No Marble Angels

by Joanne Leedom-Ackerman

Overview

Characters in No Marble Angels struggle to close distances between each other, distances of race, sex, age.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781504030335
Publisher:	Open Road Integrated Media LLC
Publication date:	03/29/2016
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is a novelist, short story writer, and journalist. Her works of fiction include The Dark Path to the River and No Marble Angels. She has also published fiction and essays in books and anthologies, including Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement; Remembering Arthur Miller; Electric Grace; Snakes: An Anthology of Serpent Tales; Beyond Literacy; Women For All Seasons; Fiction and Poetry by Texas Women; The Bicentennial Collection of Texas Short Stories; What You Can Do.
 
As a reporter for The Christian Science Monitor early in her career, Joanne won awards for her nonfiction and has published hundreds of articles in newspapers and magazines. She has taught writing at New York University, City Universityof New York, Occidental College, and the Universityof California at Los Angeles extension. She holds a Master of Arts degree from both Brown Universityand Johns Hopkins University, and graduated cum laude from Principia College.
 
Joanne is a Vice President of PEN International and the former International Secretary of PEN International and former Chair of PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee. She currently serves on the boards of PEN American Center, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, Poets and Writers, the International Center for Journalists, the International Crisis Group, and Refugees International. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Johns Hopkins University, trustee emeritus of Brown University, and director emeritus of Human Rights Watch. She has served on the Board of Trustees of Save the Children and on Save the Children’s Advisory Board on Global Education.
 
A member of the Advisory Board of the United States Institute of Peace, Joanne was an adviser on the PBS documentary A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, PEN American Center, PEN USA, English PEN, and the Authors Guild.
 
Joanne is married and has two sons.
 

What People are Saying About This

R.V. Cassill

" . . . the stories are linked with a single thread of compassionate understanding, and irreducible and unforgettable concern for blocked desire and often thwarted destiny."--(R.V. Cassill, author.)

John A. Williams

"The stories remind me both of I.B. Singer and Flannery O'Connor-compelling, I would say."--(John A. Williams)

Editorial Reviews

Her dialogue is sharp and accurate, drawing the reader close to the conflicts that produce full-bodied characters deserving of the rich emotional impact they evoke . . . the writer’s strengths—honesty, compassion and the ability to present such memorable scenes.” —Jill McCorkle, The New York Times Book Review
 
“A valuable philosophical or political acquisition as well as a literary one . . . should be sought out and read.” —Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times
 
“The stories remind me of both I. B. Singer and Flannery O’Conner . . . A fine collection here, a cool view of the universe we inhabit. . . . Compelling.” —John A. Williams, The Man Who Cried I Am
 
“Readers casually picking up . . . No Marble Angels might think they have stumbled into Anne Tyler’s world . . . gems of clean, direct narrative.” —Baltimore Sun
 
“With wonderfully wry humor, Leedom-Ackerman depicts the kind of good will that ends up causing trouble for others . . . a refined sense of craft is evident in all the stories.” —Library Journal
 
“The author uncovers the vitality that imparts a glow to the most humdrum of lives … written with honesty and care and some, indeed, with passion.” —Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

Her dialogue is sharp and accurate, drawing the reader close to the conflicts that produce full-bodied characters deserving of the rich emotional impact they evoke . . . the writer's strengths----honesty, compassion and the ability to present such memorable scenes . . .
—Jill McCorkle

The New York Times

"A valuable philosophical or political acquisition as well as a literary one . . . NO MARBLE ANGELS questions the efficacy of any individual good deeds in a world already impossibly mired in corruption, ignorance, evil and hatred, and yet insists that for our own personal salvation these good deeds must be at least attempted . . . These are early thoughts of a serious and promising writer, and should be sought out and read."
—Carolyn See

The Los Angeles Times

Readers casually picking up Joanne Leedom-Ackerman's NO MARBLE ANGELS might think they have stumbled into Anne Tyler's world . . . Shannon and other characters are clearly drawn, the dialogue rings true, the images are sharp . . . small gems of clean direct narrative . . .

The Baltimore Sun