The author infuses her short stories, which portray a wide range of life experience, with a commanding knowledge of idioms and class distinction, and a sharp sense of developing social trends

Getting to Know the Weather

Literature & Fiction

Painter, Pamela

United States

University of Illinois Press

Organized by the elements of fiction and comprised primarily of writing exercises, this text helps students hone and refine their craft with a practical, hands-on approach to writing fiction.

What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers (2nd Edition)

Business & Money

Bernays, Anne

Economics

Longman

An essential to any writer's library, What If? is comprised entirely of specific exercises intended to help the reader master the art of writing fiction. The exercises isolate the various elements of fiction - dialogue, plot, characterization, point- of-view, etc. - and present specific problems to solve through writing. Directed toward both beginners and professional writers, this book addresses topics such as discovering where to start and end a story; learning when to use dialogue and when to use indirect discourse; transforming real events into fiction; and finding language that both sings and communicates precisely. For those interested in writing fiction.

What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers, Second Edition

History & Criticism

Harpercollins College Div

Since its first publication in 1982, The Divorce Handbook has sold over 200,000 copies. In this new and fully revised edition, specialist in family law James T. Friedman covers, in an easy-to-use question-and-answer format, all the issues involved in negotiating a separation and divorce--how to choose a lawyer; how to arrange child custody, support, and visitation; how to prevent financial hide-and-seek; what to expect of the divorce proceedings themselves; and what to do if the divorce goes to trial. This revised edition addresses current trends in such areas as divorce law, alimony, property division, shared parenting, and visitation; it includes an expanded section of checklists, schedules, and guides for reconciliation and child support, as well as attorney retainer agreements, asset/liability worksheets, and more. The American Bar Association has called The Divorce Handbook "a welcome breath of fresh air in an otherwise stifling atmosphere created by a virtual avalanche of books about divorce." The revised edition of The Divorce Handbook is your best guide through the traumatic and painful business of divorce, and will be an essential resource for years to come.

The Divorce Handbook: Your Basic Guide to Divorce (Revised and Updated)

Self-Help

Friedman, James T.

Powell, Enid Levinge

Relationships

Random House]

Book by Bernays, Anne, Painter, Pamela

What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Watson-Guptill Pubns

The Long and Short of It (Series in Short Fiction)

Contemporary

Carnegie-Mellon University Press

A reissuing of Getting to Know the Weather, stories by Pamela Painter.

Literary

Pamela Painter writes a tight arc, provides a heartstopping ride. Her characters love and lose and long for more as if their lives depended on it. And they do.

Wouldn't You Like to Know

Short Stories & Anthologies

A crowning collection from the award-winning short story writer Pamela Painter. Pamela Painter's short stories have been praised by Margot Livesey for their "wicked intelligence and ruthless humor." In Fabrications, which brings together 7 new and 24 selected stories, characters struggle to avoid the chaos in their lives, but--driven by addictions and appetites--often bring on disaster. Nobody is ordinary in Painter's stories. A burglar can't believe what he is asked to do by the woman whose jewelry he is stealing. Hitchhikers, hell-bent on murder, are thwarted by the miracle of story-telling. A wife can make rooms--and her husband--disappear, but saves the family dog. A young woman insists on the romance of being married in an Elvis Presley chapel, but for the wrong reasons. Fabrications is a testament to Painter's lyric skill and psychological insight across her career. Praise for Previous Books by Pamela Painter "These wonderful stories--about dogs and housewives, scholars and teenagers--vividly demonstrate Painter's wicked intelligence and ruthless humor and her utterly democratic interest in all our faults and foibles. . . . [A] quirky, sexy, irresistible collection."--Margot Livesey "Pamela Painter's stories are warm, wise, funny, and ultimately true to the way we live now--trying to carry on in the face of things breaking down around us. Reading each story is a thrill--for the full-blown lives, astute details, exact metaphors, and pitch-perfect dialogue. She's like a carpenter--nailing it, again and again."--Bobbie Ann Mason "This is fiction of immense beauty, full of wisdom and informed by rare grace."--Steve Yarbrough

Fabrications: New and Selected Stories (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)

Genre Fiction

Johns Hopkins University Press

Ploughshares Fall 2003 Guest-Edited by Alice Hoffman

BERG, Elizabeth

PALEY, Grace

Davies, Peter Ho

Martin, Tom

Standing, Sue

Nelson, Antonya

Phillips, Jayne Anne.

Maguire, Gregory

Ploughshares / Emerson College

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