Disappearing Ingenue
Melissa Pritchard
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Product Details
Price
$12.00
$11.16
Publisher
Anchor Books
Publish Date
June 10, 2003
Pages
256
Dimensions
5.22 X 0.56 X 8.04 inches | 0.41 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780385721899
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About the Author
Melissa Pritchard is the author of two short story collections, The Instinct for Bliss and Spirit Seizures, and two novels, Phoenix and Selene of the Spirits. Pritchard was awarded a Pushcart Prize for "Funktionslust," which appeared in The Paris Review. Her story "Salve Regina" was included in Prize Stories 2000: The O. Henry Awards. Among numerous other awards, she has received the Flannery O'Connor Award, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and a Howard Foundation Fellowship from Brown University. She is Director of the M.F.A. Creative Writing Program at Arizona State University and is on the faculty of Spalding University.
Reviews
"There is so much in Pritchard's talent that amazes: her dazzling language, the constant surprise of her details, the keen eye for dishonesty and disappointment." --The Chicago Tribune
"Pritchard's writing is precise and lucid . . . sharp and funny." --The New York Times Book Review "Wildly imaginative. . . . Endearingly quirky." --Glamour "Delightfully odd." --Entertainment Weekly
"Pritchard's writing is precise and lucid . . . sharp and funny." --The New York Times Book Review "Wildly imaginative. . . . Endearingly quirky." --Glamour "Delightfully odd." --Entertainment Weekly
