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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Author	: Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher	: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Release Date	: 2014-02-25
ISBN 10	: 9780142180822
Pages	: 322 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (88 users)

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Download or read book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves written by Karen Joy Fowler and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming of age in middle America, 18-year-old Rosemary evaluates how her entire youth was defined by the presence and forced removal of an endearing chimpanzee who was secretly regarded as a family member and who Rosemary loved as a sister. By the best-selling author of The Jane Austen Book Club.

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Author	: Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher	: Serpent's Tail
Release Date	: 2014-03-06
ISBN 10	: 9781782830207
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (32 users)

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Download or read book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves written by Karen Joy Fowler and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *PRE-ORDER KAREN JOY FOWLER'S NEW NOVEL, BOOTH, TODAY* 'Wise, provocative and wildly endearing' Guardian 'Readably juicy and surreptitiously smart' Barbara Kingsolver THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Rosemary doesn't talk much, and about certain things she's silent. She had a sister, Fern, her whirlwind other half, who vanished from her life in circumstances she wishes she could forget. And it's been ten years since she last saw her beloved older brother Lowell. Now at college, Rosemary starts to see she can't go forward without going back to the time when aged five, she was sent away from home to her grandparents and returned to find Fern gone. It was Rosemary's parents who began all of the trouble - isn't it always? But, dear reader, exactly how they did it is a twist you'll have to discover for yourself.

The Representation of Rosemary's Memory in Karen Joy Fowler's "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves"

Author	: Farisa Chamajewa
Publisher	: GRIN Verlag
Release Date	: 2022-10-28
ISBN 10	: 9783346753960
Pages	: 35 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (539 users)

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Download or read book The Representation of Rosemary's Memory in Karen Joy Fowler's "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves" written by Farisa Chamajewa and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: The aim of this thesis is to examine the manipulation of memory by Rosemary Cooke in Karen Joy Fowler’s novel "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves". To this end, different aspects which are linked to the representation of memory will be looked at. The first aspect is the construction of memory. This is crucial to distinguish between the non-linear narrative and the actual timeline. Essential questions are: What is the timeline of the story? Who manipulates memory? How is it manipulated? Also, unreliability linked to the mental time travel that as a narrative technique will be looked at. Fowler uses Franz Kafka’s “A Report for an Academy” as an intertext in her novel. Passages from the text appear before every chapter and leave a space of interpretation for the reader. The last chapter of this thesis presents a brief analysis of the report, with a special focus on the Ape’s memory and how he considers being a human as a way of being free. Clearly, through a stream of consciousness point of view, it is Rosemary who tells the story. However, her family members had a great impact on her mental health and the way she receives information as a minor. Therefore, it is important to take into consideration whether her memories are intentionally falsified or whether this happens subconsciously. Second, a focus lies on the unreliability of the narrator. The loss of Fern causes traumatic stress responses in the family members. It is particularly Rosemary who suffers from her loss; therefore, her grieving causes her to develop a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Hence, even though she avoids her past, she recalls vivid memories, both good and bad ones. To identify whether she is an unreliable or reliable narrator, certain categories of unreliability as a literary device will be discussed. To some extent, Fowler puts the audience in a challenging ethical position when revealing why Fern had to be separated from the family. However, the reason is not narrated by Rosemary until the last third of the novel. Therefore, the reader gets an insight into the narrator’s psyche to avoid biases against her. Furthermore, the chapter addresses Rosemary’s identity crisis and how it affects her role as a narrator. Also, unreliability linked to the mental time travel that as a narrative technique will be looked at.

Animal Writing

Author	: Danielle Sands
Publisher	: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date	: 2019-08-21
ISBN 10	: 9781474439053
Pages	: 224 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (39 users)

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Download or read book Animal Writing written by Danielle Sands and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining recent insights from animal studies, critical plant studies and the new materialisms, Danielle Sands reads fiction and philosophy alongside each other to propose a method of thinking of and with animals that draws on a bestiary of affects. She challenges the claim that empathy should be primary mode of engagement with nonhuman life. Instead, she looks at the stories that we tell, and are told, by insects - beings at the edges of animal life. The indifference, even disgust, that these creatures evoke in us forms the basis for a new ethics not limited by empathy. Along the way she encounters fiction writers Yann Martel, Karen Joy Fowler, Han Kang and Jim Crace beside the philosophy of Graham Harman, Donna Haraway, Jacques Derrida and Roger Caillois.

Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context [4 volumes]

Author	: Linda De Roche
Publisher	: ABC-CLIO
Release Date	: 2021-06-30
ISBN 10	: 9781440853593
Pages	: 1348 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (535 users)

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Download or read book Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context [4 volumes] written by Linda De Roche and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume reference work surveys American literature from the early 20th century to the present day, featuring a diverse range of American works and authors and an expansive selection of primary source materials. Bringing useful and engaging material into the classroom, this four-volume set covers more than a century of American literary history—from 1900 to the present. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context profiles authors and their works and provides overviews of literary movements and genres through which readers will understand the historical, cultural, and political contexts that have shaped American writing. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context provides wide coverage of authors, works, genres, and movements that are emblematic of the diversity of modern America. Not only are major literary movements represented, such as the Beats, but this work also highlights the emergence and development of modern Native American literature, African American literature, and other representative groups that showcase the diversity of American letters. A rich selection of primary documents and background material provides indispensable information for student research. Covers significant authors, as well as those neglected by history, and their works from major historical and cultural periods of the last century, including authors writing today Situates authors' works not only within their own canon but also with the historical and cultural context of the U.S. more broadly Positions primary documents after specific authors or works, allowing readers to read excerpts critically in light of the entries Examines literary movements, forms, and genres that also pay special attention to multi-ethnic and women writers

Booth

Author	: Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2022-03-08
ISBN 10	: 9780593331446
Pages	: 481 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (314 users)

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Download or read book Booth written by Karen Joy Fowler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Book of the Year Real Simple • AARP • USA Today • NPR • Virginia Living Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth. In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth—breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean actor, and master of the house in more ways than one—is at once a mesmerizing talent and a man of terrifying instability. One by one the children arrive, as year by year, the country draws frighteningly closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war. As the tenor of the world shifts, the Booths emerge from their hidden lives to cement their place as one of the country’s leading theatrical families. But behind the curtains of the many stages they have graced, multiple scandals, family triumphs, and criminal disasters begin to take their toll, and the solemn siblings of John Wilkes Booth are left to reckon with the truth behind the destructively specious promise of an early prophecy. Booth is a startling portrait of a country in the throes of change and a vivid exploration of the ties that make, and break, a family.

The Jane Austen Book Club

Author	: Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher	: Penguin UK
Release Date	: 2015-03-12
ISBN 10	: 9780241973707
Pages	: 304 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (737 users)

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Download or read book The Jane Austen Book Club written by Karen Joy Fowler and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving, wise and delightfully modern comedy of manners from the bestselling, Man Booker shortlisted author Karen Joy Fowler. Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable - under the guiding eye of Jane Austen a couple of them even fall in love... 'A thoroughly delightful comedy of contemporary manners' Entertainment Weekly Karen Joy Fowler is the Man Booker shortlisted, bestselling author of Sister Noon (a PEN/Faulkner prize finalist), Sarah Canary, The Sweetheart Season, The Jane Austen Book Club, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and the story collection Black Glass. She is a PEN/Faulkner Prize finalist and lives in Davis and Santa Cruz, California.

