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Breaking And Entering (Williams Novel)
''Breaking and Entering'' is a 1988 novel by American writer Joy Williams. Publication The novel was published a decade after Williams' second novel, ''The Changeling''. This gap occurred in part because of a negative review Williams received from ''New York Times'' critic Anatole Broyard for her novel '' The Changeling''. Reception Critical reception The novel received positive reviews at the time of publication, and has continued to receive praise in the following decades. American author Paul Lisicky has said he "fell in love" with the book while attending graduate school and that it influenced his own novel, ''Lawnboy''. Academic interpretation Zoltán Abádi-Nagy, writing in the ''Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies'', grouped the novel with works by other American "minimalist" authors. These include Jay McInerney's novel '' Bright Lights, Big City'', and Bret Easton Elllis' novel '' Less than Zero''. References 1988 American novels Novels set in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joy Williams (American Writer)
Joy Williams (born February 11, 1944) is an American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. Her notable works of fiction include ''State of Grace, The Changeling,'' and ''Harrow.'' Williams has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, a Rea Award for the Short Story, a Kirkus Award for Fiction, and a ''Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.'' Early life and education Williams was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. She grew up in Maine and was an only child. Her father was a Congregational minister with a church in Portland, Maine, and her grandfather was a Welsh Baptist minister. She received a BA from Marietta College and a MFA from the University of Iowa. At Iowa, Williams studied alongside Raymond Carver, R.V. Cassill, Vance Bourjaily, and Richard Yates. After graduating from Iowa, she married and moved to Florida, where she had a dog, a beach, and a Jaguar XK150, and wrote her first novel, ''State of Grace''. Williams has taught creative writing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vintage Books
Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing imprint of Penguin Random House originally established by Alfred A. Knopf in 1954. The company was purchased by Random House in April 1960, and a British division was set up in 1990. After Random House merged with Bantam Doubleday Dell, Doubleday's Anchor Books trade paperback line was added to the same division as Vintage. Following Random House's merger with Penguin, Vintage was transferred to Penguin UK. In addition to publishing classic and contemporary works in paperback under the Vintage brand, the imprint also oversees the sub-imprints Bodley Head, Jonathan Cape, Chatto and Windus, Harvill Secker, Hogarth Press, Square Peg, and Yellow Jersey. Vintage began publishing some titles in the mass-market paperback format in 2003. Notable authors * William Faulkner * Vladimir Nabokov * Cormac McCarthy * Albert Camus * Ralph Ellison * Dashiell Hammett * William Styron * Philip Roth * Toni Morrison * Dave Eggers * Robert Caro * Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatole Broyard
Anatole Paul Broyard (July 16, 1920 – October 11, 1990) was an American writer, literary critic, and editor who wrote for ''The New York Times''. In addition to his many reviews and columns, he published short stories, essays, and two books during his lifetime. His autobiographical works, ''Intoxicated by My Illness'' (1992) and ''Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir'' (1993), were published after his death. Several years after his death, Broyard became the center of controversy when it was revealed that he had " passed" as white despite being a Louisiana Creole of mixed-race ancestry. Life and career Early life Anatole Paul Broyard was born on July 16, 1920, in New Orleans, Louisiana, into a Black Louisiana Creole family, the son of Paul Anatole Broyard, a carpenter and construction worker, and his wife, Edna Miller, neither of whom had finished elementary school. Broyard was descended from ancestors who were established as free people of color before the Civil War. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Changeling (Joy Williams Novel)
A changeling is a figure in West European folklore. Changeling, The Changeling, or The Changelings may also refer to: Books * ''The Changeling'' (The Fey), a 1996 novel by Kristine Kathryn Rusch * ''The Changelings'' (novel), 1955, by Jo Sinclair * ''The Changeling'' (Ōe novel), 2000 * ''The Changeling'' (play), 1622, by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley * ''The Changeling'' (LaValle novel), a 2017 novel by Victor LaValle * ''The Changeling'' (Snyder novel), 1970 * ''The Changeling'' (Williams novel), 2008 * ''Changeling'' (Mike Oldfield autobiography) * ''Changeling'' (novel), 1980, by Roger Zelazny * '' The Changelings: A Classical Japanese Court Tale'' or ''Torikaebaya Monogatari'' * '' Animorphs'' or ''The Changelings'', a young adult book series by K. A. Applegate * ''The Changeling'', an 1898 novel by Sir Walter Besant * ''The Changeling'', a 1942–1944 serialized science fiction novel by A. E. van Vogt * ''The Changeling'', a 1958 novel by Robin Jenkins * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |