Author : Doris Betts
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780807122242
The stories in this extraordinary first collection are concerned with some of the most private and complicated issues: living and dying, growing old, questioning one's beliefs, and recognizing one's own failings. Whether it is an old man struggling to come to terms with an incident in his past or a meddling spinster who is forced to recognize the subtle dance of resentment, in each of these stories a "gentle insurrection" occurs that changes lives forever.
Author : Peter Taylor
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780807128435
This collection of four prose and four intimately told verse stories was first published in 1977, and the following year Peter Taylor was given the Gold Medal Award for the short story by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Set mostly in Nashville and Memphis amid Taylor's fictional genteel Tennessee society, these tales belie serene manners and lovely neighborhoods with undercurrents of irony, violence, disgrace, sexual transgressions, and generational divide. Often shadowing male despair in the modern world, they describe the power of unleashed passion once the restraint of custom has given way.
Author : Valerie Martin
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,66 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780807127353
Developing countries, confronted with increased demand for health services, are seeking alternative methods for funding these services through a variety of methods, including user charges, private health insurance, community-based financing, and earmarked payroll and general taxation. This book provides a framework for assessing national health financing by drawing on the experiences of industrial countries that have a longer history in addressing the issue. The framework is designed for the assessment of national health financing in terms of what are policy concerns in all health systems: coverage, accessibility to financing, overall affordability, efficiency in the supply and financing of services, innovation, and consumer choice. The book also discusses a number of policy issues arising from the use of the framework. It uses the experience of six industrial countries--Canada, Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States--to illustrate the results of different approaches in the pursuit of health care policy objectives
Author : Sheila Bosworth
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,74 MB
Release : 1998-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780807122785
Rory Cade is summoned home from her book tour in New York by the housekeeper's cryptic message: Miss Cade passing. On the turbulent flight back to south Louisiana, Rory finds herself relating her family's past and its particular, poisonous brew of money, passion, infidelity, alcohol, religion, and Irish insanity. The Cades of Covington -- a dashing, drunken father; a mother and stepmother both dead at an early age; three young daughters raised in genteel chaos; a live-in grandmother and fiery maiden aunt. This broken, brave ménage and their attendant circle of friends, lovers, and servants are realized with amazing penetration and deftness in a stirring, stinging survey of the cruel, humorous, unpredictable human heart.
Author : Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780807127926
Against a backdrop of the Vietnam War comes a love story that rips families apart in an era of high drama and protest. Mary is a gifted dancer but oppressed by her mother and conservative family. Then she meets Jefferson, an anti-war radical, whom she falls in love with and marries.
Author : Beverly Lowry
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 25,16 MB
Release : 2000-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780807125748
Author : James Wilcox
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,58 MB
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 080715170X
Universally and repeatedly praised ever since it first appeared in 1983, Modern Baptists is the book that launched novelist James Wilcox's career and debuted the endearingly daft community of Tula Springs, Louisiana. It's the tale of Bobby Pickens, assistant manager of Sonny Boy Bargain Store, who gains a new lease on life, though he almost comes to regret it. Bobby's handsome half brother F.X. -- ex-con, ex-actor, and ex-husband three times over -- moves in, and things go awry all over town. Mistaken identities; entangled romances with Burma, Toinette, and Donna Lee; assault and battery; charges of degeneracy; a nervous breakdown -- it all comes to a head at a Christmas Eve party in a cabin on a poisoned swamp. This is sly, madcap romp that offers readers the gift of abundant laughter. Modern Baptists was included in Harold Bloom's The Western Canon, in GQ magazine's forty-fifth anniversary issue as one of the best works of fiction in the past forty-five years, and among Toni Morrison's "favorite works by unsung writers" in U.S. News and World Report.
Author : James Wilcox
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0807151343
A candidate for the office of Superintendent of Streets, Parks, and Garbage, middle-aged matron Olive Mackie of Tula Springs, Louisiana, finds her political aspirations thwarted when her ninety-one-year-old Great Uncle L.D. comes under suspicion for murder. Police don't believe that L.D.'s home-care attendant would commit suicide by jumping from a second-floor window -- but Olive, who has heard her uncle demonstrate his excellent memory by reciting important dates in history over and over, thinks he would. Before justice can be done, half the staff of City Hall, a home ec teacher, an uninspired dentist, the principal of a disreputable private school, and several adulterous housewives are implicated in James Wilcox's spectacular plot. His third Tula Springs novel, Miss Undine's Living Room is not only a masterful comedy, exuberant and irreverent, but also a deeply felt examination of the education of the mind and the spirit.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Copyright
ISBN :
Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
Author : Elizabeth Evans
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 35,5 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writer's work. Each volume features: -- A critical, interpretive study and explication of the author's works -- A brief biography of the author -- An accessible chronology outlining the life, the work, and relevant historical context -- Aids for further study: complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography and an index -- A readable style presented in a manageable length
