Twenty Grand And Other Tales of Love and Money (P.S.) by RebeccaCurtis Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2007 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-117309-7, ISBN: 0-06-117309-6
"Paperback. Pub Date: 2007 07 Pages: 272 in Publisher: Harper Perennial In this dazzling literary debut Rebecca Curtis displays the gifts that make her one of the most talented writers of her generation. Her characters-young women struggling to find happiness. love. success. security. and adventure-wait tables. run away from home. fall for married men. betray their friends. and find themselves betrayed as well.In Hungry Self. a young wai ..."
Twenty Grand And Other Tales of Love and Money by RebeccaCurtis 272 Pages, Published 2009 by Harper Collins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-185671-6, ISBN: 0-06-185671-1
"With elegant prose and a wicked sense of humor, these stories reveal Curtis's provocative and uncompromising view of life, one that makes her writing so poignant and irresistible."
"After a dangerous brush with the Chicago fire of 1871, young Charlotte journeys with her family to the far-off reaches of Lake Superior. While Papa works for an island mining operation, Charlotte meets red-haired Claire and her storytelling grandmother, who introduce her to the island's beauty and intriguing heritage. Encounters with Indians, voyageurs, miners, and fishermen, and other adventures follow . . . and Charlotte discovers tha ..."
"To celebrate our 50th issue, we've put together one of our very best collections, with stories, essays, treatises, manifestos, letters, comics, and illustrated travel diaries from 50 different contributors. There's stunning new work from writers who we've long published ― Jonathan Lethem, Lydia Davis, Sherman Alexie, Etgar Keret, Sheila Heti, Diane Williams, Sarah Vowell, John Hodgman, Steven Millhauser (among many others) ― and fantast ..."
"In "New American Stories," the beautiful, the strange, the melancholy, and the sublime all comingle to show the vast range of the American short story . In this remarkable anthology, Ben Marcus has corralled a vital and artistically singular crowd of contemporary fiction writers. Collected here are practitioners of deep realism, mind-blowing experimentalism, and every hybrid in between.Luminaries and cult authors stand side by side with ..."
"Fall 2013, The Evil Issue: New fiction from Norman Rush and Rebecca Curtis, new drama from Gregory S. Moss. Franco Moretti reads Middlemarch, Alice Gregory goes surfing, and Chris Kraus asks what comes after art."
"The NSA would like to connect with you on LinkedIn. Sheila Heti's diary, clubbing for Christ. Rebecca Curtis with crazy fiction about lyme disease. Richard Beck reflects on the childcare sex abuse panic of the 1980s, and Barbara Vinken offers a theory of fashion below the waist. A stand Against the Rage Machine and the slow-burn incompetence of the NSA."
"Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, 1st Edition Thus. Review Copy with Review Slip loosely inserted. Excellent new copy save the very gentlest of rubbing to head of spine. Thick Royal 8vo. Wonderful full-page plate illustrations, illustrated end-papers, black at front and reversed-negative white to rear. Bound in white lettered black cloth with bronze black and white dustwrapper."
"The 16 papers in this volume come out of a symposium held in London in 1995. This meeting recognised the amount of work currently under way on Crete which focuses on Dark Age, Hellenistic and Roman societies. Interesting new work by participants on a number of small excavation and survey projects is presented. Some contributors confront wider questions: James Whitley's exploration of the `ethnicity' of Eteocretans in the Praisos area an ..."
"Instead of chick lit, Merrick would like us to read its diametric opposite: not chick
lit, formerly known as fiction written by women. Aimee Bender, Holiday Reinhorn,
and Binnie Kirshenbaum boldly present the ro- mantic woes of women who aren't
obsessed with Mr. Right; Judy Budnitz, Samantha Hunt, and Mary Gordon take
on subjects as challenging as Joan of Arc, the Unabomber, and a woman who
likes hanging around the public library. ..."
Twenty Grand And Other Tales of Love and Money by RebeccaCurtis Published 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-06-146061-6, ISBN: 0-06-146061-3
Into the Blue(1st Edition) by Andrea Curtis, RebeccaCurtis Hardcover, 269 Pages, Published 2003 by Random House Canada Import ISBN-13: 978-0-679-31135-5, ISBN: 0-679-31135-1
"Entrusted with her late grandmother's personal papers, award-winning journalist Andrea Curtis became obsessed with learning the facts surrounding the sinking of the steamer J.H. Jones on Georgian Bay during a November gale in 1906. The captain, James Victor Crawford, was Curtis's great-grandfather, a man grandmother Eleanor described in a girlhood poem as a "pirate." Curtis's extensive search for clues as to the true nature of her herit ..."
"This successful world history reader in the popular DISCOVERING series contains a six-part pedagogical framework that guides readers through the process of historical inquiry and explanation. Each chapter is organized within the same pedagogical framework: The Problem, Background, The Method, The Evidence, Questions to Consider, and Epilogue. The text emphasizes historical study as interpretation rather than memorization of data. The Fo ..."
"This successful world history reader in the popular DISCOVERING series contains a six-part pedagogical framework that guides readers through the process of historical inquiry and explanation. Each chapter is organized within the same pedagogical framework: The Problem, Background, The Method, The Evidence, Questions to Consider, and Epilogue. The text emphasizes historical study as interpretation rather than memorization of data. The Fo ..."