[bksvol-discuss] Re: testing
- From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:42:28 -0800 (PST)
And I, for one, am glad that Rik's doing so much submitting. I have cut my
submissions way down for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that I
have a new boyfriend who I've been giving my attention to, instead of
Bookshare. Life is wonderful these days! :-)
Carrie
Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, Rik.
The list has been fairly quiet for several days. Most
of the posts today have been yours about your
submissions. Boy, you've been busy. You're giving
Shelley and Carrie a run for the title of major
submitter. smile
Cindy
--- Rik James wrote:
> Testing.
> I have not received any discussion emails for
> several hours. A circumstance
> which is pretty unusual! Just testing.
>
> Thanks.
> Rik
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Submitted: Wildlife
>
> TITLE: Wildlife
> AUTHOR: Richard Ford
> YEAR OF COPYRIGHT: 1990
> GENRE: Fiction
> How Many Pages: 177 pp.
>
> SHORT DESCRIPTION:
> Set in the western landscape of Great Falls,
> Montana. Told by a young man,
> of his life with his mother and father. ?? an
> abiding sense of family and
> love, ? uncertainties and sorrows.?
>
> ISBN #: 0-87113-348-2 First edition
>
> LONGER DESCRIPTION:
>
> From the book jacket:
>
> Richard Ford's fourth novel is set in the same
> Western landscape that so
> distinguished his acclaimed collection Rock Springs,
> and with it he extends
> his reputation as "one of the most compelling and
> eloquent storytellers of
> his age... providing us with both the pleasures of
> narrative and the sad
> wisdom of art" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York
> Times).
>
> Joe Brinson was sixteen when his family moved to
> Great Falls, Montana, in
> 1960. Still young, his father and mother were
> following opportunity, much as
> they always had, with their deepest loyalties
> intact. Here, on the edge of
> the Great Plains, they were together, the three of
> them, hopeful and
> expectant.
>
> The story Joe tells, years later, is of what
> happened when suddenly their
> lives changed in ways neither he nor his parents
> ever could have
> anticipated. Looking back, what he sees is love and
> marriage; the promise of
> work and the emptiness of not working; loneliness
> and adultery; and the
> rampant forest fires that seemed to surround them
> all, and threatened to
> outlive them all. Wildlife is not, however, simply
> the story of a young
> man's coming of age. Instead it is about coming out
> into the world as it is
> and not as we had hoped, but as it resolutely is.
>
> With fierce honesty and epigrammatic brilliance,
> Wildlife examines the
> limits of how fully we can know one another, no
> matter how close the bonds
> of passion or blood. And with compassionate
> intensity Richard Ford offers an
> abiding sense of family and love, and how both can
> suffer and yet somehow
> withstand the gravest uncertainties and sorrows.
> Harrowing, transfixing, and
> affirming, this is his finest novel yet.
>
> Richard Ford is the author of three previous novels
> ? A-Piece of My Heart,
> The Ultimate Good Luck, and The Sportswriter ? as
> well as Rock Springs, a
> collection of stories.
>
> VOLUNTEER COMMENTS:
> This book of fiction was scanned using Kurzweil
> K-1000 version 10.05. Pages
> were normalized, headers removed, ranked spelling
> was run. Very few errors,
> and those detected were removed. Submitted in RTF,
> KES copy still available
> if desired. Contact me if needed at d28rik@xxxxxxxx
>
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