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The Great Pretenders
The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Roxanne Granville is used to getting what she wants—even if she has to break the rules. But after a falling-out with her grandfather, a powerful movie mogul, she has to face life on her own for the first time.… Roxanne forges a career unique for women in the 1950s, becoming an agent for hungry young screenwriters. She struggles to be taken seriously by the men who rule Hollywood and who often assume that sexual favors are just a part of doing business. When she sells a script by a blacklisted writer under the name of a willing front man, more exiled writers seek her help. Roxanne wades into a world murky with duplicity and deception, and she can’t aff...
The Memoir Club
Six women with six private griefs take a night class in Writing Your Memoir, looking only for a little bibliotherapy. Six months and one violent act later, their lives are forever altered and connected.
These Latter Days
First released in 1985, THESE LATTER DAYS tells the story of a pregnant Mormon wife who takes her five children and leaves her husband. Settling in California, she tells people she is a widow. There a physician, himself an exiled Mormon, comes to her aid. The NEW YORKER described the book as "fine, grim details of turn-of-the-century American frontier life".
Graced Land
Produced by Roseanne as a TV film entitled "The Woman Who Loved Elvis"--with screenplay by Rita Mae Brown--"Graced Land" tells the story of a young mother, her front porch shrine dedicated to Elvis, and her ongoing battle with the welfare system. "(An) eccentric comedy and searching character study".--"The New York Times".
Cosette
Written by an authority on Victor Hugo's classic novel, this sequel chronicles the life of Cosette, the adopted daughter of Jean Valjean, and her romance with Marius Pontmercy, while revolution continues to envelop France. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo.
Caveat
Based loosely on historical events in California in 1916, CAVEAT tells the story of Hank Beecham, son of a dissolute Confederate veteran and embittered mother, snubbed by the townspeople of St. Elmo. Hank finds his calling as a rainmaker, saving St. Elmo from a serious drought. When the town doesn't pay him as promised, Hank returns eight years later to exact his revenge.
Truth Tales
   The rich popular tradition of India's women writers is finally available in this collection of short stories translated from seven of the country's languages. The writers and their heroines reflect the complex mosaic of Indian life-they are old and young, rural and urban, rich and poor. Here we meet Muniyakka, called "walkie-talkie" because she mutters to herself; Shakun, the dollmaker, an exploited artist who needs to feel that others depend on her; and Jashoda, professional mother to children of the rich, from Mahasveta Devi's acknowledged masterpiece "The Wet Nurse." These stories "are dense with thsoe customs, manners, and objects that usually remain locked within regional languages," wrote Anita Desai in the New York Review ofBooks . Meena Alexander's thoughtful introduction places the stories and the writers in the context of modern India.
The Heart to Artemis
Bryher (1894-1985)—adventurer, novelist, publisher—flees Victorian Britain for the raucous streets of Cairo and sultry Parisian cafes. Amidst the intellectual circles of the twenties and thirties, she develops relationships with Marianne Moore, Freud, Paul Robeson, her longtime partner H.D., Stein, and others. This compelling memoir, first published in 1962, reveals Bryher’s exotic childhood, her impact on modernism, and her sense of social justice by helping over 100 people escape from the Nazis. “A work so rich in interest, so direct, revealing, and, above all, thought-provoking that this reader found it the most consistently exciting book of its kind to appear in many years.”—The New York Times
The Delinquent Virgin
A plaster Virgin, conventionally set in a church Nativity scene, goes missingnight after night with strange community consequences.
Educating Waverley
Story of Waverley Scott's experiences from age 14 to the final stages of her life as an elderly, reclusive romance novelist. At 14, Waverley is unformed and uninformed but not naive; she realizes that she has been sent to Temple School on isolated Isadora Island because she looks too much like her mother's married employer (also Waverley's "guardian"). Traveling with them on almost continuous business trips, she has not attended school or made friends. At Temple School, Waverley is inspired by independent, impractical headmistress Sophia Westervelt and forms a bond with classmates and Sandy Lomax, a local island boy. From these first significant relationships, Waverley forms her opinions on love, romance, and the independence of women. The characters are endearingly human and eccentric; the reader will empathize with their plights as they fulfill their destinies against the background of World War II.
