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Kay Boyle
At 17, Nan wants to leave the family farm and go to study. Caught between her powerful mother and yielding, drunken father, she absorbs the tensions of their divided household…
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Marilyn Roberson Elkins
Covers the works of Kay Boyle (1902–1992), one of the Lost Generation of expatriate writers in Europe between the World Wars, and author of novels, short stories, childrens books, poetry…
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Tells the story of Kerith Day, in search of her own identity and place in the world. A critical observer of the dreary industrial landscape and the beaten-down inhabitants of…
When Death of a Man was first published in 1936, the anonymous reviewer in Time described the novel as a Nazi idyll. Nothing could be further from the truth. Boyle…
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Boyle, 50 Stories. An eloquent testament to the possibilities of living and writing.
I think my Crazy Hunter is the best thing I’ve ever done, Kay Boyle wrote to her sister Joan in 1939, two weeks after she had finished writing it. Twenty…
Marilyn Elkins
Kay Boyle was an active participant in the Lost Generation and experimental modernism. Yet her texts force readers to consider the underlying connections between their private lives and political events…
One of the Lost Generation modernists who gathered in 1920s Paris, Kay Boyle published more than forty books, including fifteen novels, eleven collections of short fiction, eight volumes of poetry…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Kay Boyle’s Astronomer’s Wife, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
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A Study Guide for Kay Boyle’s Black Boy, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Thirteen stories deal with three sisters, a young woman’s dashed hopes, failed love, life’s dissatisfactions, missed opportunities, and the search for identity.
A Study Guide for Kay Boyle’s The White Horses of Vienna, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…
Wolfgang Borchert
This collection of Borchert’s most important prose, translated by A. D. Porter with an Introduction by Stephen Spender, includes the complete text of the title play, as well as 39…
Caroline Maun
A detailed look into the friendship and professional network of a group of significant modern American women writers.
Zofia P. Lesinska
In their writings composed during the Second World War and the political turmoil of the 1930s in Europe, Gertrude Stein, Janet Flanner, Kay Boyle, and Rebecca West interrogated the limitations…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2018, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA in November 2018. The total of 66 papers…
The third in a landmark series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 brings you the best of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012.
