |
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Hoffman,Richard -- Richard Hoffman’s memoir Half the House was awarded the Boston Athenaeum Readers' Prize in 1996 and was recently reissued by New Rivers Press. He is also the author of two collections of poems, Without Paradise (2002), and Gold Star Road (2007), winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize. Hoffman’s prose and verse have appeared in journals including Agni, Ascent, Chautauqua Journal, Cimarron Review, Harvard Review, Hudson Review, Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, The Louisville Review, Marlboro Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Poetry, River Teeth, Shenandoah, and Witness, as well as in numerous anthologies. He has twice been a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellow in fiction and in 2004 was awarded the Charles Angoff Prize from The Literary Review for his essay “Pictures of Boyhood” which is included as Afterword in the new edition of Half the House. He is currently Writer-in-Residence in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College. A collection of his short stories, Interference, is forthcoming next year. |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
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| ISBN: | 0898231825 |
| Title: | House on Via Gombito Writing by American Women Abroad, Second Edition |
| Price: | $19.95 |
| Year Published: | 1997 |
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| Book Description: | This collection of forty-five travel memoirs has been a best-selling title for New Rivers Press since it was published in 1991. Ranging throughout the five continents, the writers have given us snapshots of life in many cultures. This second edition contains a new introduction by C. W. Truesdale, and an updated cover. "The nearly 50 short pieces of travel writing that comprise this volume display such a wealth of perspectives and explore such a variety of locales that the book is a splendid adventure in itself."—Publishers Weekly |
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| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Memoir |
| Author(s): | Unknown Author |
| Editor(s): |
Truesdale,C.W. Springnether,Madelon |
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| ISBN: | 0898232228 |
| Title: | Pilgrimage with Fish |
| Price: | $14.95 |
| Year Published: | 2004 |
| Trim Size: | 5 X 7 |
| Pages | 115 |
| Book Description: | Pilgrimage with Fish is a pocket-sized meditation on the glories of being alive and doing what you love. Whether practicing the art of catch-and-release fishing, conjuring up the past, or, with his elderly mother, taking his father’s ashes on one final river ride, Moses writes about what makes us human and how, for him, the passion of fishing keeps him from falling victim to the clockwork agenda of our times. |
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| Reviews: | “Ed Moses knows fishing from childhood up and from the heart out. This is just plain good writing and story telling.” |
| Review Source: | Paul Quinnett, author of Darwin’s Bass |
| Subject: | Memoir |
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Moses,Ed -- Ed Moses lives in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He has published three novels and continues to fish the Susquehanna River, which remains as beautiful as ever. |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
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| ISBN: | 0898231701 |
| Title: | Remembering China 1935-1945 |
| Price: | $22.95 |
| Year Published: | 1996 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 192 |
| Book Description: | A classic memoir of a courageous woman living in perilous times, Bea Liu's story of China during the Japanese invasion will prove unforgettable to readers. Told in understated prose, Liu describes how an extended family managed to cope and survive as they moved from city to city, just ahead of the brutal invaders who terrorized most of China during the years 1935-1945. Bea Exner Liu gives us this memoir during her later years she will turn 88 as the book is published it is with remarkable clarity and insight that she recalls the adventure that was her life. "Remembering China is a wonderful gift a rich tapestry of fascinating detail about life in China during the way years. But it is much more than simply the travelogue of an American adventurer (which Bea Liu certainly is) , or even the compendium of her perceptive and often witty observations of wartime life in China. Meeting the everyday heroics and villanies in another culture, at another time, gives readers a window on their own lives." Warren Wolfe, Minneapolis StarTribune |
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| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Memoir |
| Author(s): |
Liu,Bea -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
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| ISBN: | 0898231086 |
| Title: | Shadow Partisan |
| Price: | $8.95 |
| Year Published: | 1988 |
| Trim Size: | 6x9 |
| Pages | 180 |
| Book Description: | Ideologies sweep across post-war Europe and clash when a new Marxist regime confronts Church and the Old Ways in a small Yugoslav village. "It's part memoir, part docudrama, and part Grimm's fairy tale. Altogether, the leisurely narrative wonderfully evokes the bittersweet lost world, full of carefully drawn characters who would be at home in a Chagall painting, where family gossip and myth collaborate with political rumor and petty social conflict." Kirkus Reviews |
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| Cover Type: | Cloth |
| Subject: | Memoir |
| Author(s): |
Tesich,Nadia -- |
| Editor(s): | Unknown Editor |
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