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Adventures in Pen Land

One Writer's Journey from Inklings to Ink

By: Marianne Gingher

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Adventures in Pen Land

One Writer's Journey from Inklings to Ink

By: Marianne Gingher

She invites us along on a raucous tour of soul sucking jobs, marriage, and a teaching career, with accompanying disquisitions on blasphemous reading preferences, '60s pop culture, writing workshops, and other amusing detours and distractions on the way to publication. She also shares her keen insights into the role of a Southern writer in American literary culture, the experience of writing as a mother, and the process of novel writing as compared to a lengthy family car trip. Featuring guest appearances by other writers such as Fred Chappell, Max Steele, and Annie Dillard plus cameos by the likes of Patty Hearst, Richard Nixon, and Bon Jovi, Adventures in Pen Land celebrates writing as a form of play that Gingher has never outgrown. The lighthearted illustrations by novelist Daniel Wallace (author of Big Fish) serve to reinforce this refreshing message as they depict one writer and her imagination growing up together. Adventures in Pen Land conveys a writer's sheer doggedness, with a few bones of advice tossed in along the way. Candid and irreverent, but always humane, this memoir is must reading for fans of Southern literature, students of creative writing, and anyone who can't resist the treat of reading about a writer's resilience and dedication to her craft.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826266533

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9780826266538

A Girl's Life

Horses and Boys and Weddings and Luck

By: Marianne Gingher

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A Girl's Life

Horses and Boys and Weddings and Luck

By: Marianne Gingher

In pleasant contrast to the recent flood of haunted childhood memoirs, A Girl’s Life is about growing up in a functional family, about nurture, serenity, wonderment, and the stabilizing contributions an unencumbered heart makes in the life of an observant child. Marianne Gingher makes the events of a “normal” girlhood not only engaging but distinctly illuminating and explores rites of passage that are as persuasive in shaping an artist’s sensibilities as are privations. A meditation on the comforts of homeplace and family, A Girl’s Life celebrates the last era in America, the 1950s and 1960s, when it was still possible to enjoy a cynicism-free girlhood—when “it was still safe for children to take gifts from strangers and not yet unwise for them to leave the doors of their hearts unlocked.” As Eudora Welty wrote in her autobiographical memoir One Writer’s Beginnings, “A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.” The seventeen personal narratives collected here corroborate Welty’s conviction. Arranged in a loose chronology, the tales document a southern white girl’s middle-class initiation into the adult world. The first section, “Sanctuary,” recalls Gingher’s earliest impressions of family dynamics and shelter, a child’s yearnings and resourcefulness. “Truths and Grit,” the second section, deals with the tempering of bliss, a young girl’s first encounters with corruption and mortality. In the final group of essays, “Metaphors and Pies,” Gingher explores the contributions her recollections of childhood make in her ongoing trials as a parent and a writer. That her own childhood still permeates and inspires her present life is perhaps its greatest legacy. Did the way Marianne Gingher grow up compel her toward the writing life? Certainly the impact of that distant time, specific people and events, sensory-steeped moments, and the privilege of being allowed to dream as well as do enriched and fostered the writer’s imagination. By turns funny, provocative, jubilant, and tender, A Girl’s Life is perhaps most notable for both exalting and justifying the place of happiness in a writer’s development.

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LSU Press

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0807126853

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9780807126851

A Girl's Life

Horses and Boys and Weddings and Luck

By: Marianne Gingher

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Horses and Boys and Weddings and Luck

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Bobby Rex's Greatest Hit

By: Marianne Gingher

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Bobby Rex's Greatest Hit

By: Marianne Gingher

Small-town favorite son sends shockwaves through the community when his 1961 risque love song hits the charts.

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LSU Press

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0807123226

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9780807123225

Adventures in Pen Land

One Writer's Journey from Inklings to Ink

By: Marianne Gingher

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One Writer's Journey from Inklings to Ink

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University of Missouri Press

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0826266533

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9780826266538

Zapped

A True Story of Divine Intervention

By: Marianne Thompson

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Zapped

A True Story of Divine Intervention

By: Marianne Thompson

Have you ever experienced a coincidence so uncanny it defied logic? If you have, then youve been Zapped! Plugged in and connected to the Universe. Synchronicity and self-discovery are the main ingredients in this contemporary parable of a womans journey to find her true self. This unique blend of humor, psychology and spirituality shows how anyone can transform his or her life by coming to terms with the past.

