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A Memoir

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

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Kercheval recalls her life as a young girl living in Cocoa, Florida, in 1966, watching as her mother slipped into a Valium-induced state of apathy, her father became a workaholic, and her older sister tried to shoulder the burden.

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University of Wisconsin Pres

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0299300242

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9780299300241

Building Fiction

How to Develop Plot and Structure

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

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Building Fiction

How to Develop Plot and Structure

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

No one looks at structure like Jesse Lee Kercheval. She builds a work of fiction just as an architect would design a house--with an eye for details and how all parts of a story or novel interconnect. Even with the most dynamic language, images, and characters, no piece of fiction will work without a strong infrastructure. Kercheval shows how to build that structure using such tools as point of view, characterization, pacing, and flashbacks. Building Fiction will help you envision the landscape of your fiction and build great stories there.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299187241

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9780299187248

Cinema Muto

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

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Cinema Muto

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

In Cinema Muto, Jesse Lee Kercheval examines the enduring themes of time, mortality, and love as revealed through the power of silent film. Following the ten days of the annual Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Italy, this collection of ekphrastic poems are love letters to the evocative power of silent cinema. Kercheval’s poems elegantly capture the allure of these rare films, which compel hundreds of pilgrims from around the world—from scholars and archivists, to artists and connoisseurs—to flock to Italy each autumn. Cinema Muto celebrates the flickering tales of madness and adventure, drama and love, which are all too often left to decay within forgotten vaults. As reels of Mosjoukine and D. W. Griffith float throughout the collection, a portrait also emerges of the simple beauty of Italy in October and of two lovers who are drawn together by their mutual passion for an extinct art. Together they revel in recapturing “the black and white gestures of a lost world.” Cinema Muto is a tender tribute to the brief yet unforgettable reign of silent film. Brimming with stirring images of dreams, desire, and the ghosts of cinema legends gone by, Kercheval’s verse is a testament to the mute beauty and timeless lessons that may still be discovered in a fragile roll of celluloid.

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SIU Press

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080932895X

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9780809328956

Building Fiction

How to Develop Plot and Structure

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

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How to Develop Plot and Structure

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Dog Angel

Poems

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

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Dog Angel

Poems

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

esse Lee Kercheval writes with wit, vivid language, and devastating honesty in these autobiographical poems. Tracing the timelines of her life forward and backward, she offers a moving examination of the role of family and the possible/probable/hoped for existence of God—and how our perceptions of the divine can be transformed from a kindergartner’s dyslexically scrawled "doG loves U" to the ever-present but oft-ignored Dog Angel of the title. Ranging from a cross-country drive to bury her mother’s ashes at Arlington National Cemetery, to a family vacation in Spain, to an imagined final exam given by her children, Kercheval explores the vagaries of love, loss, faith, grief, and joy with a calm, convincing wisdom that permeates this resonant and wonderful collection.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822991721

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I Want to Tell You

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

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I Want to Tell You

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

In Jesse Lee Kercheval’s sixth collection, I Want To Tell You, her searching, incantatory poems speak directly and forcefully to the reader in a voice that is by turns angry, elegiac, wry, or witty but always sharply alive. Crossing through the bewildering territory of grief, Kercheval argues with god and the universe about the deaths of people she loves. She also writes movingly about the complications of family life and love, the messy puzzle of life itself.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822989956

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My Life as a Silent Movie

A Novel

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

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My Life as a Silent Movie

A Novel

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

After a tragic loss, an American woman investigates her birth family in Paris: “The novel’s twists and turns are wonderfully unexpected” (Emma Straub, author of Modern Lovers). In her early forties, Emma has recently lost her husband and daughter to a tragic auto accident. When her elderly aunt visits her Indiana home to provide comfort, and instead blurts out the news that Emma was adopted, a new kind of shock sets in. Soon, a still-mourning Emma finds herself flying to Paris, where she will discover the twin brother whose existence she never knew about, and the identity of her birth parents—a White Russian film star of the 1920s and a French Stalinist. A story about identity and the relationship between art and life, My Life as a Silent Movie is “a beautiful, evocative novel [that] melds the magic of old movies with the redemptive power of family” (Jonis Agee, author of The Bones of Paradise). “In this sharply drawn chronicle of grief, a woman reassembles her identity through her father’s art and her brother’s tenuous offer of a new life . . . Kercheval delves deeply into the rawest of emotions and the most wrenching of choices, richly detailing each twist and turn with grace.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Indiana University Press

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025301025X

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9780253010254

Cinema Muto

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

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Cinema Muto

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

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SIU Press

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The Museum of Happiness

A Novel

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

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The Museum of Happiness

A Novel

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

After her husband's sudden death, Ginny Gillespie travels with his ashes to Paris, where she meets and falls in love with Roland Keppi, a strange, visionary man without a country. Their dreamlike affair is disrupted when Roland vanishes, deported to a German camp for people without identity papers. But coincidences, dreams, and visions eventually reunite them with the promise of a bright future. Set primarily in France between the world wars, the narrative moves easily between the present and the past and among Ginny, Roland, and the important people in their lives. These intertwining stories raise questions of fate and the meaning of family, identity, and happiness."--Library Journal

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Terrace Books

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0299187349

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9780299187347

The Alice Stories

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

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The Alice Stories

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

A series of interlinked short stories chronicles the world of Alice, a girl raised in Florida, who finds love with the scion of a family of Norwegian-Wisconsin farmers, her beloved Anders, and their family as they confront the joys, sorrows, and challenges of life together in Wisconsin. Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction.

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U of Nebraska Press

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080321135X

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9780803211353

The Museum of Happiness

A Novel

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

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The Museum of Happiness

A Novel

By: Jesse Lee Kercheval

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MEMOIR OF THE REV JESSE LEE W/

By: Jesse 1758-1816 Lee,Minton Ed Thrift

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MEMOIR OF THE REV JESSE LEE W/

By: Jesse 1758-1816 Lee,Minton Ed Thrift

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Wentworth Press

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1372999914

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Book's by Jesse Lee Kercheval

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Building Fiction

Building Fiction

Cinema Muto

Cinema Muto

Building Fiction

Building Fiction

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Dog Angel

Dog Angel

I Want to Tell You

I Want to Tell You

My Life as a Silent Movie

My Life as a Silent Movie

Cinema Muto

Cinema Muto

The Museum of Happiness

The Museum of Happiness

The Alice Stories

The Alice Stories

The Museum of Happiness

The Museum of Happiness

MEMOIR OF THE REV JESSE LEE W/

MEMOIR OF THE REV JESSE LEE W/

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