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Rosellen Brown

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Rosellen Brown is the author of the best-selling novel "Before & After" as well as "Half a Heart", "Civil Wars", & others. She lives in Chicago. (Bowker Author Biography)
Image credit: Rosellen Brown. UH Photographs Collection.

Værker af Rosellen Brown

Before and After (1992) 421 eksemplarer
Half a Heart (2000) 105 eksemplarer
Civil Wars (1984) 86 eksemplarer
Tender Mercies (1978) 69 eksemplarer
The Lake on Fire (2018) 52 eksemplarer
Cora Fry's Pillow Book (1977) 29 eksemplarer
Street Games (1974) 17 eksemplarer
The Autobiography of My Mother (1976) 16 eksemplarer
The Whole Word Catalogue (1975) 5 eksemplarer
Qui Riposa: Alternative Lives (1987) 2 eksemplarer
Før og efter (1996) 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

Jude the Obscure (1895) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver10,123 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Bidragyder — 1,552 eksemplarer
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (2001) — Bidragyder — 444 eksemplarer
Points of View: Revised Edition (1966) — Bidragyder — 411 eksemplarer
America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers (1990) — Bidragyder — 118 eksemplarer
The Jewish Writer (1998) — Bidragyder — 52 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1979 (1979) — Bidragyder — 25 eksemplarer
The New Great American Writers' Cookbook (2003) — Bidragyder — 21 eksemplarer
Mojo: Photographs by Keith Carter (1992) — Introduktion — 20 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1975 (1975) — Bidragyder — 15 eksemplarer
On the job: Fiction about work by contemporary American writers (1977) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
Cutting Edges: Young American Fiction for the 70's (1973) — Bidragyder — 8 eksemplarer
Before and After [1996 film] (2012) — Original book — 8 eksemplarer
American Short Fiction, Number 3, Fall 1991 (1991) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
Five points : a journal of literature & arts : vol. 7 no. 2 (2003) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer

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this was not a believable story in the least, but I was interested in the characters. Brown wrote good descriptions and presented interesting analogies. She also made me think about possibilities in difficult situations. I appreciated how she ended the book considering how many paths she could have taken. This was about a middle class family whose mother is a pediatrician, father is a sculptor, and the son is 16 and daughter 11. Many times people acted either older or younger than they were, but that also fiut the story. And this is another story that shows the importance of theatre in the court of law, which also is quite sad.… (mere)
 
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suesbooks | 6 andre anmeldelser | May 16, 2023 |
I just finished The Lake on Fire by Rosellen Brown last night, so am still mulling over this richly rendered novel of 1875 Chicago. The World's Fair is transforming the city's landscape with its huge Ferris wheel, but beneath the gleaming white facades is naught but flimsy lath and cardboard. A metaphor for the city itself, in which the very rich enjoy luxuries while thousands starve in the streets. Chaya and her odd, genius brother flee to the city but find it difficult to do more than survive, he as a child pickpocket, she at two jobs, rolling cigars. Like Cinderella, a wealthy man might rescue her from her drudgery, but she can barely stand the inequity of leaving everyone else behind. A novel written by a poet, who clearly loves language.… (mere)
 
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AnaraGuard | 3 andre anmeldelser | Nov 1, 2020 |
This story takes place in 1892-1894 or so in Chicago. The Columbian Exposition is an important event in it, and Jane Addams' Hull House plays an important role as well. The story follows a teen-aged secular Jewish girl and her prodigy younger brother who flee a failing farm in Wisconsin to try for a better fortune in Chicago. Their adventures lead us to understand in detail the contrast between the lives of people who work in sweat shops or sell their labor as builders and the lives of the factory owners and other wealthy people. A very good read and one of the clearest descriptions of class differences I have read. Quite relevant for our current "New Gilded Age."… (mere)
 
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styraciflua | 3 andre anmeldelser | Oct 1, 2019 |
First of, I do not know why Rosellen Brown is not more well known. To me, she is in line with writers like Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison - a new novel from her is a major cause of celebration. nothing against Sarabande but this should have come out on a major house imprint and with some publicity muscle behind it. It hurts my heart a little.

That said, this is a beautifully written novel about a Jewish family who immigrate to a farming cooperative in Wisconsin and the son and daughter who break away and move to Chicago in the mid 1890s. It is well researched and emotionally resonant. As with all of her novels, there are some scenes that I will never forget.
I know comparisons are odious but I can't help but think of another big Chicago novel that came out this year with the FULL power of a publicity machine behind it. Frankly, this is a better and more well constructed novel and one that should have been up for all the major awards. I have nothing against The Great Believers which was very well intended and thoughtful and frankly, a bit of a miss.
Long live Rosellen Brown.
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laurenbufferd | 3 andre anmeldelser | Jan 27, 2019 |

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