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Paulette Jiles (Goodreads Author) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions Want to Read saving…
Oct 4, 2016 · Paulette Jiles. In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.
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 10, 2009 · By Paulette Jiles 349 pp. William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers. $25.99 Steven Heighton’s most recent books are a novel, “Afterlands,” and a poetry collection, “The Address Book.”
Oct 12, 2016 · Paulette Jiles was a poet before she became a novelist. And it certainly shows. Her new novel, the 2016 National Book Award nominee “News of the World,” has invited comparisons with both ...
Dec 19, 2023 · Paulette Jiles’ newest one, Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance (William Morrow 2023) is a fine adaptation of a classic hero’s-journey archetype. It is both an action-oriented adventure story and a splendidly well-written literary novel about a most painful period in our history. As Jiles has successfully done in prior novels, she creates a […]
Nov 11, 2008 · Jiles, Paulette. Paulette Jiles, poet, novelist, playwright, journalist (b at Salem, Mo 1943). A graduate, in Spanish literature, of the University of Illinois, Paulette Jiles came to Canada in 1969. After a group of her poems appeared in Mindscapes (1971), she published Waterloo Express (1973) before moving to the North for 10 years to work as ...
