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Bad Books (Kindle Single) (Ploughshares Solos Volume 3 Book 6) by [Clare Needham]

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Sofia is in a rut. Her dissertation work is stalled, and her life seems to be one gray day after another. When an elderly scholar, Monsieur Charles Vinson, invites her to his house in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon to spend the summer writing and cataloging his dead father's papers, she jumps at the offer. There, in the south of France, Sofia spends her days flipping through an archive of anti-Semitic papers and relics from the past century, burrowing deeper into the troubled history of the Vinson family. In the process, she will uncover secrets both innocuous and dangerous, and immerse herself in the measured and civilized life of the Vinson family -- and, perhaps, find her own work worth doing.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Clare Needham graduated from Barnard College, where she wrote Bad Books and received numerous recognitions for her writing, including the Howard M. Teichmann Writing Prize. Her work has been published in The New Inquiry, Armchair/Shotgun, Fiction Attic Press, and Bodega Magazine. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, and is currently an MFA student at Hunter College in New York.

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70 pages
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Publication date

February 12, 2015
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923 KB
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00TKS364K
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ploughshares / Emerson College (February 12, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 12, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 923 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 70 pages
Lending ‏ : ‎ Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #2,409,302 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #40 in Kindle Singles: Travel
- #577 in Kindle Singles: Literature & Fiction
- #2,319 in Two-Hour Travel Short Reads

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maryann p. hobbie

Summer in Provence!

Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2015

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When I began to read this novella, I was instantly transported to France. I thought I was reading Simone de Beauvoir and Anais Nin...Ms. Needham must continue to write...her sentences are delicate and strong, she weaves in breath, and depth, and color and sound. This story only has a four because I thought the story shouldn't have ended! I thought the author was given on,y a certain amount of words, so...I can't say anymore without giving the ending away! Looking forward to her next book!

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Yvonne B

Enjoyable

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2015

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Interesting read ... Deffinitely worth the time and money. Had hoped to know more about the books and the end was sudden ... Enjoyable piece of writing all the same.

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The_Girl_X

One of my favorites

Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2017

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I love the flow of this authors words. This is one of my favorite short stories to read. I highly recommend it to anyone.

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Cath T.

Nicely written, with an intriguing premise

Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2015

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Nicely written, with an intriguing premise. Loses some momentum in the middle and the central character is a bit passive, but I'm guessing that was intentional.

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Ima shalom

a brief but incisive story about the intersection of passion ...

Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2015

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a brief but incisive story about the intersection of passion and indifference told in lucid and humorous prose.

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Barbara Lytle

One Star

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2015

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This was very discinected. Felt lost when I was reading it.