Iron Shoes by Molly Giles
Kay Sorenson is stuck. She is forty years old and still trying -- and failing -- to please her glamorous, willful, and indifferent parents. She abandoned a promising music career, settled into a loveless marriage, became a careless mother, and began to drink, smoke, and daydream too much. But when her mother dies, Kay is left without her lifelong crutch and is finally forced to take her first tentative steps toward becoming the woman she wants to be.
Molly Giles, with her keen eye and ear for a story, is soon to be an acclaimed writer of our times. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Giles's first collection, Rough Translations, received the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and was published by the University of Georgia Press (1985). This same work also received the Boston Globe Award and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for Fiction. She has won numerous other writing awards, including a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award and a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Award.
Ms. Giles's fiction has been widely published in journals and magazines, including Redbook, San Francisco Review of Books Literary Supplement, New England Review, and Five Fingers Review.
She won the National book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Book Reviewing in 1991. Her book reviews have appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Jose Mercury News.
She has a masters degree in English and is an associate professor at San Francisco State University. Acknowledged by her well-known students for her keen eye and ear for a story and for her writing abilities, Giles has also taught such bestselling novelists as Amy Tan and Gus Lee in writing workshops. She lives in Woodacre, Calif
Ms. Giles's fiction has been widely published in journals and magazines, including Redbook, San Francisco Review of Books Literary Supplement, New England Review, and Five Fingers Review.
She won the National book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Book Reviewing in 1991. Her book reviews have appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Jose Mercury News.
She has a masters degree in English and is an associate professor at San Francisco State University. Acknowledged by her well-known students for her keen eye and ear for a story and for her writing abilities, Giles has also taught such bestselling novelists as Amy Tan and Gus Lee in writing workshops. She lives in Woodacre, Calif
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| ISBN 13 | 9780684859927 |
| ISBN 10 | 0684859920 |
| Title | Iron Shoes |
| Author | Molly Giles |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Simon And Schuster |
| Year published | 2001-08-10 |
| Number of pages | 244 |
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