Shelby Hearon
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Shelby Hearon has been widely praised for the insight, wit, and subtlety with which her novels limn the complexities of marriage and family ("What Jane Austen is to courtship, Shelby Hearon is to marriage" —New York Newsday), and the ways in which place can profoundly affect us all. Now, with Ella in Bloom, Hearon gives us her sharpest, funniest, most telling novel yet.
It is the story of Ella, who has always lived in...
It is the story of Ella, who has always lived in...
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Acclaimed author Shelby Hearon is winner of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award and two Texas Institute of Letters fiction awards. Taking place during the 1960s' rebirth of feminism, The Second Dune is an insightful and emotional tale revealing one woman's search for independence. Narrator Carol Monda gracefully lends her voice to this honest exploration of the intimate realms of marriage and motherhood. Recorded Books also offers...
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For her finely crafted novels, Shelby Hearon has been awarded prestigious grants and fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim. Other accolades include five NEA/PEN prizes and two Texas Institute of Letters best novel awards. Both comic and touching, A Prince of a Fellow is a surprising twist of the old frog and princess fairy tale, set in a quirky German community in the Texas Hill Country. Christina Moore's narration perfectly captures the charm of...