ISBN: 0312267681

Embroidery is the central metaphor in Laura Hendrie's absorbing and offbeat first novel, Remember Me (functioning much as quilting does in Whitney Otto's How to Make an American Quilt). … More...

Embroidery is the central metaphor in Laura Hendrie's absorbing and offbeat first novel, Remember Me (functioning much as quilting does in Whitney Otto's How to Make an American Quilt). The title is taken from an old American sampler: "When this you see, Remember me," and each chapter begins with an aphorism from an antique sampler. The book's eccentric heroine, 29-year-old Rose Devonic, often expresses herself in Nouveau Sampler: "Let go of where you belong and who you belong with and you're lost," she claims. But Rose is an outcast in her hometown, Queduro, New Mexico--"nothing more than a few dozen Spanish, English and Anglo families who know each other too well--three bicycles, one tractor, five horses, no church, no school, no paved roads..." Though she has lived here all her life, the locals have never accepted her. "She wouldn't go to church, she didn't wear clean clothes or brush her hair, she borrowed money and gave away gifts and napped in public..." More important, Rose doesn't show the proper dedication and respect to the craft of embroidery. In Queduro, needlework is God, especially to the "inheritance embroiderers," who own patterns handed down for generations, for which tourists will pay up to "twenty grand a pop." Rose is too ornery, and too damaged by paralyzing tragedy in her past, to toe the line. She fights off help from handsome, kind Sheriff Frank Doby, who has loved her since childhood, but has his own crosses to bear. Alive with rema contemporary,fiction,literary,literature and fiction Literature & Fiction, Picador<

2000, ISBN: 0312267681

[EAN: 9780312267681], [PU: New York: Henry Holt, 2000.], SOUTHWESTERN WRITERS AND THE SOUTHWEST, Jacket, 1st trade paperback printing. The first novel (and second book) by this highly pra… More...

[EAN: 9780312267681], [PU: New York: Henry Holt, 2000.], SOUTHWESTERN WRITERS AND THE SOUTHWEST, Jacket, 1st trade paperback printing. The first novel (and second book) by this highly praised young writer - her first book won or was nominated for numerous awards, and this book has also been widely recommended. Dustjacket comments from Jane Hamilton, Richard Russo and Kent Haruf. Set in a small town in Mexico. Near fine.<

2000, ISBN: 0312267681

[EAN: 9780312267681], [PU: New York: Henry Holt, 2000.], Jacket, 1st trade paperback printing. The first novel (and second book) by this highly praised young writer - her first book won o… More...

[EAN: 9780312267681], [PU: New York: Henry Holt, 2000.], Jacket, 1st trade paperback printing. The first novel (and second book) by this highly praised young writer - her first book won or was nominated for numerous awards, and this book has also been widely recommended. Dustjacket comments from Jane Hamilton, Richard Russo and Kent Haruf. Set in a small town in Mexico. Near fine.<

2000, ISBN: 9780312267681

New York: Henry Holt, 2000. 1st trade paperback printing. Near fine. The first novel (and second book) by this highly praised young writer - her first book won or was nominated for n… More...

New York: Henry Holt, 2000. 1st trade paperback printing. Near fine. The first novel (and second book) by this highly praised young writer - her first book won or was nominated for numerous awards, and this book has also been widely recommended. Dustjacket comments from Jane Hamilton, Richard Russo and Kent Haruf. Set in a small town in Mexico., New York: Henry Holt, 2000.<

2000, ISBN: 9780312267681

Picador, 2000-10-18. Paperback. Good. 1.0000 in x 8.2800 in x 5.5000 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear ., Picador, 2000-10-18