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The Soap Game

The Soap Game

The Soap Game

Marie Sheppard Williams

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Editorial:
iUniverse
Año de edición:
2005
Materia
Antologías (no poéticas)
ISBN:
9780595370108
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PRAISE FOR THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF THE HANDICAPPED:’.irreverent.vibrant.sensitive without ever approaching sanctimony.'-Publisher’s Weekly, starred review’It’s a wonderful book!'-Bill Holm, Minnesota Author of The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth’Worldwide Church is an absolute joy.'-Anne Lamott, author of Traveling Mercies and Bird by Bird’This is a wonderful book.'-Dave Wood, Minneapolis Star-Tribune’It is one of the most important books of our time.'-Carol Bly, author of Changing the Bully Who Rules the World, and winner of the Minnesota Book Award’I have not, in long time, read stories that affected me so much.'-Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States'[Williams’] characters are unique and unforgettable.This is a disarming, disturbing book.'-Maxine Kumin, winner of the Pulitzer PrizePRAISE FOR THE WEEKEND GIRL:’Read these stories and be changed.Marie Sheppard Williams is an original and necessary voice in American Fiction.'-Frederick Smock, former editor of The American Voice’.tender stories.deliciously simple dialogue.sly humor.and you suddenly know you are reading about life and death.'-Howard Zinn’The Weekend Girl and other stories is a compelling and poignant brew of wisdom, humor, and compassion.'-Ronald Spatz, editor, Alaska Quarterly Review’As Walt Whitman might have said: ’Who touches this book touches a [wo]man.’'-Bill Holm

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