Marianne Wiggins
Auteur de Evidence of Things Unseen
A propos de l'auteur
Novelist and short-story writer Marianne Wiggins was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1947. She has received a number of awards, including the Jane Heidiger Kafka Price for Fiction and the Whiting Award. She has written for The Paris Review, Harper's, and The New York Times Book Review. (Bowker afficher plus Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Courtesy: John Fox http://www.thejohnfox.com/bookfox/2008/04/la-times-fest-2.html
Œuvres de Marianne Wiggins
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Wiggins, Marianne
- Date de naissance
- 1947
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
Paris, France
Brussels, Belgium
Rome, Italy
Los Angeles, California, USA - Études
- Manheim Township High School
- Professions
- writer
- Relations
- Rushdie, Salman (former spouse)
- Prix et distinctions
- Whiting Writers' Award (1989)
Orange Prize Shortlist (1996, Eveless Eden)
Membres
Discussions
Eveless Eden, Marianne Wiggins à World Reading Circle (Mai 2013)
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 11
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 1,690
- Popularité
- #15,205
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 56
- ISBN
- 64
- Langues
- 6
- Favoris
- 4
Then the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor initiates the creation of the Japanese internment camps and the introduction of Schiff, a Jewish lawyer who works for the war department. He is to create and supervise the Manzanar internment camp adjacent to Rocky's property.
There are at least three love stories in this saga: the one between Rocky and his wife who has died from polio at the start of the novel, the one between Schiff and Sunny (Rocky's daughter), and between Cass (Rocky's twin sister) and Lyndon Finn.
This is the kind of novel that you can inhabit and become homesick for once you finish the story. Added to the story itself, is the story of its creation when the author, Marianne Wiggins, suffered a massive stroke before the novel was completed. Her daughter worked diligently and enlisted the help of others to complete the story without changing the voice of the novel.… (plus d'informations)