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Kim Barnes is the author of the novel Finding Caruso and two memoirs, In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country—a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize—and Hungry for the World. She is coeditor with Mary Clearman Blew of Circle of Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Women Writers, and with Claire Davis of Kiss Tomorrow Hello: Notes from the Midlife Underground by Twenty-Five Women Over Forty. Her essays, stories, and poems have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, MORE magazine, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. She teaches writing at the University of... Read More
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Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
A powerful novel of young love and rural isolation from the acclaimed author of In the Wilderness.
Thomas Deracotte is just out of medical school, and his pregnant wife, Helen, have their whole future mapped out for them in upper-crust Connecticut. But they are dreamers, and they set out to create... Read more >
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Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: February 17, 1997
Price: $15.00
Poet Kim Barnes grew up in northern Idaho, in the isolated camps where her father worked as a logger and her mother made a modest but comfortable home for her husband and two children. Their lives were short on material wealth, but long on the riches of family and friendship, and... Read more >
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Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2001
Price: $13.00
From the author of the critically acclaimed In the Wilderness, comes a riveting new narrative of self-discovery and personal triumph. Hungry for the World is the story of how an intelligent and passionate young woman, yearning for an understanding of the world beyond her insular family life, found her way.
On the... Read more >
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Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $23.95
With her acclaimed memoir In the Wilderness Kim Barnes brought us to the great forests of Idaho, where geography and isolation shape love and family. Now, in her luminous new novel, she returns to this territory, offering a powerful tale of hope and idealism, faith and madness.
It is 1960 when Thomas... Read more >
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Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $15.00
A powerful novel of young love and rural isolation from the acclaimed author of In the Wilderness.
Thomas Deracotte is just out of medical school, and his pregnant wife, Helen, have their whole future mapped out for them in upper-crust Connecticut. But they are dreamers, and they set out to create... Read more >
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Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: March 21, 2006
Price: $24.95
“How could ‘old age’ be a medical diagnosis when I wasn’t even forty?”
—Lolly Winston
“… if aging is difficult for those of us who were only sometimes cute,” she says, “just imagine how hard it must be for the aging knockouts, the living dolls.”
—Rebecca McClanahan
“I love sex. I love middle-age sex... Read more >
