Author: Michelle Huneven
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: jamesland
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2004-09-14
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0375713131
ISBN-13: 9780375713132
Jamesland, the buoyant second novel by Michelle Huneven, critically acclaimed author of Round Rock, is a witty, sophisticated, and deeply humane comedy of unlikely redemption.When thirty-three-year-old Alice Black discovers a deer in her dining room after fighting with her boyfriend, she wonders if she’s going crazy. Pete Ross, forty-six, knows he’s crazy. He’s wrecked his marriage, slashed his wrists, and done time in a psychiatric institution, and now he’s being cared for by his mother, who’s a nun. Forty-five-year-old Helen Harland, a spirited Unitarian Univers
Author: Susan E. Gunter
Publisher: University Of Nebraska Press
Keywords: alice, james, gibbens, story, jamesland, howe
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2009-03-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 080321569X
ISBN-13: 9780803215696
Alice in Jamesland, the first biography of Alice Howe Gibbens Jameswife of the psychologist and philosopher William James, and sister-in-law of novelist Henry Jameswas made possible by the rediscovery of hundreds of her letters and papers thought to be destroyed in the 1960s. Encompassing European travel, Civil War profiteering, suicide, a stormy courtship, sances, psychedelic mushrooms, the death of a child, and an enduring love story, Alice in Jamesland is a portrait of a nineteenth-century upper-middle-class marriage, told often through Alices own letters and made all the more dynamic b
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