Beata Rustica: The Tale of the Would-Be Saint (Paperback or Softback)

Steinbach, Meredith

ISBN 10: 0988283611 / ISBN 13: 9780988283619

Published by House of Remington 11/8/2013, 2013

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Beata Rustica: The Tale of the Would-Be Saint.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beata Rustica: The Tale of the Would-Be Saint (Paperback or Softback)
• Publisher: House of Remington 11/8/2013
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0988283611
• ISBN 13: 9780988283619
• Binding: Paperback or Softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 0.46 pounds
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

Beata Rustica: The Tale of the Would-Be Saint A novel by Meredith Steinbach Lauded for her “gorgeous prose” by the N.Y. Times Book Review, and by Publisher’s Weekly for being “a writer of sensitivity and grace," Meredith Steinbach presents in her new novel BEATA RUSTICA an elegant and disturbing view of the inequities of our time as seen through the eyes of a beautiful, young dwarf. Confined not only to living at home with her family, but also to living in a basket when both she and her family forget that she can walk, Beatrice sets out to record all she remembers while on her self-imposed hunger strike toward sainthood. She fails to foresee the arrival of a mammoth cousin, the devotion of villagers, the designs of an uncle, the mercenary nature of her own mother, and the amorous wiles of the owner of the local egg factory. Wryly comic, at times appropriately dark, BEATA RUSTICA is a modern day Canterbury Tale set under the boundless open skies of the rustic midlands.

About the Author

Meredith Steinbach is the award-winning author of Beata Rustica: The Tale of the Would-Be Saint, The Charmed Life of Flowers: Field Notes from Provence (2013 Paris Book Festival, 1st place winner), The Birth of the World as We Know It; or, Teiresias, Zara, Here Lies The Water, one play and numerous short stories including the collection Reliable Light. Prizes and honors for Meredith Steinbach's fiction have included Winner of the 2013 Paris Book Festival, international general fiction category, Thomas J. Watson Institute Travel Grant for research in France and Greece; Mary Ingraham Bunting Fellowship of Radcliffe College at Harvard University; O. Henry Award for the Short Story; 100 Distinguished Stories, Best American Short Stories; National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship; Pushcart Prize for the Short Story, Rhode Island State Artists' Grants, University of Iowa Fairall Scholarship for Fiction Writing, and others. Professor Steinbach lives in a sea captain's cottage on the Rhode Island coast with her family, along with a spin-dancing corgi and a Great Pyrenees mountain dog. She taught at Antioch College, Northwestern University, and the University of Washington before coming to Brown University where she is Professor of Literary Arts.