The Revenant - Softcover

Reeves, Phoebe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738801488 ISBN 13: 9780738801483

Publisher: Authorhouse, 1998

Synopsis

The Revenant is a magical realist story of creation and death, about a woman's search for identity and transformation. A young woman confronts the ancestors, both living and dead, as she searches for her own redemption in her mother's murder.

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About the Author

Phoebe Reeves is a magic realist writer whose short story "The Crossing" was published on-line in SF Goth's Errata magazine, the October 1999 issue. Her novella-ization of the Outer Limits teleplay "The Quality of Mercy" for Outer Limits 3, published by Prima, was nominated for the 1997 Horror Writers Association Best Long Fiction award. Her cyber short stories, "Eyes Like Stars" and "Too Beautiful For You" were published in Midnight Zoo magazine and Midnight Zoo's 1994 anthology respectively. She also adapted and directed "Eyes Like Stars" as a radio play on Shoestring Radio Theater in San Francisco. This production aired nationally. Additionally, she's written and delivered weekly film reviews on Movie Magazine, a nationally syndicated radio show broadcast out of San Francisco. Her multicultural critical reading, thinking, and writing textbook What's The Big Idea? Writing Through Reading and Thinking was published by Prentice Hall in July of 1998. In July of 1999, Prentice Hall also published her second writing text, a cyber-culture anthology of Internet and book published readings from around the world called Turning The Century: A Bits and Bytes Reader for Developing Writers. Phoebe is an education curriculum and training consultant for YouthBuild USA. Prior to that, she was the director of YouthBuild San Antonio at the George Gervin Youth Center in San Antonio, Texas. She taught creative and nonfiction writing at the University of San Francisco and City College of San Francisco as well as at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and Leeward and Kauai Community Colleges in Hawaii. She received her MA in English Literature from the University of Massachusetts at Boston and her BA in English from Tufts University. Born of her passion for dreams and nightmares, The Revenant is her first novel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0738801488
• ISBN 13: 9780738801483
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 268