01/29/08 After Eden by Valerie Miner &&&& "ARE YOU SOMEBODY?" by Nuala O'Faolain
The book I just finished:
"ARE YOU SOMEBODY?"
By Nuala O'Faolain
Published 1999
Holt Paperbacks
Women journalists
/ Ireland/ Biography
215 pages
ISBN 0805056645
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Nuala O'Faolain attracted a huge amount of critical praise and a wide audience with the literary debut of Are You Somebody? Her midlife exploration of life's love, pain, loneliness, and self- discovery won her fans worldwide who write and tell her how her story has changed their lives. There are thousands who have yet to discover this extraordinary memoir of an Irish woman who has stepped away from the traditional roles to define herself and find contentment. They will make this paperback a long-selling classic. Nuala O'Faolain attracted a huge amount of critical praise and a wide audience with the literary debut of Are You Somebody? Her midlife exploration of life's love, pain, loneliness, and self- discovery won her fans worldwide who write and tell her how her story has changed their lives. There are thousands who have yet to discover this extraordinary memoir of an Irish woman who has stepped away from the traditional roles to define herself and find contentment. They will make this paperback a long-selling classic.
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The story of a female outlaw like no other in history-by the acclaimed #1 "New York Times" bestselling author. Legend says that May was tall with red-gold hair and big blue eyes, compellingly attractive to men. At nineteen, she stole her family's savings and ran away from home in rural Ireland to America where she worked as a confidence trickster, a thief, a , and a , notorious as much for her as for her diamond rings. The tabloids would dub her "The Queen of the Underworld." Reaching across the decades for points of connection, Nuala O'Faolain brings sympathetic scrutiny to the understanding of an outlaw experience like no other.
"THE STORY OF CHICHGO MAY."
By Nuala O'Faolain
Published 2006
Penguin Group (USA
) Incorporated
Biography
& Autobiography
/ Criminals & Outlaws
368 pages
ISBN 1594482179
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"MY DREAM OF YOU"
By Nuala O'Faolain
Published 2002
Penguin Group (USA
) Incorporated
History
544 pages
ISBN 1573229083
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This compelling novel by Nuala O'Faolain intertwines the stories of two women, an Irish travel writer living in present-day London, and a British landowner's wife during the 19th century potato famine, who was convicted of committing ery with an Irish groom. "A lovely heartbreaker of a novel that asks the hard questions...O'Faolain writes beautifully about longing and regret." ("USA Today") "We often hail the virtuosic performance of a talented new 'writer's writer, ' but O'Faolain may be a rarer thing in today's age of irony: a reader's writer, with a flair for straightforward, storytelling."("Vogue") "One of the finest achievements of the book is its unflinching, empathetic depiction of just how it feels...to experience the chill clutch of the thought that the rest of one's life might be empty of love, , intimate human contact...a fully rendered portrait." ("The New York Times Book Review")
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Nuala O'Faolain
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Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman, 2003.
Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman, 2003.
Nuala O'Faolain (pronounced "noola o-fway-lawn") (born in 1942 in Dublin) is an Irish journalist, TV producer, book reviewer, teacher and author. She became internationally well-known for her two volumes of memoir, Are You Somebody? and Almost There, a novel, My Dream of You, and a history with commentary, The Story of Chicago May. The first three were all on the New York Times Best Seller list.
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* 1 Personal life
* 2 Professional Life
o 2.1 Career
o 2.2 Awards
* 3 Books
* 4 Further reading
* 5 References
* 6 External links
[edit] Personal life
O'Faolain is second eldest of nine children. Her father was also well-known Irish journalist, writing the Dubliners Diary social column under the pen name Terry O'Sullivan for the Dublin Evening Press.
She was educated at University College, Dublin; University of Hull, England; and Oxford University.[1]
Though she was engaged at least once,[2] O'Faolain never married. In Are You Somebody?, O'Faolain speaks openly about her thirteen-year relationship with Nell McCafferty, who published her own memoir, Nell. [1]
One of O'Faolain's younger sisters, author Deirdre Brady, wrote her own memoir offering another view about the O'Faolain family life in Thank You For The Days.[3]
O'Faolain splits her time between Ireland and New York City.[4]
[edit] Professional Life
[edit] Career
* Television producer for the BBC and Radio Telefis Eireann
* Book reviewer for The Times
* Teacher at Morley College
* Opinion columnist for The Irish Times
* Best-selling author
[edit] Awards
* 1985 Jacob's Award as producer of RTÉ television programme, Plain Times
* Journalist of the year
* 2006 Prix Femina, The Story of Chicago May[5]
[edit] Books
* The Story of Chicago May, Riverhead Books, 2005. (ISBN 1-57322-320-4)
* Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman, Riverhead Books, 2003. (ISBN 1-57322-374-3)
* My Dream of You, Riverhead Books, 2001. (a novel, ISBN 1-57322-177-5)
* Are You Somebody? The al Memoir of a Dublin Woman, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996. (ISBN 0-8050-5663-7)
[edit] Further reading
Brady, D. (2005). Thank you for the days. Dublin: TownHouse.
[edit] References
1. ^ http://www.amazon.com/Are-You-Somebody-Accidental-Memoir/dp/0805056645/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-2047789-4246453?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185240552&sr=8-1 Editorial Review, retrieved 2007-07-23
2. ^ http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000027695,00.html Penguin Group USA, retrieved 2007-07-23
3. ^ http://www.townhouse.ie/ECom2/library3.nsf/CatalogByCategory/7D60B60877AA788080256FF6004CB9F9!OpenDocument Townhouse Dublin, retrieved 2007-07-2003
4. ^ http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=570 Book Browse Author Biography, retrieved 2007-07-23
5. ^ http://literaryawards.vertebratesilence.com/2006/10/31/2006-prix-femina-winners-announced/ 2007 Prix Femina, retrieved 2007-07-23
* Author Profile: Nuala O'Faolain, Bookreporter.com.
[edit] External links
* NPR interview with Nuala O'Faolain, March 14, 2001.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuala_O%27Faolain"
Categories: Living people | 1942 births | Irish novelists | Bisexual writers | People from County Dublin | LGBT people from Ireland | Irish women writers | Women novelists | Jacob's Award winners
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Valerie Miner
Valerie Miner
Valerie Miner is an award-winning author of 10 books, including the memoir The Low Road and the novels Range of Light and Winter's Edge. Her work has appeared in Salmagundi, New Letters, Ploughshares, The Village Voice, Gettysburg Review, and Prairie Schooner, among others. She is professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and is on the Board of Directors of The Associated Writing Programs.
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Valerie Miner's 2002 brochure photo
25th Annual Literary Festival
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Loss and renewal in the lives of an individual and a community.
After Eden is a provocative novel that examines the meaning of home and homelessness among people who see such issues as more than abstractions. In a story populated by Pomo Indians, Euro-American ranchers and vintners, and Mexican American migrant laborers, Valerie Miner deftly juxtaposes differing cultural views of wilderness, trespassing, and home. Her dramatic novel is contemporary, while reflecting on two centuries of change in a seemingly Edenic place.
Looking forward to relief from her job as a city planner in Chicago, Emily Adams begins a much-needed vacation at her Northern California cabin. But the sudden of her life partner forces her to re-examine personal commitments. Caught up in reflection, she comes to understand the intricacies of life in her pastoral retreat — complexities that she had never before considered.
In the modern-day Eden of California's coastal range, Emily finds conflict all around her: between loggers and environmentalists, farmworkers and immigration authorities, newcomers establishing a lesbian community and long-time residents clinging to traditional ways.
As Emily learns to overcome grief
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