Dwight's House and Other Stories [Paperback]

Meredith Sue Willis (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 196 pages
• Publisher: Hamilton Stone Editions (September 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971487324
• ISBN-13: 978-0971487321
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,947,702 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Meredith Sue Willis grew up in West Virginia where her parents were both teachers. She has degrees from Barnard College and Columbia University, and her fiction has been published by Scribners', HarperCollins, West Virginia University Press, Mercury House, Ohio University Press, and others. Her book of literary short stories, In the Mountains of America, was praised in the New York Times Book Review as "a[n]...important lesson on the nature and function of literature itself." Her novels for children are Billie of Fish House Lane, The Secret Super Powers of Marco and Marco's Monster.

Her latest books are Ten Strategies to Write Your Novel, and a new collection of Appalachian short stories, Out of the Mountains.

She lives in South Orange, New Jersey where she keeps a four season organic garden and is active in local racial integration politics as well as teaching writing in the schools and at New York University.

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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars by a reader/writer., July 31, 2004

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R. Kavaler "reader/writer" (New York, N.Y.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dwight's House and Other Stories (Paperback)

This author has the rare ability to get under the skin of wildly different characters to such an effect that the reader is not only entranced but emerges with a deeper understanding of these poor mortals, of which we are one. Beautifully written, powerfully effective.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Believeable characters put in paralyzing dilemmas, June 12, 2004

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dwight's House and Other Stories (Paperback)

Written by a prize-winning member of the Appalachian Renaissance in literature, Dwight's House & Other Stories is an anthology of short stories by critically acclaimed author Meredith Sue Willis. Focusing on believeable characters put in paralyzing dilemmas, these tales examine the troubling paradoxes of the human condition with sympathy and synchronicity. The stories presented are "Dwight's House", "Attack", "Tiny Gorillas", "Another Perversion", and "Tales of the Abstract Expressionists". Highly recommended.