Melanie Rae Thon
Auteur van First, Body: Stories
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Melanie Rae Thon is the author of two previous novels, "Iona Moon" & "Meteors in August," as well as two story collections, "Girls in the Grass" & "First, Body." She won a Whiting Award in 1997. Originally from Montana, Thon teaches at Ohio State University. She resides in Columbus, Ohio. toon meer (Publisher Provided) Melanie Rae Thon is the author of two novels, "Iona Moon" and "Meteors in August", as well as two story collections, "Girls in the Grass" and "First, Body". Her short stories have appeared in "The Best American Short Stories" and in the finest small magazines, including "Paris Review", "Story", and "Granta". She won a Whiting Award in 1997. Thon, originally from Montana, now lives in Salt Lake City and teaches at the University of Utah. (Publisher Provided) Melanie Rae Thon is an award-winning American author and professor. Her recent works include: Silence and Song, The 7th Man, Voices of the River, and In This Light: New and Selected Stories. She is also the author of the novels, Sweet Hearts, Meteors in August, and Iona Moon, and the story collections First, Body and Girls in the Grass. Thon's work has been included in Best American Short Stories (1995, 1996), three Pushcart Anthologies (2003, 2006, 2008), and O. Henry Prize Stories (2006). Among the honor's she has received, are: a Whiting Writer's Award (1997), two NEA fellowships (1992 and 2008) A Writer's Residency from the Lannan Foundation (2005) and a fellowship from the Tanner Humanities Center (2009). (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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- Geboortedatum
- 1957
- Geslacht
- female
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Whiting Writers' Award (1997)
Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists (1996)
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Absolutely heartbreaking and lyrical. Thon weaves a haunting cyclical narrative told through an intimate point-of-view of a deaf aunt whose niece and nephew try to escape their past only to create their future within a flawed and equally troubled human world.
Flint is a juvenile delinquent on the run after escaping prison. He takes his little sister, Cecile, with him on his journey out of state. But a series of misguided judgments, bravado, and ignorance end disastrously.
Thon has the ability to transform the most grim circumstances into holy redemption through her keen observation and mystical use of language. I cried from sorrow, joy, and fear throughout reading this novel. I am left a changed person through walking in someone else's moccasins.
A must read for anyone needing forgiveness or wanting to understand those who do. A must read for anyone living in the human condition.… (meer)
Flint is a juvenile delinquent on the run after escaping prison. He takes his little sister, Cecile, with him on his journey out of state. But a series of misguided judgments, bravado, and ignorance end disastrously.
Thon has the ability to transform the most grim circumstances into holy redemption through her keen observation and mystical use of language. I cried from sorrow, joy, and fear throughout reading this novel. I am left a changed person through walking in someone else's moccasins.
A must read for anyone needing forgiveness or wanting to understand those who do. A must read for anyone living in the human condition.… (meer)
This book still haunts me. It is an evocative masterpiece. I met Thon in Vermont and learned that her writing is also a spiritual practice grounded in each moment. A must read for anyone interested in the human experience.
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In the short story, "Confessions of Raymond Good Bird," Thon's use of word choice paints a portrait of a man delivered from his earthly sins to eternal life in love. Thon describes Raymond's scarred face as "a face to love: without love, there was no way to look at you." When Raymond returns home after a twenty-two year absence, Thon describes the homecoming as "a song inside you." The family rejoices like the Biblical father in the tale of the prodigal son. No matter how many people Raymond killed during the Vietnam War, he was forgiven for "blessed was the God who hears, who had kept you alive and sustained you and delivered you whole to this moment." When Raymond dies, his soul is delivered not to Hell but into the arms of the Vietnamese mother whom he killed during the war. This Vietnamese mother becomes "the mother of God." In her arms, both she and Raymond find "only comfort." That is true deliverance.… (meer)