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After her mother's death, the narrator, a writer, recalls all that made her complicated mother extraordinary and even though she wants to respect her mother's nearly pathological sense of privacy, must decide whether chronicling this remarkable life is anact of love or betrayal.
A widower and his adult son visit a Scottish island in search of puffins. An actress who plays a game-show villainess ushers in the New Year with her deadbeat brother. A mother, pining for her children, feasts on loaves of challah to fill the void. A new couple navigates a tightr...
After her mother's death, the narrator, a writer, recalls all that made her complicated mother extraordinary and even though she wants to respect her mother's nearly pathological sense of privacy, must decide whether chronicling this remarkable life is anact of love or betrayal.
A platonic romance between a librarian and a teenage boy. The boy is James, who suffers from giantism--never stops growing--while she is Peggy, a spinster 14 years his senior. During their 10-year relationship she redoes a house and a car to fit him. Only when he dies is there se...
"Award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new collection features her most vibrant and heartrending work to date"--Provided by publisher.
"From the day she is discovered unconscious in a New England cemetery at the turn of the twentieth century -- nothing but a bowling ball, a candlepin, and fifteen pounds of gold on her person --Bertha Truitt is an enigma to everyone in Salford, Massachusetts. She has no past to s...
"From the day she is discovered unconscious in a New England cemetery at the turn of the twentieth century -- nothing but a bowling ball, a candlepin, and fifteen pounds of gold on her person --Bertha Truitt is an enigma to everyone in Salford, Massachusetts. She has no past to s...
"From bestselling and award-winning author and professor Elizabeth McCracken comes an irresistible look at the art of writing. Writing can feel like an endless series of decisions. How does one face the blank page? Move a character around a room? Deal with time? Undertake revisio...
[UNABRIDGED MP3 CD, 12.75 HOURS] 'Bowlaway' is the new novel by Elizabeth McCracken about three generations of an unconventional New England family who own and operate a candlepin bowling alley.
In these stories, the mysterious bonds of family are tested, transformed, fractured, and fortified. A recent widower and his adult son ferry to a craggy Scottish island in search of puffins. An actress who plays a children's game-show villainess ushers in the New Year with her de...
The year is 1950, and librarian Peggy Cort feels like love and life have stood her up. Until the day an "over-tall" eleven-year-old boy walks into her library and changes her life forever.
While nine months pregnant, author Elizabeth McCracken found out that her baby boy had passed away. While she never recovered from this tragedy, she did have a successful pregnancy a year later. McCracken pours her heart out in this touching memoir of hope and strength. This is t...
WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NEWSDAY NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • San Francisco Chronicle O: The Oprah Magazine The Miami Herald Publishers Weekly Kirku...
"Award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new collection features her most vibrant and heartrending work to date"-- Provided by publisher.
A sweeping and enchanting new novel from the widely beloved, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken about three generations of an unconventional New England family who own and operate a candlepin bowling alley From the day she is discovered unconscious in a New England cemeter...