Hillary Jordan
Auteur van Mudbound
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- Officiële naam
- Jordan, Hillary
- Geboortedatum
- 1963
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Dallas, Texas, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
Dallas, Texas, USA
Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA - Opleiding
- Wellesley College (BA ∙ English and Political Science)
Columbia University (MFA ∙ Creative Writing) - Beroepen
- advertising copywriter
novelist - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- One of twelve New Voices of 2008 chosen by Waterstone's UK
- Agent
- Chris Parris-Lamb (The Gernert Co.)
- Korte biografie
- Hillary Jordan grew up in Texas and Oklahoma. She received her BA in English and Political Science from Wellesley College and spent fifteen years as an advertising copywriter before starting to write fiction. She got her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. She is the author of two novels, both from Algonquin Books: MUDBOUND, published in 2008, and WHEN SHE WOKE, forthcoming October 4, 2011.
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- #5,411
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- 3.9
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- 384
- ISBNs
- 90
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The story started okay, explaining who the character was, her predicament and the hows and whys of how she got there. After that, the story pretty much dropped off and it just felt like it was all over the place and NOTHING was resolved. What happened to her sister and Cole? What happened to the people that ran the home she spent those six weeks at? There was mention that the Novembrists might do something to them, but nothing ever happened. Her situation with Aidan, I felt there was no resolution there either. I was sorely disappointed with the story and felt like the author just hurried up and finished. It's almost as if Hillary Jordan got tired of writing and said "screw it, I'm done, let's wrap it up and put a bow on it." I give the book three stars because the idea behind the book is a good one and I did enjoy reading about that. This is just another one of those books that I feel the author could've done so much more with.… (meer)