Jill McCorkle
Autore di Life after Life
Sull'Autore
Five of Jill McCorkle's seven previous books have been named New York Times Notable Books. Winner of the New England Book Award, the John Dos Passos Award for Literature, and the North Carolina Award for Literature, she lives near Boston with her husband, their two children, several dogs, and a mostra altro collection of toads. mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Tom Rankin
Opere di Jill McCorkle
Opere correlate
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Collaboratore — 561 copie
Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories by Women Celebrating Women (1994) — Collaboratore — 150 copie
These United States: Original Essays by Leading American Writers on Their State within the Union by John Leonard (1995) — Collaboratore — 91 copie
Money Changes Everything: Twenty-Two Writers Tackle the Last Taboo with Tales of Sudden Windfalls, Staggering Debts,… (2007) — Collaboratore — 51 copie
Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South (2005) — Collaboratore — 47 copie
Christmas in the South: Holiday Stories from the South's Best Writers (2004) — Collaboratore — 26 copie
It's Only Rock and Roll: An Anthology of Rock and Roll Short Stories (1998) — Collaboratore — 23 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- McCorkle, Jill Collins
- Data di nascita
- 1958-07-07
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Lumberton, North Carolina, USA
- Istruzione
- University of North Carolina
Hollins College - Attività lavorative
- short story writer
novelist - Organizzazioni
- Fellowship of Southern Writers
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- John Dos Passos Prize (2000)
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 19
- Opere correlate
- 23
- Utenti
- 2,017
- Popolarità
- #12,764
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 149
- ISBN
- 79
- Lingue
- 3
- Preferito da
- 3
Quotes
Epigraph: "Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets." --Arthur Miller, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
There was a time when we had silence.
It was so quiet you could hear what someone said. ("The Lineman," 23)
They read aloud the descriptions in the program, the various plant names like incantations that might open the wrought iron gates and heavy, ancient doors that led to other lives: trumpet vines and bleeding hearts, astilbe, pulmonaria, laurel, lilac, euonymus. ("A Simple Question," 97)… (altro)