Rachael Hanel

We'll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down

Memoir of a Gravedigger's Daughter

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Produktbeschreibung

Rachael Hanel is a writer, university instructor, and former journalist. She is the author of more than twenty nonfiction books for children, and her honors include two Junior Library Guild premier selections and two Minnesota Book Award nominations. Her essays have been published in the Bellingham Review, and two of her essays were selected as cowinners of the New Delta Review creative nonfiction contest in 2011; one of those was named a notable essay in the 2012 edition of The Best American Essays.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780816683468
• ISBN-10: 0816683468
• Artikelnr.: 37148297

Autorenporträt

Rachael Hanel is a writer, university instructor, and former journalist. She is the author of more than twenty nonfiction books for children, and her honors include two Junior Library Guild premier selections and two Minnesota Book Award nominations. Her essays have been published in the Bellingham Review, and two of her essays were selected as cowinners of the New Delta Review creative nonfiction contest in 2011; one of those was named a notable essay in the 2012 edition of The Best American Essays.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
1. We’ll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down
2. Digger O’Dell
3. In the Midst of Life We Are in Death
4. Stormy Weather
5. Precious in the Sight of the Lord Is the Death of His Saints
6. Break the Plow
7. As You Think, You Travel
8. When Beauty Dies
9. A Gossamer World
10. Helter Skelter
11. Opening Night
12. The Lord Giveth and the Lord Taketh Away
13. What Was Left Behind
Epilogue
Acknowledgments