The Paragraph Ranch

Kay Ellington

ISBN 10: 1935619195 / ISBN 13: 9781935619192

Published by Boldface Books Mai 2016, 2016

About this Item

Neuware - Every writer knows you can't go home again. But that's just what is required of West Texas expatriate Dee Bennett-Kaufmann when her mother is badly injured in a mysterious car accident.Single-again 'Dr. Dee' has never been on the 'A-team' in her trendy East Coast MFA program. When a prestigious summer fellowship gives her the chance to finally finish her book, salvage her career, and spend some quality time with her college-age daughter, Dee's certain her luck is about to change. Returning to care for her irascible, widowed mother threatens all of that.With so much at stake, Dee engineers a series of unorthodox strategies and creative tradeoffs to keep her options in play-and despite herself finds friendship, love, and the power of words in the unlikeliest of places.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Paragraph Ranch
• Publisher: Boldface Books Mai 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1935619195
• ISBN 13: 9781935619192
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 140H x 15D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 140 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 345 grams

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Synopsis

Every writer knows you can’t go home again. But that’s just what is required of West Texas expatriate Dee Bennett-Kaufmann when her mother is badly injured in a mysterious car accident.Single-again “Dr. Dee” has never been on the "A-team" in her trendy East Coast MFA program. When a prestigious summer fellowship gives her the chance to finally finish her book, salvage her career, and spend some quality time with her college-age daughter, Dee’s certain her luck is about to change. Returning to care for her irascible, widowed mother threatens all of that.With so much at stake, Dee engineers a series of unorthodox strategies and creative tradeoffs to keep her options in play—and despite herself finds friendship, love, and the power of words in the unlikeliest of places.

About the Author

Kay Ellington, a native West Texan, has worked in newspapers from New York to California to the Carolinas-and back again to her home state. Barbara Brannon formerly led the Publishing Laboratory at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, but got to Texas as soon as she could.