Cathie Pelletier
Autore di Dancing at the Harvest Moon
Sull'Autore
Cathie Pelletier was born in Allagash, Maine in 1953. She received a B.A. from the University of Maine in 1976. She has written books under her own name and the pseudonym K. C. McKinnon. The books written under her own name include The Funeral Makers, A Marriage Made at Woodstock, The Summer mostra altro Experiment, and A Year After Henry. She has received several awards including the New England Booksellers Award for The Weight of Winter and the 2006 Paterson Prize for Running the Bulls. Under the pseudonym of K. C. McKinnon she wrote two novels, Dancing at the Harvest Moon and Candles on Bay Street. Both were adapted into television movies by CBS and Hallmark respectively. She writes country music lyrics. She has co-written several books with singers including 100 Ways to Beat the Blues with Tanya Tucker, The Christmas Note with Skeeter Davis, and The Ragin' Cajun with Doug Kershaw. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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(eng) Also writes under the pseudonym K.C. McKinnon.
Opere di Cathie Pelletier
Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions that Changed How We Look at the Universe (2019) 3 copie
Dancing at the Harvest Moon [2002 TV movie] — Writer — 2 copie
Et lys i m 1 copia
Os Amantes do Lago 1 copia
The Rearrangement 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- McKinnon, K.C.
- Data di nascita
- 1953-01
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Allagash, Maine, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Allagash, Maine, USA
Tennessee, USA - Istruzione
- University of Maine at Fort Kent
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
songwriter - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Paterson Prize (2006)
- Nota di disambiguazione
- Also writes under the pseudonym K.C. McKinnon.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 25
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 1,275
- Popolarità
- #20,120
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 31
- ISBN
- 97
- Lingue
- 11
- Preferito da
- 4
Mattie Gifford's three grown daughters invade her home in Mattagash, Maine, and flip on the TV because their brother, Sonny, has taken two female hostages, supposedly at gunpoint, and is holding them in a mobile home in Bangor that belongs to his estranged wife. Why he does this is a mystery — something to do do with his wife, something to do with his dog, something to do with starving children, something to do with John Lennon. Sonny just seems to be having a good time.
For three days the standoff is at the top of each newscast, and these four women, plus various neighbors, friends and other relatives watch to see what happens next. The supposed hostages seem happy to be where they are, Sonny being a charismatic young man whom every woman loves. That is, except for his three sisters, who have always resented that their mother loves him best. Mattie doesn't deny this, and even now during this crisis she wishes her daughters would just go to their own homes and leave her alone.
Her love for Sonny seems surprising. for he is so much like her late husband — handsome, always smiling, unambitious, irresistible to women and faithful to none. Sonny may be the same kind of man as his father, yet Mattie loves him more than anyone else, certainly more than she ever loved Lester.
Pelletier is so gifted with imagery that she almost overdoes it, tossing out a new metaphor before a reader can digest the last one. Among these images is a jigsaw puzzle Mattie is working on in which the eye of Jesus is missing. Only when she finds the missing eye and places it in the puzzle does this story come together — or fall apart, as the case may be.… (altro)