Sarah Canary

Author	: Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher	: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Release Date	: 2004-08-03
ISBN 10	: 0452286476
Pages	: 304 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (76 users)

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Download or read book Sarah Canary written by Karen Joy Fowler and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two unlikely people form an unexpected bond in bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler’s captivating historical novel—a New York Times Notable Book. When black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a Chinese labor camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ordered by his uncle to escort “the ugliest woman he could imagine” away. Far away. But Chin soon becomes the follower. In the first of many such instances, they are separated, both resurfacing some days later at an insane asylum. Chin has run afoul of the law and Sarah has been committed for observation. Their escape from the asylum in the company of another inmate sets into motion a series of adventures and misadventures that are at once hilarious, deeply moving, and downright terrifying. “Powerfully imagined...Drop everything and follow Sarah Canary....Humor and horror, history and myth dance cheek to cheek in this Jack London meets L. Frank Baum world....Here is a work that manages to be at the same time (and often in the same sentence) dark and deep and fun.”—The Washington Post Book World

The Sweetheart Season

Author	: Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher	: Penguin UK
Release Date	: 2006-07-27
ISBN 10	: 9780141957081
Pages	: 368 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (57 users)

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Download or read book The Sweetheart Season written by Karen Joy Fowler and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-07-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm and witty novel from the bestselling, Man Booker shortlisted author Karen Joy Fowler. 'Polls have recently confirmed what has long been suspected; most men do not want brainy women. Stewardesses have turned out to be that occupation blessed most often with marriage. The key elements appear to be uniforms and travel.' It is 1947 and in the aftermath of World War II halcyon days have not returned to Magrit, Minnesota, where the veterans have failed to come home. The men haven't died; they've just moved onto greener pastures, rejecting the local women, who served the war effort in the Scientific Kitchen of Margaret Mill. The mill was founded by Henry Collins, the man responsible for Sweetwheats, the world's first puffed and sugar-coated cereal. As part of a publicity campaign, Henry creates the Sweetwheats Sweethearts all-girl baseball team, convincing the mill girls that this will help them find husbands.

Wit's End

Author	: Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher	: Putnam Adult
Release Date	: 2008
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015076122368
Pages	: 324 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (57 users)

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Download or read book Wit's End written by Karen Joy Fowler and published by Putnam Adult. This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when readers steal your characters? Rima Lanisell is about to find out when she visits her estranged godmother, Addison Early, the successful mystery writer of the Maxwell Lane mysteries, and discovers the truth behind Addison's novels.

BOOTH

Author	: Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher	: Serpent's Tail
Release Date	: 2022-03-17
ISBN 10	: 9781788168656
Pages	: 450 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (686 users)

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Download or read book BOOTH written by Karen Joy Fowler and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 OPEN BOOK 'Accomplished, immersive and profoundly satisfying' Cathy Rentzenbrink 'Effortlessly resonant ... breathes rich imaginative colour in her characters' Daily Telegraph From the million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the infamous, ill-fated Booth family. SIX BROTHERS AND SISTERS. ONE INJUSTICE THAT WILL SHATTER THEIR BOND FOREVER. Junius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor who fled bigamy charges in England, both a mesmerising talent and a man of terrifying instability. As his children grow up in a remote farmstead in 1830s rural Baltimore, the country draws ever closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war. Of the six Booth siblings who survive to adulthood, each has their own dreams they must fight to realise - but it is Johnny who makes the terrible decision that will change the course of history - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Booth is a riveting novel focused on the very things that bind, and break, a family. 'In its stretch and imaginative depth, Booth has an utterly seductive authority' Guardian 'Karen Joy Fowler's novels are wildly inventive and deservedly popular' Daily Mail 'Booth is a triumph!' Ruth Ozeki 'Captures with enthralling vividness a country caught in the grip of fanatical populism, ripped apart by irreconcilable political differences and boiling with fury and rage ... An unalloyed triumph' Literary Review 'Brilliantly recounts the story of the American theatrical dynasty that produced Lincoln's assassin' Sunday Times Book of the Month 'Her finest, most beautiful novel to date' Neel Mukherjee

The Case of the Imaginary Detective

Author	: Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher	: Penguin UK
Release Date	: 2015-03-12
ISBN 10	: 9780141918389
Pages	: 336 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (183 users)

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Download or read book The Case of the Imaginary Detective written by Karen Joy Fowler and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rima Lanisell has a habit of losing things - car keys, sunglasses, lovers, family members. Following the death of Rima's father, she goes to stay with her godmother Addison, a wildly successful, albeit eccentric, mystery writer. Addison's beach house seems the place to make sense of Rima's loss, yet she is soon caught up in a mystery of her own. Who stole a small and highly valuable object from Addison's kitchen? Why is Rima corresponding with an obsessive fan, using someone else's family name? Most importantly: what exactly was the relationship between Addison and Rima's father, and why did Addison name a murderer after him in one of her novels? A funny, sad and wise literary mystery from the author of The Jane Austen Book Club.

