[bookshare-discuss] just submitted - A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
- From: "Rik James" <d28rik@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:19:27 -0700
I just submitted - A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
It was scanned with OpenBook but I submitted it in Rich Text Format.
It was on the Bookshare Bounty Wish List.
Really a good book.
I checked and it made it to the Step 1 Download page.
I also have 2 more books all scanned and ready for validation.
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
This is also on the Bookshare Bounty Wish List.
I did upload this book, Breath, Eyes, Memory and got the Thank You for
submitting page. But it does not appear on the Step 1 page, at least when I
last checked.
Should I resubmit it? I don't want to cause confusion with a duplicate.
Perhaps someone can let me know either on or off the list.
The Woodsman's Daughter by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
This book Woodsman's Daughter, for some reason I could not get it to upload.
It is also in .RTF, and I'm sure all the forms are okay. But the error
message just says some information is incorrect or incomplete. I will try
again after awhile.
Thanks.
Rik
Here is some text about A Map of the World...
DESCRIPTION: A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
FROM THE BOOK JACKET.
In the tradition of The Good Mother by Sue Miller and Before and After by
Rosellen Brown, A Map of the World is the riveting story of how a single
mistake can forever change the lives of everyone involved - in ways that are
beyond imagination.
One unremarkable June morning, Alice Goodwin is, as usual, trying to keep in
check both her temper and her tendency to blame herself for her family's
shortcomings. Six years ago, when the Goodwins took over the last dairy farm
in the small Midwestern town of Prairie Center, they envisioned their home
as a self-made paradise. But these days, as Alice is all too aware, her
elder daughter Emma is prone to inexplicable fits of rage, her husband
Howard distrusts her maternal competence, and Prairie Center's tight-knit
suburban community shows no signs of warming to "those hippies who think
they can run a farm." A loner by nature, Alice is torn between a yearning
for solitude coupled with a deep need to be at the center of a perfect
family.
On this particular day, Emma has started the morning with a violent tantrum,
her little sister Claire is eating pennies, and it is Alice's turn to watch
her neighbor's two small girls as well as her own children. She
absentmindedly steals a minute alone that turns into ten: time enough for a
devastating accident to occur. Her neighbor's daughter Lizzie drowns in the
farm's pond, and Alice - whose volatility and unmasked directness keep her
on the outskirts of acceptance - becomes the perfect scapegoat. At the same
time, a seemingly trivial incident from Alice's past resurfaces and takes on
gigantic proportions, leading the Goodwins far from Lizzie's death into a
maze of guilt and doubt culminating in a harrowing court trial and the
family's shattering downfall.
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