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Big as Life: Three Tales for Spring Paperback - 2002
by Maureen Howard
Summary
The second volume in Maureen Howard's planned quartet of fictions based on the seasons reaffirms her reputation as one of America's most highly regarded authors. In the title piece, Howard presents an ambitious exploration of the life and work of John James Audubon, revealing how his dedication to his masterpiece, The Birds of America, devoured everyone around him, including his wife, Lucy. In "Children with Matches," a feminist historian discovers that the hard lessons of the past may be a route to responsibility in the present. "The Magdalene" is a tale of willful innocence and loss of faith about a woman who comes to New York in the 1930s to be the nanny of a wealthy family. Thoughtful, intricate, and insightful, Howard's stories are compelling achievements.
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Imagine carp-flickering metallic orange, not gold.
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- Title Big as Life: Three Tales for Spring
- Author Maureen Howard
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date April 30, 2002
- ISBN 9780142001202 / 0142001201
- Weight 0.36 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 7.68 x 5.1 x 0.59 in (19.51 x 12.95 x 1.50 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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"A splendid new triptych of novellas." John Leonard, The New York Times Book Review
"Succeeds in gorgeously evoking the movement of lives and minds and emotion . . . This is a quiet, contemplative book of subtlety and grace, passion and commitment." The Atlantic Monthly
"Succeeds in gorgeously evoking the movement of lives and minds and emotion . . . This is a quiet, contemplative book of subtlety and grace, passion and commitment." The Atlantic Monthly
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