What I Didn't See

Author	: Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher	: Small Beer Press
Release Date	: 2010-09-28
ISBN 10	: 1931520933
Pages	: 208 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (33 users)

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Download or read book What I Didn't See written by Karen Joy Fowler and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Karen Joy Fowler: "No contemporary writer creates characters more appealing, or examines them with greater acuity and forgiveness."—Michael Chabon "Fowler's witty writing is a joy to read."—USA Today World Fantasy Award Winner In her moving and elegant new collection, New York Times bestseller Karen Joy Fowler writes about John Wilkes Booth's younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, and a pair of twins, and she digs into our past, present, and future in the quiet, witty, and incisive way only she can. The sinister and the magical are always lurking just below the surface: for a mother who invents a fairy-tale world for her son in "Halfway People"; for Edwin Booth in "Edwin's Ghost," haunted by his fame as "America's Hamlet" and his brother's terrible actions; for Norah, a rebellious teenager facing torture in "The Pelican Bar" as she confronts Mama Strong, the sadistic boss of a rehabilitation facility; for the narrator recounting her descent in "What I Didn't See." With clear and insightful prose, Fowler's stories measure the human capacities for hope and despair, brutality and kindness. This collection, which includes two Nebula Award winners, is sure to delight readers, even as it pulls the rug out from underneath them. Karen Joy Fowler (karenjoyfowler.com) is the author of five novels, including Wit's End, PEN/Faulkner finalist Sister Noon, and New York Times bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club. Her collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award. Fowler and her husband, who have two grown children, live in Santa Cruz, California.

Booth

Author	: Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher	: Serpent's Tale
Release Date	: 2022-03-03
ISBN 10	: 1788169670
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (7 users)

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Download or read book Booth written by Karen Joy Fowler and published by Serpent's Tale. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sister Noon

Author	: Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher	: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Release Date	: 2002-05-28
ISBN 10	: 0452283280
Pages	: 336 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (8 users)

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Download or read book Sister Noon written by Karen Joy Fowler and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 2002-05-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loosely based in historical fact, Sister Noon is a wryly funny, playfully mysterious, and totally subversive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club. Lizzie Hayes, a member of the San Francisco elite, is a seemingly docile, middle-aged spinster praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies Relief and Protection Society Home, or "The Brown Ark". All she needs is the spark that will liberate her from the ruling conventions. When the wealthy and well-connected, but ill-reputed Mary Ellen Pleasant shows up at the Brown Ark, Lizzie is drawn to her. It is the beautiful, but mysterious Mary Ellen, an outcast among the women of the elite because of her notorious past and her involvement in voodoo, who will eventually hold the key to unlocking Lizzie's rebellious nature.

Black Glass

Author	: Karen Jay Fowler
Publisher	: Henry Holt and Company
Release Date	: 1998-02-15
ISBN 10	: 0805055576
Pages	: 256 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (76 users)

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Download or read book Black Glass written by Karen Jay Fowler and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 1998-02-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen short stories rife with irony, historical overtones, and a feeling for the picaresque include accounts of Carry Nation's fight against topless bars and Tonto's fortieth birthday, which passes without well wishes from the Lone Ranger.

Artificial Things

Author	: Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher	: Spectra
Release Date	: 1986
ISBN 10	: 055326219X
Pages	: 218 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (9 users)

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Download or read book Artificial Things written by Karen Joy Fowler and published by Spectra. This book was released on 1986 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nominee for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer presents a selection of her outstanding short stories, including "Praxis," "The Popular Street Study," and "The Gate of Ghosts"