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Susan Vreeland
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Girl in Hyacinth Blue
— published 1999 — 39 editions |
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The Passion of Artemisia
— published 2002 — 29 editions |
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Clara and Mr. Tiffany
— published 2011 — 3 editions |
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Luncheon of the Boating Party
— published 2007 — 3 editions |
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The Forest Lover
— published 2004 — 14 editions |
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Life Studies: Stories
— published 2004 — 12 editions |
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What Love Sees
— published 1988 — 5 editions |
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What English Teachers Want: A Survival Guide
— published 1996 |
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Girl in Hyacinth Bue
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Clara and Mr. Tiffany
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"I bought this book from Main Street Books, a small independent bookstore in St. Charles, Missouri while I was on tour, because of its appealing medieval cover (hardback is different from what is pictured here) and because the flap copy told me enough...more
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Susan Vreeland said:
"The classic analysis of First Corinthians, chapter 13. Drummond has produced a treatise on love so wise, so full, so spiritual that it makes me want to elevate and broaden my concept of love and practice the unselfed, generous, broad, spiritual love...more
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"CREATIVE ENCOURAGEMENT from dancer Martha Graham, written to Agnes deMille, choreographer. I found this equally applicable to writing:
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"Definitions of ekphrasis differ, I am discovering. I took the looser approach here. Scholar Miriam Viera does not consider an opera or a film based on...more
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made a comment on That Mysterious Girl in Hyacinth Blue
"Oh, Ylisse, this comment thrills me. M first assignment when I was hired to teach high school was tenth grade English. I love to think you transported...more
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Here are excerpts from my review in the Washington Post, Jan. 22, 2013: Edgar Degas’s wax-and-fabric statuette “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” has held the curiosity of millions in its 28 bronze reproductions, but far fewer know the heart-rending histo...more |
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is on page 131 of 448 of How Green Was My Valley: Although I am enjoying its conflicts and description and characters, I've made slow progress because I'm so focused on writing Lisette's List. I will not abandon it completely though.
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| A story rarely told in the vast compendium of World War II literature, the Siege of Leningrad is spread before us, not in its horror of starvation of thousands, but from the memory of one woman. I find that when widespread horror is revealed in the e...more | |
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| I rarely buy a book on impulse seeing it for the first time in a bookstore and buying it before I read a review, but I did with this book, and I'm glad I did. The subject (an author searching for a subject) and the setting (newly post-WWII, which is...more | |
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made a comment on Why I Wrote Clara & Mr. Tiffany
"Orsolya, I'm guessing that you'll like the character of Emily Carr of The Forest Lover just as much."
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“That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact, can survive natural catastrophe, neglect, and even mistreatment, has always filled me with wonder. Sometimes in museums, looking at a humble piece of pottery from ancient Persia or Pompeii, or a finely wrought page from a medieval illuminated manuscript toiled over by a nameless monk, or a primitive tool with a carved handle, I am moved to tears. The unknown life of the maker is evanescent in its brevity, but the work of his or her hands and heart remains.”
― Susan Vreeland
― Susan Vreeland
“It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it became vacuous and trite, meaningless to anyone else. In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments.”
― Susan Vreeland
― Susan Vreeland
“You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life.”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany
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