Merrill Joan Gerber
Autor(a) de The Kingdom of Brooklyn
About the Author
Merrill Joan Gerber teaches creative writing at the California Institute of Technology.
Obras de Merrill Joan Gerber
Associated Works
With All My Heart, With All My Mind: Thirteen Stories About Growing Up Jewish (1999) — Contribuinte — 53 cópias
Women in the Trees: U.S. Women's Short Stories About Battering and Resistance, 1839-1994 (1996) — Contribuinte — 39 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Gerber, Merrill Joan
- Data de nascimento
- 1938-03-15
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- California, USA
- Educação
- Brandeis University (MA - English)
University of Florida - Ocupação
- professor
novelist
short story writer - Relacionamentos
- Lytle, Andrew (teacher)
- Organizações
- California Institute of Technology
- Premiações
- Wallace Stegner Fiction Fellowship (Stanford University)
Alumna of Outstanding Achievement (University of Florida, 1997)
Membros
Resenhas
Prêmios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 26
- Also by
- 6
- Membros
- 168
- Popularidade
- #126,679
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 52
- Idiomas
- 1
They were generally uninspired. Even the dutifully included humourous element would be flabby. They were as sanctimoniously moral as Newberry's goody two shoes.
Which is why I'm nervous of reviewing this. Reduced to bullet points, it sounds like bibliotherapy hell.
Heroine's mum stresses about diets and being fat. 16 year old heroine is mildly regretful she has plump metabolism but not remotely stressed about it. I loved the heroine; she was a good person without inducing eye rolling, mature without beiing unconvincing. She wants to learn hebrew from the granny substitute she visits regularly. She loses patience with aerobics-mad friend but bonds with the friend's hippy mum. She gets into belly dancing where being curvy is a plus, fights to maintain boundaries with her mum, and comes out of it all okay.
The background is terribly 80s. There's a bit in a department store where they debate makeup and the colours they mention are pumpkin mustard and camel.… (mais)