Maile Meloy
Autore di The Apothecary
Sull'Autore
Maile Meloy was born in Helena, Montana on January 1, 1972. She received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College and an M.F.A. in fiction from the University of California, Irvine. Her works include Liars and Saints, A Family Daughter, and The Apothecary. She has won numerous awards including The mostra altro Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction for her story, Aqua Boulevard, in 2001; the PEN/Malamud Award for Half in Love in 2003; and the California Book Awards Silver Medal for Fiction for Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It. She has also received the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004. In 2007, she was chosen as one of Granta's 21 Best Young American Novelists. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Serie
Opere di Maile Meloy
The Proxy Marriage 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes (2016) — Collaboratore — 18 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1972-01-01
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Helena, Montana, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Helena, Montana, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA - Istruzione
- University of California, Irvine
Harvard College - Attività lavorative
- fiction writer
- Relazioni
- Meloy, Colin (brother)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- PEN/Malamud Award (2003)
Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists (2007)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 13
- Opere correlate
- 8
- Utenti
- 4,170
- Popolarità
- #6,038
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 226
- ISBN
- 146
- Lingue
- 9
- Preferito da
- 6
Meloy's perfectly written stories are about yearning and frustration (which, we all know, are the essential themes of middle-class, middle-age life, even if you're not married--or middle-aged). Sad as the stories were, I admired the writing and insight tremendously.
My favorite story, and probably the most lighthearted, was "Lilliana," wherein a rich old grandma comes back from the dead, but not really.
Finally, the title of the book, taken from a poem by A.R. Ammons, really does sum it up well. To quote one of the stories, "The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?"… (altro)