Village with Blue Doors - Steinbach, Meredith
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Meredith Steinbach's latest novel, Village with Blue Doors, is the literary prequel to her 2013 Paris Book Festival Winner, The Charmed Life of Flowers: Field Notes from Provence. Village with Blue Doors is a dark comedy that has its characters addressing issues of equality, forgiveness, and sheer survival in a modern day fairy tale. The tale begins with the engagement and the impromptu party in Cafe Rousseau for Pearl Queneau, the little albino school teacher, and Ambrose le Beau, the one-eyed, gigantic, conductor of the children's symphony. By noon on the following day, however, The Flash…mehr

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Meredith Steinbach's latest novel, Village with Blue Doors, is the literary prequel to her 2013 Paris Book Festival Winner, The Charmed Life of Flowers: Field Notes from Provence. Village with Blue Doors is a dark comedy that has its characters addressing issues of equality, forgiveness, and sheer survival in a modern day fairy tale. The tale begins with the engagement and the impromptu party in Cafe Rousseau for Pearl Queneau, the little albino school teacher, and Ambrose le Beau, the one-eyed, gigantic, conductor of the children's symphony. By noon on the following day, however, The Flash Flood Unforeseeable has already shaken up nearly everything for the new couple, and for Pere Martin and the other eight-hundred citizens of St. X. Cover and book were designed by Mary Tiegreen. Author photo by Zach S. Hartman.
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Meredith Steinbach is the award-winning author of literary novels Village with Blue Doors, Beata Rustica: The Tale of the Would-Be Saint, The Charmed Life of Flowers: Field Notes from Provence, The Birth of the World as We Know It; or, Teiresias, Zara, Here Lies The Water, one play, a screenplay, and numerous short stories including her collection Reliable Light. Several novels and another short fiction collection are forthcoming. Prizes and honors have included Winner, 2013 Paris Book Festival / International General Fiction Category for The Charmed Life of Flowers; Honorable Mention, 2012 New England Book Festival/ General Fiction Category also for The Charmed Life of Flowers; Thomas J. Watson Institute Travel Grant for research in France and Greece; the Bunting Fellowship of Radcliffe College at Harvard University; O. Henry Award for the Short Story; 100 Distinguished Stories, Best American Short Stories; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; Pushcart Prize for the Short Story, Rhode Island State Artist's Grants, the University of Iowa Fairall Prize for Fiction Writers, among others. Meredith Steinbach lives on the Rhode Island coast with her family, and an immense Great Pyrenees mountain dog and a spin-dancing corgi. She is Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University.