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Paulette Jiles finds in storytelling a distinctively female, profoundly personal response to experience. In "Horror Stories," Jiles' narrative voice states that "All women believe they are Scheherazade. They believe / they too will or are about to die / in burning buildings." 1 In order to forestall fatal events, to displace them, women tell ...
Apr 14, 2020 · Jiles writes: “He knew that he did not play music so much as walk into it, as if into a palace of great riches, with rooms opening into other rooms, which opened into still other rooms, and in ...
Sep 5, 2023 · Paulette Jiles' latest novel, "Chenneville," is a gritty, atmospheric revenge story, set in a nation shattered by the Civil War. The narrator is John Chenneville, 32, 6-foot-3, heir to a tobacco ...
Apr 14, 2020 · Jiles follows up National Book Award finalist News of the World (2016, etc.) with another atmospheric adventure in post–Civil War Texas.. During his few reluctant months in the Confederate Army, Simon Boudlin’s main concerns are staying alive and protecting his precious fiddle so that after the war he can make enough money to buy some land and settle down with the right woman.
Nov 7, 2016 · By Paulette Jiles. 213 pp. William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers. $22.99. As Paulette Jiles’s new novel opens, it’s the winter of 1870 in Wichita Falls, Tex., and raining hard. The town’s ...
Apr 10, 2007 · Paulette Jiles is a novelist, poet, and memoirist. She is the author of Cousins, a memoir, and the novels Enemy Women, Stormy Weather, The Color of Lightning, Lighthouse Island, Simon the Fiddler, and News of the World, which was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award. She lives on a ranch near San Antonio, Texas. Hometown: Southwest Texas.
Jan 14, 2021 · Paulette Jiles is an American poet, memoirist, and novelist. HarperCollins, BookStudio16. Readers first met, if briefly, the itinerant musician Simon Boudin in Paulette Jiles’s best-selling and ...
