Rebecca Brown
Author
Language
English
Description
"An emotionally charged novel about family -- the slow accumulation of wrongs that drive us apart and the unlikely paths that lead us home again. Piper Hart has poured all her energy into raising her son, Fred, while her often-absent husband, Isaac, has poured all his energy into a career defending the wrongly accused. She's always told herself her son is perfectly normal, but somewhere deep inside her rests a tiny suspicion that all is not well....
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
"Robin Daley spends her childhood in cautious but overwhelming admiration of her hard-drinking pilot father, a man who teaches her how to hold her liquor and how to fly a plane, but not how to love and be loved. The vagabond existence to which he's committed his family leave them with no place to call home, no reality but each other - and then he leaves, abandoning Robin, her mother, and her brother to their precarious sense of selves. At this point,...
Author
Publisher
Tarpaulin Sky Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"If heaven is somewhere, it isn't with us, but somewhere we want to get -- a state, a place, a turning to home. Rebecca Brown's thirteenth book is narrative cycle that revamps old fairy tales, movies, and myths, as it leads the reader from darkness to light, from harshness to love, from where we are to where we might go"--Publisher.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When his band votes him out due to his embarrasing musical antics, Dewey has to make the rent somehow. After intercepting a call for his substitute-teacher roomie Ned, Dewey finds himself in front of a class of elite elementary school students. Dewey decides to take on the music program and makes it his goal to teach them the gospel of rock and roll. His ulterior motive is to get them to compete against his former band for a cash prize.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"When his band votes him out due to his embarrasing musical antics, Dewey has to make the rent somehow. After intercepting a call for his substitute-teacher roomie Ned, Dewey finds himself in front of a class of elite elementary school students. Dewey decides to take on the music program and makes it his goal to teach them the gospel of rock and roll. His ulterior motive is to get them to compete against his former band for a cash prize." --