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Terry Kay (1938–2020)

Autor(a) de To Dance with the White Dog

20+ Works 1,653 Membros 41 Críticas 2 Favorited

About the Author

Terry Kay was born February 10, 1938 in Royston, Georgia. He grew up there and became a well-known novelist. Perhaps his most well-known book is To Dance with the White Dog, which was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy in 1983. He is also the mostrar mais author of such best-selling works as Dark Thirty, Shadow Song, After Eli, and The Runaway, which was adapted for the screen. He won an Emmy for his screenplay Run Down the Rabbit. Kay's novel The Valley of Light won the 2004 Townsend Prize for Fiction and was also adapted for the screen. He won the 1981 Georgia Author of the Year Award for After Eli, and the Southeastern Library Association named him Outstanding Author of the Year in 1991 for To Dance with the White Dog. He published The Book of Marie in 2007. His last book, The Forever Wish of Middy Sweet, was published in August 2020. Terry Kay died on December 12, 2020 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) Terry Kay, Terry Kay grew up in Royston, Georgia on a farm that had no electricity. He was an entertainment reporter at the Atlanta Journal where he reviewed over 300 films a year. Needing more money, he took the position as creative director for a television and film development company. That job lasted a year, and he went on to public relations. Kay wrote the bestseller "To Dance with the White Dog," which Kay describes as "more of a translation of what had happened in my family than the creation of a book," and "The Kidnapping of Aaron Greene." Aaron Greene is a shy teenager who works as a mail boy at a bank and whose family could never afford the ten million dollars his captors are demanding. The story tells of the philosophical motives the kidnappers have for this unlikely abduction, which sets off a nationwide frenzy to find this average boy. Terry Kay published 18 books, including a collection of essays, and two children's books. His last book, The Forever Wish of Middy Sweet, was published in August 2020. He died on December 12, 2020 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras por Terry Kay

To Dance with the White Dog (1990) 529 exemplares
Shadow Song (1994) 264 exemplares
The Runaway (1997) 179 exemplares
The Valley of Light (2003) — Autor; Narrador — 151 exemplares
Taking Lottie Home: A Novel (2000) 124 exemplares
The Year the Lights Came On (1838) 89 exemplares
The Kidnapping of Aaron Greene (1998) 86 exemplares
The Book of Marie (2007) 44 exemplares
After Eli (1981) 43 exemplares
Dark Thirty (1984) 23 exemplares
Bogmeadow's Wish (2011) 23 exemplares
The Greats of Cuttercane (2011) 11 exemplares
Song of the Vagabond Bird (2014) — Autor — 11 exemplares
The Seventh Mirror (2013) 10 exemplares
The Runaway [2000 TV Movie] (2000) — Autor — 9 exemplares
Valley of Light 1 exemplar

Associated Works

A Confederacy of Crime: New Stories of Southern-Style Mystery (2001) — Contribuidor — 37 exemplares
The New Great American Writers' Cookbook (2003) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
Southern Christmas Literary Classics of the Holidays (1998) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
A Portrait of Southern Writers: Photographs (2000) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
A Christmas Housewarming (1992) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares

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Story of a man with a special gift for fishing. Very well written.
 
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bentstoker | Jan 26, 2024 |
A great book but it might bring a tear to your eye. The movie is playing free on Youttube, I haven't had the fortitude to watch it yet.
 
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therestlessmouse | 19 outras críticas | Jul 19, 2023 |
Terry Kay is quite a storyteller. He can write a love story like no other. His disclaimer at the end: "And there was a
White Dog.... I do not mean to offend the truth. I only wish to celebrate its spirit." And celebrate he does. Very, very good read.
 
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RobertaLea | 19 outras críticas | Jun 26, 2022 |
In a segregated Dixie small-town, an African-American boy is arrested. Frank and the prosecutor's retired dad, agree to act as defense council, investigate, cued by the boy's Caucasian playmate, Luke Winter, and turn both case and town around.
Rated PG for thematic elements
 
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SITAG_Family | Jul 23, 2021 |

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Obras
20
Also by
7
Membros
1,653
Popularidade
#15,543
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
41
ISBN
112
Línguas
10
Marcado como favorito
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