"Her gifts are limitless.... Rosellen Brown can do anything with language."—Cynthia Ozick
"All the stories in this remarkable cycle of stories are assigned an address. Each is also a separate life, yet part of the larger life that a neighborhood is; [this book] is an artist's inhabiting of other lives out of love, compassion, anger, and pain. Like the neighborhood, the stories are various. The mother of a damaged child tells us, 'I know how he dreams me. I know because I dream his dreams.' A male bureaucrat laments, 'I am too bored to move. No man can leave his wife for reasons like these....' In these stories, Rosellen Brown is Anglo, Puerto Rican, African American, Caucasian, male, female, parent, child. That is the artist's responsibility, the being of so many. Furthermore, it is a brilliantly written book that, in a period of fiction sniffing and snorting at itself, reminds us how the first rate will not go away."—from the foreword by Frederick BuschBook Description
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Her gifts are limitless.... Rosellen Brown can do anything with language. -- Cynthia Ozick
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Rosellen Brown is the author of the best-selling novel Before and After as well as Half a Heart, Civil Wars, and others. She lives in Chicago.
Frederick Busch (1941–2006) won numerous awards and taught at Colgate University for many years. His books include North, A Memory of War, and Don’t Tell Anyone, a New York Times Notable Book.
Frederick Busch (1941–2006) won numerous awards and taught at Colgate University for many years. His books include North, A Memory of War, and Don’t Tell Anyone, a New York Times Notable Book.
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HOW LONG IT TAKE YOU TO GO ALL AROUND THE WORLD? Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
George Street, New York, Community Center, Willow Street, Atlantic Avenue, Carie Lyn, Miz Olsen, Red Hook, Baltic Street, Sally Amado, Slocum Place, Uncle Cat New!
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HOW LONG IT TAKE YOU TO GO ALL AROUND THE WORLD? Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
George Street, New York, Community Center, Willow Street, Atlantic Avenue, Carie Lyn, Miz Olsen, Red Hook, Baltic Street, Sally Amado, Slocum Place, Uncle Cat New!
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- Washington Square (Signet Classics) by Henry James on page 118, and page 138
- West Side Story (Vocal Score) by Leonard Bernstein on page 142
- Street Games: A Neighborhood (Alive Again Series) by Rosellen Brown on 4 pages
- Before and After by Rosellen Brown in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- 500 Great Books by Women: A Reader's Guide by Erica Bauermeister on page 248, and page 261
- Tender Mercies by Rosellen Brown in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Live at Five by David Haynes in Back Matter
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