Literary Devices My Response References About the Author Amy Bloom (1953) American writer and psychotherapist Written two novels & three collections of short stories Nominee for the National Book Award & the National Book Critics Circle Award Creator‚ co-executive producer & head writer for TV series “State of Mind” Written for The New Yorker‚ Atlantic Monthly‚ The New York Times Magazine Won the National Magazine Award Text Hold Tight (2000) pp. 650-654
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1). During the years of 1965 to 1999‚ McCarthy published eight novels. He has won numerous grants and awards for his writing‚ including a fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters‚ a Guggenheim‚ and the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award. Like William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor‚ McCarthy’s novels “have in common...a rustic and sometimes dark humor‚
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in Brooklyn‚ New York‚ to Irish immigrant parents‚ grew up in Limerick‚ Ireland‚ and returned to America in 1949. For thirty years he taught in New York City high schools. His first book‚ Angela’s Ashes‚ won the Pulitzer Prize‚ the National Book Critics Circle Award and the L.A. Times Book Award. In 2006‚ he won the prestigious Ellis Island Family Heritage Award for Exemplary Service in the Field of the Arts and the United Federation of Teachers John Dewey Award for Excellence in Education. Long
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Amy Tan From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Personal life Amy Tan was born in Oakland‚ California to Chinese immigrants John Tan‚ an electrical engineer and Baptist minister‚ and Daisy‚ who was forced to leave her three daughters from a previous marriage behind in Shanghai. This incident provided the basis for Tan’s first novel‚ 1989 New York Times bestseller The Joy Luck Club. Amy is the middle child and only daughter among Daisy and John Tan’s three children. In the late 1960s Amy’s sixteen-year-old
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I began working on the material for my memoir‚ A Door in the Ocean‚ many years ago‚ way back in the year 2000. I was deep into the stories that would one day turn into my first fiction collection‚ The End of the Straight and Narrow‚ and back then I believed I was a dyed-in-the-wool fiction writer. I never considered that I had a life worth writing about‚ and like a lot of fiction writers‚ I’d been raised on the idea that nonfiction wasn’t the stuff of literature. There’s a long tradition of such
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Female comic creators made a great impact on the comic industry although they are not so many. They gained recognition since they have beginning to create comic novels. Women creators have worked an every genre from superheroes to romance‚ westerns to war‚ crime to horror. Their subjects of discussion have expanded as women’s role in society has changed. They are on pressure in the society because the model of women is determined by the society and they have to write like that. However women comic
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(1967) was a travel book of poems about Brazil’s surroundings. An Anthology of 20th Century Brazilian Poetry (1972) is exactly what it labels‚ Brazilian poetry. Geography III (1976) was her last collection of poems that earned her the National Book Critics Circle Award. Bishop died from a cerebral aneurysm in Boston on October 6‚ 1979. 	Due to Bishop’s magnificent following of readers‚ her poems have survived over twenty years after her death. There are many poems that carry an underlying meaning
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Shame of the Nation (2006)‚ and On Being A Teacher (2009) among others. He is an alumnus of Harvard University and a recipient of the National Book Award as well as the Robert F. Kennedy Award. Savage Inequalities was finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992 and became a national bestseller. This book is a sociological genre composed of six chapters revealing inequalities within inner-city schools and the environment in which they operate. The author addresses the book in a point
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‘Some critics may argue that in dramatic comedy gender conventions must be challenged.’ To what extent does the relationship between Benedick and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing challenge expected gender conventions? Mona Sharma Shakespeare includes two diverse couples in Much Ado About Nothing. He plays with expected gender conventions through these two couples. On one hand you have Beatrice and Benedick whose relationship does not conform to the expected gender conventions. Additionally‚
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promotion campaigns for Romulus Linney’s A Lesson Before Dying. The play‚ which makes a bold and moving statement about the link between learning and dignity‚ is an adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines’ book of the same title‚ which won the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award. Yes‚ members of whose-ever constituency‚ here’s a vote-getting narrative that says in no uncertain terms: It’s not power‚ not position‚ not clothes that makes the man. It’s education. Gaines’ story‚ which Linney simplifies for the stage
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