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Books : Literature & Fiction : Authors, A-Z : ( B ) : Bell, Madison Smartt
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With clarity, verve, and the sure instincts of a good teacher, Madison Smartt Bell offers a roll-up-your-sleeves approach to writing in this much-needed book. Focusing on the big picture as well as the crucial details, Bell examines twelve stories by both established writers (including Peter Taylor, Mary Gaitskill, and Carolyn Chute) and his own former students. A story's use of time, plot, character, and other elements of fiction are analyzed, and readers are challenged to see each story's flaws and strengths. Careful endnotes bring attention to the ways in which various writers use language. Bell urges writers to develop the habit of thinking about form and finding the form that best suits their subject matter and style. His direct and practical advice allows writers to find their own voice and imagination.
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For the first time in paperback, Everett's "comic and fierce"* novel of the Old West The unlikely narrator through this tale of misadventures is one Curt Marder: gambler, drinker, cheat, and would-be womanizer. It's 1871, and he's lost his farm, his wife, and his dog to a band of marauding hooligans. With
nothing to live on but a desire to recover what is rightfully his, Marder is forced to enlist the help of the best tracker in the West: a black man named Bubba.
"I loved this book. God's Country is like no western I've ever read before: a wonderfully strange and darkly hilarious brew of Kafka and García Márquez, of Twilight Zone and F-Troop, with cameo appearances by Walt Whitman
and George Custer thrown in for good measure. Percival Everett has written a terrific book, a Wild West road trip that challenges our assumptions about what human dignity really means."
—Bret Lott, author of Jewel: A Novel
"An outrageously funny, alarmingly serious, highly enjoyable novel."
—Amanda Heller, The Boston Globe
"This wild novel of the West is comic and fierce, turn by turn; it follows white and black and red men down their several paths through God's Country, and the reader tracks them with a sense of shocked delight."
—*Nicholas Delbanco, author of What Remains
"Mr. Everett is successful combining heart with rage. . . . The novel sears."
—David Bowman, The New York Times Book Review
Percival Everett is the author of eleven novels including the recent Erasure, which won the inaugural Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction. He lives with his wife on a small ranch and teaches at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
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The Stone that the Builder Refused is the final volume of Madison Smartt Bell’s masterful trilogy about the Haitian Revolution–the first successful slave revolution in history–which begins with All Souls' Rising (a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award) and continues with Master of the Crossroads. Each of these three novels can be read independently of the two others; of the trilogy, The Baltimore Sun has said, “[It] will make an indelible mark on literary history–one worthy of occupying the same shelf as Tolstoy’s War and Peace.”
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Marian died by her own hand exactly one year ago. The author approaches Marian's death from the viewpoints of the people that touched her life including her lover, her best friend, and even her enemies.
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Madison Smartt Bell is one of the most versatile and gifted authors of his generation, a literary stylist with few peers. Doctor Sleep, one of his best novels, is a taut and satisfying psychological thriller planned to be released as a major motion picture under the title Hypnotic. Adrian Strother is a hypnotherapist who, paradoxically, can't get to sleep. He plies his trade in a depressed section of London, doing the occasional job for Scotland Yard, which brings him into contact with an unsavory drug trafficker. As little girls become the target of a serial killer, Adrian treads the line between tortured wakefulness and surreal sleep, and the gifts of his insomnia are called upon to unlock the secrets of a man who believes he has discovered the key to immortality. Part spiritual pilgrimage, part thriller, Doctor Sleep is witty, menacing, and deeply satisfying, a bravura performance by one of today's finest writers.
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From the Haiti of 200 years ago in his most recent, highly acclaimed novel, All Souls' Rising, Bell returns to our own moment, to the racial lines that have riven contemporary America. An edgy, powerful, deeply affecting story of possibility, Ten Indians tells the fast-paced, complex tale of a man who opens a Tae Kwon Do school in a black neighborhood in inner-city Baltimore--and finds himself compelled to enter the lives of his students when the brutality of streets spills into his life.
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A man returns home from Vietnam to his now abandoned family homestead outside of Nashville, suffering from a serious psychological wound incurred in combat. He meets up with a childhood friend who is black, and together they battle against a platoon of Klansmen for the literal salvation of a local preacher.
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Making their living by forcing strangers to withdraw money for them from automatic cash machines, Macrae and Charlie hook up with a black ex-con called Porter, who teaches them the perils of an unexamined life. 12,500 first printing.
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Short stories
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When little girls become the victims of a serial killer's rage, an insomniac's gifts come violently into play in this riveting novel by one of today's greatest writers--author of Barking Man and Other Stories and Waiting for the End of the World.
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Contributors to this issue include: Penelope Austin, Aliki Barnstone, Bruce Beasley, Geoffrey Becker, John Bensko, Dinah Berland, Kate Borowske, Michael Collier, Carolyn Cooke, Wyn Cooper, Theodore Deppe, Timothy Donnelly, Walt Foreman, Carol Frost, George Garrett, Frank X. Gaspar, Brian Glaser, Greg Glazner, Loren Graham, Laurie Greer, Allen Grossman, Jeffrey Harrison, William Heyen, Mary-Beth Hughes, Cynthia Huntington, Jonathan David Jackson, Josephine Jacobsen, Bethalee Jones, Cynthia Kadohata, Samara Kanegis, Erika Krouse, Maxine Kumin, David Lehman, Phillis Levin, Kathy Mangan, Cleopatra Mathis, John McManus, Jonathan Musgrove, D. Nurkse, Sue Owen, Patrick Phillips, Stanley Plumly, Lia Purpura, John Robinson, Jane Shore, Christine Stewart, Susan Stewart, Virgil Suarez, Jennifer Tseng, Michael Tyrell, Belle Waring, Michael Waters, Charles Harper Webb, Mark Wunderlich, C. Dale Young, Andrew Zawacki
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This digital document is an article from The Review of Contemporary Fiction, published by Review of Contemporary Fiction on June 22, 1993. The length of the article is 3256 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: William T. Vollmann's narrative technique combines the intratextual maneuvers of the metafictionist with the sincerity of 19th-century authors such as Trollope and Dickens. He gains the trust of the reader by claiming to be a witness, rather than a creator, of the events he portrays. By combining New Journalism with the aesthetic flare of Poe, Vollmann is able to manipulate a work without causing the narrative voice to become suspect. The result is a relationship of good faith between reader and writer.
Citation Details
Title: Where an author might be standing. (on William T. Vollmann)
Author: Madison Smartt Bell
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1993
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: v13 Issue: n2 Page: p39(7)
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