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An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken
Category: Biography Memoir
'This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending'. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, Elizabeth McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. Then she fell in love, got married, and continued her life of writing, travelling, and teaching with h ...Show more
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir by Elizabeth McCracken
Category: Biography
"This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got married, and t ...Show more
Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken
Category: Fiction
From the day she is discovered unconscious in a New England cemetery at the beginning of the twentieth century - nothing but a bowling ball, a candlepin and fifteen pounds of gold on her person - Bertha Truitt is an enigma to everyone in Salford, Massachusetts. She has no past to speak of, or at least n ...Show more
Niagara Falls All Over Again by Elizabeth McCracken
Category: Fiction
?Deserves a standing ovation.... Seductive, sublime storytelling? ? Independent on Sunday. The comedy team of Carter and Sharp thrives for 30 years, from the vaudeville backwaters to Hollywood, until one unforgivable act leads to another and the partnership begins to unravel. An exploration of the fr ...Show more
Niagara Falls All Over Again by Elizabeth McCracken
Category: Fiction
By turns graceful and knowing, funny and moving, Niagara Falls All Over Again is the latest masterwork by National Book Award finalist and author of The Giant’s House, Elizabeth McCracken.Spanning the waning years of vaudeville and the golden age of Hollywood, Niagara Falls All Over Again chronicles a f ...Show more
The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken
Category: Fiction
National Book Award FinalistThe year is 1950, and in a small town on Cape Cod, 26-year-old librarian Peggy Cort feels like love and life have stood her up. Until the day James Carlson Sweatt--the "over-tall" 11-year-old boy who's the talk of the town--walks into her library and changes her life. Two mis ...Show more
The Hero of This Book - A Novel by Elizabeth McCracken
Category: Fiction
A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, about a writer's relationship with her larger-than-life mother--and about the very nature of writing, memory, and art Ten months after her mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book takes a trip to ...Show more
The Hero of this Book by Elizabeth McCracken
Category: Fiction
A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, about a writer's relationship with her larger-than-life mother - and about the very nature of writing, memory, and love. Ten months after her mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book takes a tri ...Show more
The Hero of this Book: 'A sublime gift' Meg Mason by Elizabeth McCracken
Category: Fiction
A Book of the Year in the New Yorker, Time, NPR, Washington Post, People Magazine and Oprah DailyA taut, groundbreaking new novel about a writer's relationship with her larger-than-life mother - and about the very nature of writingTen months after her mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Boo ...Show more
The Souvenir Museum by Elizabeth McCracken
Category: Fiction
One of the most acclaimed writers of our day, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new collection features her most vibrant and heartrending work to date. In these stories, the mysterious bonds of family are tested, transformed, fractured, and ...Show more
The Souvenir Museum - Stories by Elizabeth McCracken
Category: Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new collection features her most vibrant and heartrending work to date In these stories, the mysterious bonds of family are tested, transformed, fractured, and fortifi ...Show more
Thunderstruck & Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken
Category: Fiction
At the centre of Elizabeth McCracken's extraordinary stories is often a jagged space left by loss: a neighbourhood is haunted by a child's ghost, a librarian grapples with the mystery of a patron's death, a corner store manager obsesses over a missing woman, a son absconds forever with his parents' savi ...Show more