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Jun 20, 2017 · June 20, 2017. The novelist/poet discusses westerns, accolades, and her admiration for world-building narratives. (In honor of today's release of the paperback version of News of the World, we present an interview we did with author Paulette Jiles last fall.) In her latest novel, News of the World, Paulette Jiles masterfully evokes the American ...
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 · Fans of Paulette Jiles’s “News of the World” will be delighted — and perhaps a little disappointed — by the author’s seventh book, “Simon the Fiddler.” With her previous novel ...
Sep 12, 2023 · That’s a lot to pack into a short, vigorous volume, but Ms. Jiles is capable of saying a lot in few words.” — New York Times “Paulette Jiles’ spare Western packs a powerful punch. And, boy, can Jiles write. . . News of the World is surprisingly tender, but never soft. It’s lovely.” — USA Today (4 out of 4 stars)
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North Spirit. (1995) Description / Buy at Amazon. Paulette Jiles is an American novelist, poet, and writer of memoirs. Paulette K. Jiles was born on April 4, 1943, in Salem, Missouri. She would seek higher education while attending the University of Missouri in Kansas City. She studied Romance Languages as her major and graduated in 1968.
Apr 14, 2020 · Paulette Jiles returns to the Civil War era with the romantic western ‘Simon the Fiddler’. Science fiction and fantasy are soaring higher, and romance is hotter, but the sun has never set on ...
Sep 17, 2013 · Nadia Stepan, abandoned by her parents when she was 4 year-old, dreams of Lighthouse Island, a vacation spot where she believes her long-lost parents may be.Nadia grows up reading old and neglected books. She meets James Orotov, a mapmaker and demolitions expert who is confined to a wheelchair due to an accident.
