The Country of Pointed Firs and Other Stories

Overview

A writer comes one summer to Dunnet Landing, a Maine seacoast town, where she follows the lonely inhabitants of once-prosperous coastal towns. Here, lives are molded by the long Maine winters, rock-filled fields and strong resourceful women.

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Author Information

Bio of Sarah Orne Jewett

American novelist and short story writer. Her observations and readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe?s stories of New England?s life provided the inspiration for her efforts at fiction. Her depictions of New England?s life were described as ?poetic realism? by Edward Garnett. Deephaven (1877) was her first successful book. Her works include A Country Doctor (1884), A Marsh Island (1885), A White Heron (1886), The King of Folly Island (1888), The Life of Nancy (1895), The Tory Lover.

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Bio of Anita Shreve

ANITA SHREVE began writing fiction while working as a high school teacher. Although one of her first published stories, "Past the Island, Drifting," was awarded an O. Henry Prize in 1975, Shreve felt she couldn't make a living as a fiction writer so she became a journalist. She traveled to Africa, and spent three years in Kenya, writing articles that appeared in magazines such as Quest, US, and Newsweek. Back in the United States, she turned to raising her children and writing freelance articles for magazines. Shreve later expanded two of these articles -- both published in the New York Times Magazine -- into the nonfiction books Remaking Motherhood and Women Together, Women Alone. At the same time Shreve also began working on her first novel, Eden Close. With its publication in 1989, she gave up journalism for writing fiction full time, thrilled, as she says, with "the rush of freedom that I could make it up." Since Eden Close Anita Shreve has written eleven other novels: Strange Fits of Passion, Where or When, Resistance, The Weight of Water, The Pilot's Wife, Fortune's Rocks, The Last Time They Met, Sea Glass, All He Ever Wanted, Light on Snow, A Wedding in December and, most recently, Body Surfing. In 1998 Shreve received the PEN/L. L. Winship Award and the New England Book Award for fiction.

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Additional Info

Imprint

Signet Classics

Filesize

767.40 KB

Number of Pages

272

eBook ISBN

9780451531445