My Poets
8 best books like My Poets (Maureen N. McLane): A God in Ruins, Cold Comfort Farm, Quartet in Autumn, So Long, See You Tomorrow, Writing a Woman's Life, The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend, Say Something Back, The Italian Girl
| Author | Kate Atkinson |
| ISBN | 0316176532 |
In Life After Life Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In A God in Ruins, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursula’s beloved younger brother Teddy – would-be poet, RAF bomber pilot, husband and father – as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th...
| Author | Stella Gibbons |
| ISBN | 0143039598 |
Update I've just watched the film. It's even better than the book, by a long way. It's very affectionate, and very much played for gentle laughs. The cast is fantastic, some of the best actresses around including Eileen Atkins and Joanna Ab Fab Lumley, Stephen Fry and Ian McKellan. The attention to detail...
| Author | Barbara Pym |
| ISBN | 0330326481 |
This was recommended to me by various bloggers and certainly lived up to their praise. Originally published in 1977, this was Pym’s seventh novel out of nine; she died in 1980. It’s about four London office workers, all sixty-somethings who are partnerless and don’t have, or at least don’t...
So Long, See You Tomorrow
My heart was sliced to ribbons by this story. The narrator, an elderly man whose boyhood was scarred by a horrendous event, attempts to make sense of it all – and to make amends, as he tells it – 50 years down the road during the course of writing his memoirs.
In his memoirs, he talks about his...
| Author | Carolyn G. Heilbrun |
"Astute and provocative....Blends the sophistication of recent feminist theory with highly textured details fro the lives of independent and ambitious women."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Drawing on the experience of celebrated women, from George Sand and Virginia Woolf to Dorothy...
| Author | Sarah Manguso |
| ISBN | 0374167249 |
The Guardians opens with a story from the July 24, 2008, edition of the Riverdale Press that begins, “An unidentified white man was struck and instantly killed by a Metro-North train last night as it pulled into the station on West 254th Street.” Sarah Manguso writes: “The train’s engineer...
| Author | Denise Riley |
| ISBN | 1447270371 |
Say Something Back will allow readers to see just why the name of Denise Riley has been held in such high regard by her fellow poets for so long. The book reproduces A Part Song, a profoundly moving document of grieving and loss, and one of the most widely admired long poems of recent years. Elsewhere these...
| Author | Iris Murdoch |
| ISBN | 0099285231 |
A family struggles for redemption after a funeral brings dark secrets to the surface in this novel from the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea, The Sea.
The funeral of Edward’s mother brings him home for the first time in years. Though his return rekindles his affection for his childhood...
