Glenda Burgess
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http://www.goodreads.com/glendaburgess
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female
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The United States
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Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Arts & Photography
influences
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
"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, Broadway Books 2008, named one of the Top Ten Books of 2008 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and a finalist for the Books for a Better Life Award.
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The Geography of Love: A Memoir by Glenda Burgess (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.66 — 110 ratings — published 2008 |
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Loose Threads (Great American First Novels) by Glenda Burgess (Goodreads author) avg rating 5.00 — 4 ratings — published 1998 2 editions |
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Exposures, a novel by Glenda Burgess (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published 2005 |
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upcoming events
Softcover release of "The Geography of Love"
Author appearance, August 05, 2009 12:00PM
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THE GEOGRAPHY OF LOVE - softcover release of the memoir named by the Seattle P...more
Author appearance, August 05, 2009 12:00PM
all bookstores, booksellers and web outlets, The United States
http://www.glendaburgessbooks.com
THE GEOGRAPHY OF LOVE - softcover release of the memoir named by the Seattle P...more
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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Blessing of the Animals (Paperback) by Brenda Miller bookshelves: currently-reading |
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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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Glenda made a comment on Poet-I-Am's review of
You Are A Genius
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Glenda made a comment on Lain's review of
Outliers
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Inside the Not So Big House: Discovering the Details that Bring a Home to Life (Susanka)
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Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction (Paperback) by Charles Baxter |
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""Must read" essays on fiction and character by one of America's foremost masters of narrative. Baxter's approachable style and direct language makes these essays both a pleasure to read and vividly useful to all writers.
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Blessing of the Animals (Paperback) by Brenda Miller |
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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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Revolutionary Road (Paperback) by Richard Yates |
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Outliers (Hardcover) by Malcolm Gladwell |
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read in April, 2009
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"Heh, interesting and well written...the patterns of genius and success in life are the topics of Gladwell's discussion of cause and effect in the realm of brilliance, break-through thinking, and invention.
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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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— last activity 09/13/2008 10:24AM
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
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