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260

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0971011907

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9780971011908

What Price Glory

By: Marianne Shock

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What Price Glory

By: Marianne Shock

What Price Glory by Marianne Shock released on Feb 22, 1995 is available now for purchase.

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264

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Silhouette

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0373099525

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9780373099528

Final Verdict

By: Marianne Woolbert

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Final Verdict

By: Marianne Woolbert

Written by attorney Marianne Woolbert, FINAL VERDICT is a fast-paced novel dealing with the pursuit of justice in a system corrupted by politics. Susan Marick is one of the country's top defense attorneys. At the height of her career, she walks away. Tired of backdoor deals & a justice system corrupted by politics, she leaves it all behind to start a new life. With the help of a friend, she opens a ranch in Wyoming raising champion saddlebred horses. Suddenly, her idyllic life is disrupted when she's asked to represent her former lover & political powerhouse, Jack Gilliatte, who has been accused of murdering the National Democratic Chairman. With great reluctance, she returns. Soon she finds herself in a world of high powered political machinations, illicit land deals, & drug trafficking at the highest levels. FINAL VERDICT is a gripping story dealing with the pursuit of justice in a system corrupted by politics -- a system whose corruption reaches further than anyone dares to guess. Orders: Mount Charleston Press, (800) 559-8088, http://www.astralite.com/mcp. Also available through Partners & Baker & Taylor.

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0965542939

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9780965542937

A Girl's Life

Horses, Boys, Weddings, and Luck

By: Marianne Gingher

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Horses, Boys, Weddings, and Luck

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Gingher's childhood memoirs are a celebration of the last era in America, the 1950's and 60's. Documenting a southern white girl's middle-class initiation into the adult world, she explores rites of passage and the privileges that allow a young girl to dream dreams.

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Isis

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0753152193

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9780753152195

Bobby Rex's Greatest Hit

By: Marianne Gingher

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Bobby Rex's Greatest Hit

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Small-town favorite son sends shockwaves through the community when his 1961 risque love song hits the charts.

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LSU Press

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0807123226

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A Girl's Life

Horses, Boys, Weddings, and Luck

By: Marianne Gingher

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0753152207

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9780753152201

MAMARAZZA. Edition en anglais

By: Marianne Sayn-Wittgenstein

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MAMARAZZA. Edition en anglais

By: Marianne Sayn-Wittgenstein

Whenever the Princess shows up with her cameras, doors open, and she is greeted with respect and affection: "Mamarazza" -- as she is widely known -- is a welcome visitor at festivities and events of her friends and acquaintances in the world of art, economy and diplomacy. It's been fifty years now since the Princess set out to systematically capture her personal environment by taking photographs -- at weddings, anniversaries, art openings, the Salzburg Festival, concerts and motor races. Ever since there has been hardly a society event that did not become a topic for her camera. Whether partying with Spanish Crown Prince Juan Carlos or actor Sean Connery, or being aboard an official flight with former German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, everybody shows respect for her, and everybody knows that she would never cross the bounds of confidentiality. The Princess's thousands and thousands of photographs, some of which were published in major fashion and lifestyle magazines, have been collected, dated and kept with the utmost care. In this way an exciting, unparalleled chronicle of the beautiful and the rich, the high society of five decades has been collected, which now has been published in a beautiful, impressive large-format book edition.

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Steidl Dap

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3882437065

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9783882437065

Book's by Marianne Gingher

Adventures in Pen Land

Adventures in Pen Land

A Girl's Life

A Girl's Life

A Girl's Life

A Girl's Life

Bobby Rex's Greatest Hit

Bobby Rex's Greatest Hit

Adventures in Pen Land

Adventures in Pen Land

Zapped

Zapped

What Price Glory

What Price Glory

Final Verdict

Final Verdict

A Girl's Life

A Girl's Life

Bobby Rex's Greatest Hit

Bobby Rex's Greatest Hit

A Girl's Life

A Girl's Life

MAMARAZZA. Edition en anglais

MAMARAZZA. Edition en anglais

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