LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jo barney

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  • Long Road Through the Forest
    Jo Barney
    An old woman, not that she thinks of herself that way, sits quietly reading as she has done every evening for years.  The night is rainy, dark, but she ignores the weather, as she does most negative scenes, until she hears a knock, a plaintive knock, at her door. Too plaintive to be a threat. A wet, red-headed, dirty teenager stands at her door, the kind of street kid Alicia ha...
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    15,87 €

  • Hat Trick
    Jo Barney
    Mom has just died, is a patch of floating dust on the Columbia slough. We see the world through the eyes of her ex-hockey player son: divorced, depressed, ready to settle in for thirteen more weeks of unemployment checks, beer, and reading his mother’s books, not thinking, if he can help it, about what happened the last time he was on the ice. Along with her library, Mom has al...
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    17,49 €

  • Wednesday Club
    Jo Barney
    Half of Jan Morrison’s life is pure chaos, the half that has to do with her family, her sense of wifeliness, motherliness, womanliness.  The other half, the half in which she counsels children whose own lives are as chaotic as hers, is the core of her days, and she is pretty successful at it even though she comes to school hungover, popping breath mints, unsympathetic toward li...
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    19,80 €

  • Hedges
    Jo Barney
    The time is 1970; the place is the postwar housing development, the small bungalows built for returning veterans and for shipyard workers. F0r first time in their lives, families had some money. They can afford a new house, two bedrooms, one bath, yards big enough to build a garage in. They begin again, this time without war. The neighborhood fills with working husbands and st...
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    16,75 €