Angel in the Parlor

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781480481572

<DIV><B>This delightful collection brings together five short stories and eight essays on writing by Newbery Medal&ndash;winning author Nancy Willard</B><BR /><BR />Nancy Willard&rsquo;s gift for bringing out the whimsical in all of us illuminates this memorable anthology.<BR /><BR />&ldquo; &lsquo;Who Invented Water?&rsquo; &rdquo; celebrates the craft and magic of creating children&rsquo;s books. In &ldquo;Becoming a Writer,&rdquo; Willard admits she dislikes giving and receiving advice. She prefers telling a story, with real-life characters ranging from members of her own family to Jane Austen, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Charles Dickens on stilts. &ldquo;The Well-tempered Falsehood&rdquo; explores the fabulist art of storytelling; &ldquo;The Rutabaga Lamp&rdquo; is a dreamy, delightful riff on how to read and write fairy tales. &#160;&#160;<BR /><BR />In an autobiographical piece, &ldquo;Her Father&rsquo;s House,&rdquo; Erica, Theo, and their three-year-old son travel home for the funeral of Erica&rsquo;s father. As the whole family gathers, the heroine is hit with an onslaught of memories, Willard style. &ldquo;The Tailor Who Told the Truth&rdquo; is Morgon Axel, who tells nothing but lies . . . until the day a wild boar comes into his shop. &#160;<BR /><BR />This ebook includes an introduction by Robert Pack, former director of the Bread Loaf Writers&rsquo; Conference.</DIV>