Susan Fromberg Schaeffer (1940–2011)
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Susan Fromberg Schaeffer is a professor at the University of Chicago.
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The witch and the weather report; poems 1 eksemplar
Elizabeth/Elizabeth 1 eksemplar
Autobiography of Foudini M. Cat, The 1 eksemplar
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- Fødselsdato
- 1940-03-25
- Dødsdag
- 2011-08-26
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Dødssted
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Bopæl
- Rockville Centre, New York, USA
- Uddannelse
- University of Chicago
- Erhverv
- novelist
poet
professor - Relationer
- Schaeffer, Neil (husband)
- Organisationer
- Brooklyn College
University of Chicago - Kort biografi
- Susan Fromberg Schaeffer was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended South Side High School on Long Island and graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in 1961; she went on to earn a master's in 1963 and her Ph.D. 1966. The following year, she joined the faculty of Brooklyn College, where she met Neil Schaeffer, a fellow English professor and scholarly author. They married in 1970 and had two children. She made her debut as a novelist with the semiautobiographical Falling, published in 1973. During her career as a writer, she published 14 novels, including The Madness of a Seduced Woman (1983); a collection of short stories; six volumes of poetry; and two children’s books. She also contributed often to the New York Times Book Review and published a number of articles on writing in scholarly journals. She also wrote an unpublished memoir, Memories Like Splintered Glass: Growing Up in New York. In 2002, she returned to the University of Chicago to teach English and creative writing.
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è favoloso! chiunque ha o ha avuto un gatto dovrebbe leggerlo! sembra proprio scritto da un gatto e ti fa veramente cadere nella trappola di pensare che veramente il nostro felino pensa così e interpreta così le cose che noi facciamo e diciamo e le cose che gli possono accadere. almeno per me è stato così ;)
A 19th century story about obsessive love between a millworker and a stonecutter. Powerful and absorbing. Brilliant writing.
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I just don’t know how to tell about this book. It’s so strange and dreamy and upsetting at the same time. The people speak to each other obliquely and frequently quote poetry. They are enthralled by the beauties of nature, art and poetry, then turn around and cause terribly brutal things to happen. There’s the ravages of disease and other misfortunes- one long segment of the book is about a plague that strikes in summer, very unsettling. The characters for all their high education and artistic poise, are full of superstition and totally inept at dealing with illness or complications of childbirth. It doesn’t take much to bring them down. The feel of this story is very like The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck to me- in the sweeping breadth of its narrative and precise understatement. It also reminds me strongly of The Worm Ouroboros, one which I probably did not appreciate enough at the time. It feels very foreign in many ways, so I didn’t at all mind the mundane details about how people lived. At the same time it is deeply familiar, with all the concerns and dreams of humanity. One I’ll definitely have to revisit again, as there’s a lot I didn’t quite follow but found intriguing.… (mere)