Donald Morrill

Beaut

Buch

The Monster called my cell phone this morning, demanding money. So begins Jill Lundgrove, the unforgettable protagonist of Beaut. Secluded in a cheap apartment on a ring road of Des Moines after a fire has destroyed her house--a blaze the Monster, her drug-addicted, adult son might have caused--she confronts her precarious circumstances. I'm in great need of reckoning, she writes, partly to herself and to another initially unnamed. What of that fire, the Monster's criminal companions, and the surprising prospect of a love affair after years of widowhood? And what of her three other children, who have variously sought to protect her, flee her,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-932112-74-3
EAN: 9780932112743
Produktnummer: 24648608
Verlag: Blair
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 184 S.
Masse: H20.1 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.8 cm 227 g
Gewicht: 227

Über den Autor

Donald Morrill is the author of the nonfiction volumes Impetuous Sleeper, The Untouched Minutes (River Teeth Nonfiction Prize), Sounding for Cool, and A Stranger's Neighborhood, as well as three collections of poetry (among them Awaiting Your Impossibilities, a 2015 Florida Book Award recipient). He has been the Bedell Visiting Writer in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa and writer-in-residence at the Poetry Center at Smith. Currently he teaches in the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at the University of Tampa.