Glenda Burgess
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http://www.goodreads.com/glendaburgess
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The United States
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Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Arts & Photography
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Literary influences include 19th and 20th c. literary novels of character and landscape by authors such as Lawrence Durrell, Duras, Somerset Maugham, E.M. Forster, Bowles, Virginia Woolf, John Gardner and Isak Dinesen. Poets such as Louise Gluck, Neruda, William Carlos Williams, Levertov, Katrina Roberts, Mary Oliver, Billy Collins, Robert Haas, Campbell McGrath and Anne Carson for their gifts of imagery and distillation and cadence of language.
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September 2007
about this author
"Burgess' tender recollections...remind us all that we tend to be defined by our great loves well after we've lived them." - Elle Magazine
"I read Glenda Burgess' poignant and harrowing memoir, THE GEOGRAPHY OF LOVE, in one sitting-- in one breath -- and all I had ever felt about love's ability to vanquish everything, to swallow heartbreak, to correct history, Burgess makes us believe. And in a fashion that reads like a classic novel." - Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean
Glenda Burgess is a winner of The Rupert Hughes Fiction Award, and a short story finalist for the New Century Writer Award. She has published two novels and most recently a memoir, The Geography of Love, B...more
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The Geography of Love: A Memoir by Glenda Burgess (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.60 — 144 ratings — published 2008 4 editions |
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Loose Threads by Glenda Burgess (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.80 — 5 ratings — published 1998 2 editions |
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Exposures by Glenda Burgess (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2005 |
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LOOSE THREADS (Literature & Fiction)
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Newly released second edition, 2008!
"In today's fast-paced world, how does anyone find a life that matters? Ellen d'Ullay is about to risk everything, following that one loose thread..A novel rich in detail about the world of international diplomacy and the inner obsessions of struggling artists, LOOSE THREADS is a sophisticated, intelligent read - direct and powerful with take-your-breath away passages of eloquent writing." reader from Washington D.C.
EXPOSURES, a novel (Literature & Fiction)
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The opportunity that is youth and the journey that is age. A tale of two destinies, two passions undiminished by setback or denial. Music and Photography.
THE GEOGRAPHY OF LOVE (Biographies & Memoirs)
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Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? This tender and intimate story of a marriage provides an answer that will resonate with readers of "About Alice," "The Year of Magical Thinking," and Erich Segal's beloved novel "Love Story."
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"Brenda Miller's spare and perfect language makes these essays on life and the emotional terrain of relationship deeply satisfying.
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"Physicists say we are made of stardust. Intergalactic debris and far-flung atoms, shards of carbon nanomatter rounded up by gravity to circle the sun. As atoms pass through an eternal revolving door of possible form, energy and mass dance in fluid relationship. We are stardust, we are man, we are thought. We are story."
— Glenda Burgess (The Geography of Love: A Memoir)
— Glenda Burgess (The Geography of Love: A Memoir)
"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."
— Oscar Wilde
— Oscar Wilde
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"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."
— François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
— François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Q&A with Glenda Burgess
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Glenda Burgess will be available September 2nd through September 12th to answer questions about her new book, The Geography of Love. Please feel free ...more
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Hello Glenda--
Thanks for the friend invite here at GoodReads. And congratulations on your rather exceptional literary accomplishments. After reading your profile I feel a need to step on the gas and get seriously busy again:-)
If you need any more outlets for promoting your work, please feel free to set up a profile with us at Creative Thinkers International: http://www.creativethinkersintl.ning.com...
Blessings,
Aberjhani
