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Hillary Jordan

Autor(a) de Mudbound

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Mudbound [2017 film] (2022) — Original book — 6 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome de batismo
Jordan, Hillary
Data de nascimento
1963
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Dallas, Texas, USA
Locais de residência
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Dallas, Texas, USA
Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA
Educação
Wellesley College (BA ∙ English and Political Science)
Columbia University (MFA ∙ Creative Writing)
Ocupação
advertising copywriter
novelist
Premiações
One of twelve New Voices of 2008 chosen by Waterstone's UK
Agente
Chris Parris-Lamb (The Gernert Co.)
Pequena biografia
Hillary Jordan grew up in Texas and Oklahoma. She received her BA in English and Political Science from Wellesley College and spent fifteen years as an advertising copywriter before starting to write fiction. She got her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. She is the author of two novels, both from Algonquin Books: MUDBOUND, published in 2008, and WHEN SHE WOKE, forthcoming October 4, 2011.

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Resenhas

A couple of dozen erotic vignettes by leading contemporary authors. I think the overall quality was mediocre but there were a few really well written ones: History Lesson, En Suite, Love Doll, What The Hands Remember, maybe a couple of others. Recommend checking the first page of each to see what grabs you as reading cover to cover will leave you disappointed.
 
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spuddybuddy | outras 4 resenhas | Apr 10, 2024 |
Excellent writing, excellent story, complex characters and storyline.
 
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bookem | outras 205 resenhas | Mar 27, 2024 |
I wanted so badly to LOVE this book. I wanted it to take up residence on my "favorites" shelf. The subject matter of this book, I just knew, as soon as I saw it, this was right up my alley. I promptly put it on my wish list over at barnes and noble, high priority, even. When I saw that the nookbook had one day dropped in price to $3.99 from $14 , I got that tingly feeling that only getting a much-wanted book at a bargain price can give.

The story started okay, explaining who the character was, her predicament and the hows and whys of how she got there. After that, the story pretty much dropped off and it just felt like it was all over the place and NOTHING was resolved. What happened to her sister and Cole? What happened to the people that ran the home she spent those six weeks at? There was mention that the Novembrists might do something to them, but nothing ever happened. Her situation with Aidan, I felt there was no resolution there either. I was sorely disappointed with the story and felt like the author just hurried up and finished. It's almost as if Hillary Jordan got tired of writing and said "screw it, I'm done, let's wrap it up and put a bow on it." I give the book three stars because the idea behind the book is a good one and I did enjoy reading about that. This is just another one of those books that I feel the author could've done so much more with.… (mais)
 
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thatnerd | outras 171 resenhas | Mar 2, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
6
Also by
1
Membros
4,686
Popularidade
#5,386
Avaliação
3.9
Resenhas
386
ISBNs
90
Idiomas
12
Favorito
9

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