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Dale Loves Sophie to Death

Author : Robb Forman Dew
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2008-12-14
ISBN 10 : 9780316055390
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (55 downloads)

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Author : Robb Forman Dew
Publisher :
Release Date : 1982-05-27
ISBN 10 : 0147797675
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (147 downloads)

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The Time of Her Life

Author : Robb Forman Dew
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-10-31
ISBN 10 : 9780316090360
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (9 downloads)

Download The Time of Her Life PDF Format Full Free by Robb Forman Dew and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now restored to print -- the acclaimed second novel by the National Book Award-winning author of Dale Loves Sophie to Death and The Evidence Against Her. Claudia and Avery Parks, lovers since high school, are now in their thirties. Intelligent, charming, sympathetic, they seem to be the ideal couple, the perfect dinner-party guests, almost everything people should be -- except responsible. They are causally yet cruelly oblivious to the ways in which their words and actions affect other people, most particularly their talented 11-year-old daughter, who suffers the misfortune of being treated by her parents not as a child but as an equal. An engrossing domestic tale by a novelist of the first rank -- an ideal selection for reading groups. Robb Forman Dew's first novel, Dale Loves Sophie to Death, received the National Book Award in 1982.

The Evidence Against Her

Author : Robb Forman Dew
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2001-09-19
ISBN 10 : 9780759526068
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (526 downloads)

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The Truth of the Matter

Author : Robb Forman Dew
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2008-12-21
ISBN 10 : 9780316055963
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (55 downloads)

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Fortunate Lives

Author : Robb Forman Dew
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-11-29
ISBN 10 : 9780316090346
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (9 downloads)

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Being Polite to Hitler

Author : Robb Forman Dew
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-01-06
ISBN 10 : 9780316121729
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (121 downloads)

Download Being Polite to Hitler PDF Format Full Free by Robb Forman Dew and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After teaching and raising her family for most of her life, Agnes Scofield realizes that she is truly weary of the routine her life has become. But how, at 51, can she establish an identity apart from what has so long defined her? Often eloquent, sometimes blunt, and always full of fire, The Scofield clan is not a family that keeps its opinions to itself. As much as she'd like to, Agnes can no more deflect their adamant advice than she can step down as their matriarch. And despite her newfound freedom, Agnes finds herself becoming even more entangled in the family web. She shepherds her daughter-in-law, Lavinia, who moves in with her own two daughters to escape her husband's drinking. She puts out fires, smoothes fraying nerves, and, stunned as anyone, receives a marriage proposal. Having expected her life to become smaller, Agnes is amazed to see it grow instead. Robb Forman Dew intricately weaves together personal and family life into a richly wrought tapestry of the country in the 1950s and beyond. Being Polite to Hitler is a moving, frank, and surprising portrait of post-World War II America.

Family Heart

Author : Robb Forman Dew
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Release Date : 1995-05-16
ISBN 10 : 9780345394088
Pages : 242 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (394 downloads)

Download Family Heart PDF Format Full Free by Robb Forman Dew and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1995-05-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "ASTONISHINGLY MOVING...The Family Heart is a tough and challenging work, for it reminds us that empathy is a humble but radical virtue, if lived." --USA Today " I'm gay.' Every day, parents around the world hear those words from their children. Most are utterly unprepared for them. By writing The Family Heart, Robb Forman Dew has done such parents an extraordinary service." --The Washington Post Book World "TOUCHINGLY WRITTEN." --The Boston Globe "At the heart of this memoir lies a true epiphany: the author's sudden, galvanizing awareness of the suicidal consequences of homophobia. It is a chilling moment, and it is described with a writer's eloquence and a mother's rage....Dew's intense imagination, combined with her ignorance of homosexuality, was as much a hindrance as a help, and it is to her credit that she has recorded the occasionally wacky assumptions and painful readjustments of her own odyssey with such care and humor." --The New Yorker "POETIC, HONEST." --Fort Worth Star-Telegram "Eloquent and absorbing...The true testament of Mrs. Dew and her husband as parents, and the most powerful moments of this inspiring memoir, occur when they come out' to their community as parents of a gay child....Though Mrs. Dew imparts a lot of self-gained wisdom in this perceptive and beautifully articulated story, in the end she realizes she has something she has always had--a strong loving family and two good sons." --The Dallas Morning News "AMEN FROM ANY MOTHER, EVERY MOTHER." --Anna Quindlen The New York Times

Love's Virtues

Author : Mike W. Martin
Publisher :
Release Date : 1996
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015037759829
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

Download Love's Virtues PDF Format Full Free by Mike W. Martin and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a sensitive understanding of love and an unusually careful, even painstaking, analysis of the enormous but often neglected role of morality and the virtues in love. Martin's discussions of such virtues as caring, courage, fidelity, and honesty are superb, the examples well-chosen, the argument personal but nevertheless rigorous, the prose accessible and enjoyable to read.

The Family Heart

Author : Robb Forman Dew
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Release Date : 1994
ISBN 10 : 0201624508
Pages : 229 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (21 downloads)

Download The Family Heart PDF Format Full Free by Robb Forman Dew and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Dale Loves Sophie to Death depicts the depths of family love in this recounting of the time when her son told her that he was gay and the events that followed. 75,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Novel Ideas

Author : Barbara Shoup
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2013-05-01
ISBN 10 : 9780820346281
Pages : 343 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (346 downloads)

Download Novel Ideas PDF Format Full Free by Barbara Shoup and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel Ideas provides a substantial introduction to the elements of fiction followed by in-depth interviews with successful novelists who speak with candor and insight into the complex process by which a novel is made. This edition includes new and updated interviews as well as writing exercises to enhance its use in the writing classroom. Dorothy Allison recalls "deliciously self-indulgent" days of writing in her bathrobe, wrapped in misery and exultation; Peter Cameron explains how he made the move from short fiction to the novel with the aid of a music composer's notebook to track the movement of his characters. Writers as different as Ha Jin, Jill McCorkle, Richard Ford, and Michael Chabon describe their unique approaches to their work while consistently affirming the necessity of committing to the hard effort of it while also remaining open to surprise. Aspiring novelists will find hands-on strategies for beginning, working through, and revising a novel; accomplished novelists will discover new ways to solve the problems they face in process; and serious readers of contemporary fiction will enjoy a glimpse into the way novels are made. Includes interviews with:Dorothy AllisonLarry BrownPeter CameronMichael ChabonMichael CunninghamRobb Forman DewRichard FordHa JinPatricia HenleyCharles JohnsonWally LambValerie MartinJill McCorkleSena Jeter NaslundLewis NordanSheri ReynoldsS. J. RozanJane SmileyLee SmithTheodore Weesner

All the Finest Girls

Author : Alexandra Styron
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-02-28
ISBN 10 : 9780316068970
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (68 downloads)

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Conversations with American Novelists

Author : Kay Bonetti
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 1997
ISBN 10 : 0826211364
Pages : 276 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (826 downloads)

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Now Read this II

Author : Nancy Pearl
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Release Date : 2002
ISBN 10 : 1563088673
Pages : 324 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (563 downloads)

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Necessary Losses

Author : Judith Viorst
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-05-11
ISBN 10 : 9781439134863
Pages : 452 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (134 downloads)

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Sequels

Author : Janet G. Husband
Publisher : American Library Association
Release Date : 2009-07-30
ISBN 10 : 9780838909676
Pages : 793 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (99 downloads)

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Be Good, Sweet Maid

Author : Audrey Andrews
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Release Date : 2011-08-25
ISBN 10 : 9780889203839
Pages : 280 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (23 downloads)

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