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The Solace of Leaving Early
Author | : Haven Kimmel |
Publsiher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2002-07-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780385507301 |
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Using small-town life as a springboard to explore the loftiest of ideas, Haven Kimmel’s irresistibly smart and generous first novel is at once a romance and a haunting meditation on grief and faith. Langston Braverman returns to Haddington, Indiana (pop. 3,062) after walking out on an academic career that has equipped her for little but lording it over other people. Amos Townsend is trying to minister to a congregation that would prefer simple affirmations to his esoteric brand of theology. What draws these difficult—if not impossible—people together are two wounded little girls who call themselves Immaculata and Epiphany. They are the daughters of Langston’s childhood friend and the witnesses to her murder. And their need for love is so urgent that neither Langston nor Amos can resist it, though they do their best to resist each other. Deftly walking the tightrope between tragedy and comedy, The Solace of Leaving Early is a joyous story about finding one’s better self through accepting the shortcomings of others.
The Solace of Leaving Early
Author | : Haven Kimmel |
Publsiher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2003-05-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781400033348 |
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Using small-town life as a springboard to explore the loftiest of ideas, Haven Kimmel’s irresistibly smart and generous first novel is at once a romance and a haunting meditation on grief and faith. Langston Braverman returns to Haddington, Indiana (pop. 3,062) after walking out on an academic career that has equipped her for little but lording it over other people. Amos Townsend is trying to minister to a congregation that would prefer simple affirmations to his esoteric brand of theology. What draws these difficult—if not impossible—people together are two wounded little girls who call themselves Immaculata and Epiphany. They are the daughters of Langston’s childhood friend and the witnesses to her murder. And their need for love is so urgent that neither Langston nor Amos can resist it, though they do their best to resist each other. Deftly walking the tightrope between tragedy and comedy, The Solace of Leaving Early is a joyous story about finding one’s better self through accepting the shortcomings of others.
Solace of Leaving Early
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2003-05-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1417743018 |
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Something Rising Light and Swift
Author | : Haven Kimmel |
Publsiher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 2010-07-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780007395644 |
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From the internationally bestselling author of ‘The Solace of Leaving Early’, a funny, heartwrenching and unforgettable novel following the fortunes of a feisty young female pool hustler.
Iodine
Author | : Haven Kimmel |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781416572848 |
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Living a highly functional if impoverished existence after running away from her abusive home, unconventional college senior Tracey Sue is forced to face her painful past when she falls in love with a much-older man, prompting her to re-experience a traumatic suppressed memory that makes her realize that much of her present life is a carefully constructed illusion. 40,000 first printing.
The Hope in Leaving
Author | : Barbara Williams |
Publsiher | : Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2016-04-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781609806736 |
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Handsome Jack is a logger, nomad, and born dreamer. His young wife, Simone, has too many kids and never enough money to support or protect them. The family keeps on the move, shedding a grand total of twenty-seven homes. Their first child, Randy, is sensitive and brilliant and bold, protector of his younger siblings, the fearless star of their childhood adventures and misadventures—until something snaps inside him. The second child who comes a year after him, our narrator Barbara, is the lucky one, who can dream of getting out. Every time the family relocates, she feels “the hope in leaving and doing better next time.” Poverty, mental illness, sexual abuse, and injustice pursue them wherever they go. They live small-town life hard and suffer, most of all Randy. The great surprise of The Hope in Leaving isn’t that these characters descend increasingly into isolation and strife, but that despite this they remain a family, that there is always the spark of wit in their banter, and a kind of closeness no matter what happens, even a sense of normalcy. Gradually, the reader comes to understand why The Hope in Leaving is a book that had to be written. In it, Williams proves beyond doubt that there is one thing that can survive the worst of life and even death itself: love without judgment.
The Used World
Author | : Haven Kimmel |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2008-06-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780743247795 |
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Spending their days at a sprawling Indiana antique mart surrounded by dusty furniture and cast-off clothing, Hazel, Claudia, and Rebekah find their circumstances revitalized by three romances and the unexpected arrival of two babies. By the author of A Girl Named Zippy. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
A Girl Named Zippy
Author | : Haven Kimmel |
Publsiher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2002-06-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780767913102 |
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The New York Times bestselling memoir about growing up in small-town Indiana, from the author of The Solace of Leaving Early. When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period–people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards. Laced with fine storytelling, sharp wit, dead-on observations, and moments of sheer joy, Haven Kimmel's straight-shooting portrait of her childhood gives us a heroine who is wonderfully sweet and sly as she navigates the quirky adult world that surrounds Zippy.