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From Great Grape Fiascos to Wars...Wit and Wisdom from India, Hungary, South Africa, Poland and the United States
出版Pawpress, 2005-12
主題Fiction / Short Stories (single author)Literary Collections / General
ISBN18808820869781880882085
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=T8TRAAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋From great grape fiascos to wars...wit and wisdom from India, Hungary, South Africa, Poland and the United States... Poignant, funny, tender, frightening, insightful memoirs - and a bit of fiction -- narrated in the distinctive voices of Angelenos originally from a range of continents, countries and times.Andre van Zijl, internationally renowned artist from South Africa, starts off the book with the opening words of his autobiography: "Africa grips me by the throat. Shakes me like a dog with a rat, refusing to let me go."Kay Roberts, who discovered acting, writing and art in her 70's, imagines what happens after a deep whiff of laughing gas, takes us on a tour of her early years based on houses she lived in, and more. Jane Madeline, author of "The Great Grape Fiasco," writes of people and times in an earlier United States. Eliza Crawford's tales of the British India that framed her early years include stories of snake fairs, thieves, Gorbachev and more.David Brooks, a Holocast survivor, takes us to Demblin-Jrena, Poland, in 1939. The son of a prominent Jewish businessman, he and his family did not flee when WWII began; his father did not believe bad things would happen to them. David's ominous words evoke the droning of planes and explosions, foreshadowing the camps.Sophie Chudacoff moves us from the Orient Express to musings on being age 94 in the U.S. Howard Westley, a man of many talents, writes about flying glider planes during WWII, "Bees and other Pets," being a musician, and the death of his father.Earl Boretz, who wrote many stories in the first volume of "Stories from the Heart," contributes several more episodes in the lives of the wacky relatives of his cat, Mo, short for Mozart. Myra Wald writes wryly of sensuality, and more. Mori Morrison remembers the Beatles and bee stings.Writing Coach and Editor Ina Hillebrandt selected these stories for readers' pleasure, and to inspire memoir writers with the range of structures, styles and content. Flights of fiction spring from Ina's Weird Prompts?, tools she finds loosens writing muscles.