Laura Furman

Mother Who Stayed

Stories

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Furman presents nine meticulously crafted stories that contemplate and celebrate the domestic life of several generations of mothers and would-be mothers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Free Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 325g
• ISBN-13: 9781439194652
• ISBN-10: 1439194653
• Artikelnr.: 30415929

Autorenporträt

Laura Furman was born in New York, and educated in New York City public schools and at Bennington College. Her first story appeared in The New Yorker in 1976, and since then her work has been published in many magazines, including Yale Review, Southwest Review, Ploughshares, American Scholar, Preservation, House & Garden, and other magazines. Her books include three collections of short stories, two novels, and a memoir. She is the recipient of fellowships from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Dobie Paisano Project, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has received grants in residency at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and in 2009 she was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. She taught for many years in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Series editor of The PEN/O.Henry Prize Stories since 2002, Furman selects the twenty winning stories each year. She lives in Central Texas.