Valerie Sayers
Autor(a) de Due East
About the Author
Valerie Sayers is a writer, book reviewer, and educator. She was born in Beaufort, South Carolina on August 8, 1952. Sayers earned her B.A. from Fordham University in 1973 and her M.F.A. from Columbia University in 1976. Sayers has taught at New York University, Polytechnic University, and the mostrar mais University of Notre Dame. She is a regular book reviewer for The New York Times and The Washington Post. Sayers has written several novels based in the fictional town of Due East, South Carolina. In 1992, Sayers received a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and in 1997, she served on the NEA Creative Writing Fellowship panel. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras por Valerie Sayers
Notre Dame Review 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural (2014) — Contribuidor — 43 exemplares
A Very Southern Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South’s Best Writers (2003) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- female
Membros
Críticas
Prémios
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Also by
- 4
- Membros
- 129
- Popularidade
- #156,299
- Avaliação
- 3.3
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 24
- Línguas
- 1
Story that starts out with Delores and she's a hometown girl with 4 kids and a husband who sells real estate.
It's Nov 1963 and she's educated to know about current affairs. She's pregnant with their 5th child and the reporter flirts with her about a story he wants to write.
Her daughter Kate is going through changes as she's just 11 years old and doesn't want to ask her mother for a bra.
Story goes back in time to when they first met and headed to SC to live. The struggles of the civil rights and religion. She reads a lot and has many views.
Kate has witnessed events that leave her upset, she doesn't know who to go to for help.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).… (mais)