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  • The Cubist and the Lost Notebooks of the Painter s Wife
    Diane Glancy
    Diane Glancy was working on two manuscripts. The prose poems of The Lost Notebooks of the Painter’s Wife and the variants of The Cubist. Notebooks was narrative; the other, in the Cubist style, looked at subjects from several perspectives. The manuscripts began calling to one other, though they seemed to have nothing in common. One day, she had the thought they could be the sam...
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    23,72 €

  • Quadrille
    Diane Glancy
    4 x 4The first words were footprints of the wind in our ears.Sometimes we cried with earache.We wrapped our heads in animal-skins.Our cries were feral in the dark.We packed dried berries and pieces of meatand camped for the night.We followed hoof-prints in the snow.We saw a tuft of animal-hair on a thorny branchjittering as we passedWe dreamed of it at night.We followed the cou...
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    10,37 €

  • The Mask Maker
    Diane Glancy
    In The Mask Maker, Diane Glancy tells the story of Edith Lewis, a recently divorced mixed-blood American Indian, as she travels the state of Oklahoma teaching students the art and custom of mask-making. A complex, subtle tale about flesh-and-blood human beings, this enchanting novel shows how one woman copes with alienation, loss, and questions about identity and, in the end, r...
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    24,19 €

  • Pushing the Bear
    Diane Glancy
    Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears tells the story of the Cherokees’ resettlement in the hard years following Removal, a story never before explored in fiction. In this sequel to her popular 1996 novel Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears, author Diane Glancy continues the tale of Cherokee brothers O-ga-na-ya and Knobowtee and their families, as well the Rev...
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    13,00 €

  • The Book of Bearings
    Diane Glancy
    The Book of Bearings puts the puzzle pieces of the New World together without a picture on the puzzle box. The characters struggle to situate themselves between what they were and what they are supposed to become. The poems include voices from the mid-nineteenth-century Cherokee Female Seminary in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and the mid-twentieth-century Eskimo experience in Alaska, a...
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    10,12 €

  • No Word for the Sea
    Diane Glancy
    No Word for the Sea is built on several layers of questioning: What is language? What is memory? Where does the mind go when the circuits shut down? The novel covers seven years in the lives of Solome and Stephen Savard in St. Paul, Minnesota. Stephen is provost at Cobson College, and Solome has raised three children. The events alternate between Stephen’s first-person narrativ...
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    20,20 €

  • The Servitude of Love
    Diane Glancy
    Love in one form or another is the commanding force of this new collection of short fiction. The Servitude of Love holds the revelations of love in different manifestations--love of work, love of another, love of journey, love of mission, love of justice, of foolishness, of duty. These thirteen stories take place along the north/south corridor of the central plains of America, ...
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    18,50 €

  • Mary Queen of Bees
    Diane Glancy
    Crippled in childhood, Mary Wesley, sister of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, speaks of the Wesley household in first-person narrative built on the facts of her life.Mary lived in a strict Christian family, one of 19 children, 10 of whom survived. Her mother, Susanna Wesley, imposed a regiment where ''not one child after a year old was heard to cry out.'' Her fath...
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    10,23 €

  • The Collector of Bodies
    Diane Glancy
    A 1994 trip to Syria and Jordan as an Arts America Speaker for the United States Information Agency began the group of poems for The Collector of Bodies. The manuscript stayed in a file until the Civil War began in Syria, March 18, 2011, the author’s 70th birthday. The poems were retrieved, and the manuscript continued.Glancy wrote as an observer--as someone who had talked to t...
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    14,26 €

  • Ironic Witness
    Diane Glancy
    A minister’s wife finds herself in hell. The story of Lazarus and the rich man in Luke 16:19-31 gives a chilling insight into the afterlife. It is a story that is not often addressed because it makes clear the separation of people upon death. Frank Winscott, a retired minister, works at comparing translations of the Bible. Eugena has ignored her husband’s work and his sermons a...
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    21,42 €

  • One of Us
    Diane Glancy
    Many towns have their murderers, but are they also members of a church, a Boy Scout leader, or president of the congregation? Could they be trusted to bring a covered dish faithfully to church suppers? This novel takes the BTK murders in Wichita, Kansas, as inspiration to question issues of evil. How could a man commit murder and yet sit in church all those years until he was c...
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    28,44 €

  • Uprising of Goats
    Diane Glancy
    A professor hears the voices of Biblical women. She begins writing. What was it like for Dorcas to die and be brought back to life? What was it like for Philip’s daughters to live with the threat of persecution after Christ was crucified? What did Miriam feel when she sat in the leprosy tent? What did they all say as the professor wove her own story between their voices? It was...
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    23,19 €

  • The Reason for Crows
    Diane Glancy
    The story of a 17th century Mohawk woman’s interaction with her land, the Jesuits, and the religion they brought.In The Reason for Crows, award-winning author Diance Glancy retells the story of Kateri Tekakwitha, a seventeenth-century Mohawk woman who converted to Christianity and later became known as the 'Lily of the Mohawks.' Left frail, badly scarred, and nearly blind from ...
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    27,19 €

  • American Gypsy
    Diane Glancy
    In American Gypsy, a collection of six plays, Diane Glancy uses a mélange of voices to invoke the myths and realities of modern Native American life. Glancy intermixes poetry and prose to address themes of gender, generational relationships, acculturation, myth, and tensions between Christianity and traditional Native American belief systems. The six plays included, 'The Woman ...
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    31,15 €