The Girls on the Roof - Softcover

Swander, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934999539 ISBN 13: 9781934999530

Publisher: Turning Point, 2009

Synopsis

Rolling down like a mighty river, the tales in Mary Swander’s The Girls on the Roof carry the reader along swiftly and surely, with undeniable power and strength.

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About the Author:

Mary Swander is the author of several books of poetry and nonfiction. Her award-winning memoir Out of this World: A Journey of Healing that was originally published by Viking/Penguin (1995) was reprinted by the University of Iowa Press in 2008. Swander is also known for her memoir The Desert Pilgrim (Viking, 2003, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection.) She is the author of three other books of poetry, Heaven-and-Earth House (Alfred Knopf, 1994), Driving the Body Back (Alfred Knopf, 1986), Succession (University of Georgia Press, 1979), as well as a book of literary interviews, Parsnips in the Snow (with Jane Staw, University of Iowa Press, 1990). Swander has edited three books: The Healing Circle: Authors on Recovery from Illness (Plume, 1998, with Patricia Foster); Bloom and Blossom, a collection of garden literature from Ecco Press (1997); and Land of the Fragile Giants, an edited collection of non-fiction and art work on the Loess Hills (with Cornelia Mutel, University of Iowa Press, 1994). Swander received her M.F.A from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. She is a professor of English and a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University. She lives in an old Amish schoolhouse, raises geese, goats, and a large organic garden, and plays the banjo.

About this edition

• Publisher: Turning Point
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1934999539
• ISBN 13: 9781934999530
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 102