Saturday Matinee

Davenport, Maxine Neely

ISBN 10: 0983943516 / ISBN 13: 9780983943518

Published by Blue Mesa Books, 2011

About this Item

Very Good: {Fast, free shipping within the U.S.} Clean, gently used copy with tight binding and minimal wear. Pages are unmarked, cover has light shelf rubbing, and spine remains strong. No writing or highlighting. Carefully inspected and shipped with protective packaging for a smooth, reliable experience.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Saturday Matinee
• Publisher: Blue Mesa Books
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0983943516
• ISBN 13: 9780983943518
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 1.07W x 15.24H x 22.86D centimeters 1.07 centimeters width by 15.24 centimeters height by 22.86 centimeters depth
• Weight: 249.476 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

This collection of interwoven short stories focuses on one family during the Great Depression. The family hard-scrabbles a life to raise their children. Their joys and trials fill the book with memorable scenes from one of America's great by-gone eras. Written by an author who lived through those times on a farm and in a family that often made-do.

About the Author

Maxine Neely Davenport’s writing evokes the toughness and passion of westerners born in the post-Steinbeck era, and portrays the struggles today's ranchers have with such problems as illegal migrant employees and cattle rustlers. Davenport grew up riding horses in Oklahoma’s Hereford Heaven territory. In college, she won national awards as editor of the East Central Journal. At Colorado State University she received a master’s degree in literature, followed by a law degree from Oklahoma University. She began writing fiction following a career in law and has completed three soon to be published novels and a number of prize winning short stories. While practicing law in Colorado Springs, she was active in Pikes Peak Writers and served as editor of The Pikes Peak Writer News Magazine. She traveled to China with other women lawyers and judges, the first People to People group allowed into that country. Later she accompanied a group of Heifer International personnel to Zimbabwe, Africa, where they visited farms and met with government officials. She spent one summer of law school at Queens college, Oxford, England, after touring Europe by automobile. Now living in Santa Fe, she keeps in touch with mountain climbing friends who shared her hikes up twenty-six of Colorado’s fourteeners. Davenport is the mother of three children, seven grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.