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Ferrell, Anderson Have You Heard
New York Bloomsbury USA 3-Apr-04 1582341893 / 9781582341897 Hardcover
Jerry Chiffon, protagonist of this funny, poignant tragicomedy, is something of a gay prodigy. Born to poor tobacco farmers, Jerry is blessed from the cradle with a penchant for child care and housewifery and a preternatural decorating sense. After his mother dies giving birth to his huge-headed younger brother, Jerry mothers him and cares for his father as good as an unmarried sister would have. The ladies of Branch Creek, N.C., take this kindred spirit under their wing and, thumbing their noses at gender stereotypes, further feminize him with lessons in etiquette and hostessing. The grown-up Jerry sojourns in Greenwich Village of the late '70s and early '80s, getting his fill of out gay life and ministering to the beginning AIDS epidemic. Finally, he returns to serve as Branch Creek's paragon of taste and, decked out in a woman's pants suit and fake Chanel purse, mount an assassination attempt against a homophobic senator. Ferrell (Where She Was; Home for the Day) chronicles Jerry's rise from redneckery to refinement as a study in contrasts, offering up excruciating childbirths, bloody auto accidents and baroque gay debaucheries alongside rapt meditations on the niceties of form and propriety. His lucid prose vividly delineates a rich array of characters and voices (Jerry's story is told by three different narrators, each with a unique take on it), from politely catty Southern matrons and dissolute trust-fund rouĂ©s to racist good-ol'-boys. The result is something of a Queer Eye for the Old South, but one that finds a surprising moral gravity in the subtleties of floral arrangements and table settings. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. In the tradition of the great Southern storytellers, Have You Heard explores a small town torn apart by scandal. Author of two critically acclaimed novels, Anderson Ferrell is back with this sprawling, atmospheric tale of the American South. The attempted murder of a right-wing North Carolina senator throws a sudden media spotlight onto the alleged would-be assassin - Jerry Chiffon, who just happened to be sporting a red ladies' suit, a wig, and a fake Chanel purse at the time - and onto Jerry's tiny hometown of Branch Creek, N.C. As three separate narrators relate slightly differing versions of the story, the pieces start to come together. What really happened? How could a beloved, albeit slightly odd, boy come to such an end? Darkly funny and full of heart, Have You Heard reveals a world that, despite all its particularities, feels like home.
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Anderson, Lorraine Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature
New York Vintage 9-Apr-91 679733825 N Paperback
Amazon.com&newline;Women have been writing, and writing very well, about nature for hundreds of years, but, as in so many other fields, their contributions were overlooked and undervalued until recently. Lorraine Anderson's anthology Sisters of the Earth is just the remedy. In it, Anderson gathers writing on nature from a range of authors, among them the relatively familiar Sally Carrighar, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Ann Zwinger, Rachel Carson, and Ursula Le Guin and younger contemporaries like Pat Mora, Terry Tempest Williams, Luci Tapahonso, and Joy Harjo. Anderson showcases essays, fiction, and poetry in roughly equal measure, and her intelligent notes and introduction add much to this generous--and long overdue, and most welcome--collection. &newline;&newline;From Publishers Weekly&newline;The voices of nearly 100 women--white, black, Native American--sing out in this luminous anthology, which spans centuries, genres and literary careers from Willa Cather's to Sue Hubbell's. The thread that binds together the poetry, short stories and essays collected here is the harmonious relationship between women and nature that is about &doublequote;caring rather than controlling,&doublequote; as editor Anderson indicates. In her poem &doublequote;My Help Is in the Mountainsic ,&doublequote; Nancy Wood ( Hollering Sun ) becomes part of the sun-warmed rock that soothes her &doublequote;earthly wounds.&doublequote; In a prose reflection, &doublequote;The Miracle of Renewal,&doublequote; Laura Lee Davidson is rejuvenated by a year spent in the Canadian woods in 1914, which provided her with a &doublequote;gallery of mind-pictures.&doublequote; Both Linda Hogan's essay, &doublequote;Walking,&doublequote; and Elizabeth Coatsworth's poem, &doublequote;On the Hills,&doublequote; seek and find continuity in nature, as well as a kinship with the other times and places that is evoked by it. Taste and sensitivity are evident throughout the volume, whether tacit as nocturnal solitude or vocal as a feline &doublequote;howl . . . for the flame of yellow moons&doublequote; in Judith Minty's poem, &doublequote;Why Do You Keep Those Cats?&doublequote; Anderson is a freelance writer and editor. QPB selection. &newline;Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Anderson, Walter The Confidence Course: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment
New York HarperCollins Publishers Feb-97 60187298 N Hardcover
Amazon.com&newline;Walter Anderson is the editor of Parade, the magazine insert that appears in many U.S. Sunday newspapers; Parade's optimistic, all-American style is echoed in The Confidence Course. In addition to becoming more confident, Anderson wants to teach you how to win friends, influence people, and become an overall better person. His advice is deceptively simple: take responsibility for your behavior, do things rather than &doublequote;try&doublequote; to do them, act in spite of your fear, and practice tolerance of others. Anderson's confidence is catching; when he discusses how to speak in public both courageously and entertainingly, you might just forget your fears and go out and rent a lecture hall. &newline;&newline;From Booklist&newline;Anderson, the editor of Parade since 1980, is also an appointee to the National Commission of Libraries and Information Services and a board member for the Literacy Volunteers of America and the National Center for Family Literacy, generous activities that reflect one of his seven steps to self-fulfillment: &doublequote;Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive.&doublequote; Simple on the surface, profoundly resonant upon reflection, this statement exemplifies Anderson's positive, no-nonsense new book, his third, the fruit of a course on self-confidence he created and taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City. The class was a resounding success, an indication that lack of confidence is endemic and that Anderson's pragmatic program, rooted in the teachings of his friend, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, works. Anderson is blunt and to the point. &doublequote;No, life is not fair,&doublequote; he declares. He, too, has struggled all his life against &doublequote;the most painful feelings of inferiority,&doublequote; until he discovered that adversity can become inspiration, fear can be transformed into courage, and dreams can be realized. Wasting no time on psychobabble, Anderson offers concrete suggestions for how to learn from your mistakes, how to hold people's attention and earn respect, how to define success in a meaningful way, and how to live a full and fulfilling life. A tall order? Absolutely, but Anderson is so specific and experienced, so focused on strengths instead of weaknesses, he generates a palpable aura of reasonableness, and readers can't help but feel hopeful. Donna Seaman
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Anderson, Walter The Greatest Risk of All
Boston Houghton Mifflin Sep-88 395465168 N Hardcover
From Publishers Weekly&newline;The greatest risk of all, according to Anderson, the editor of Parade magazine, in his readable and inspirational volume, is never to take any risks. To succeed, he says, we must take intelligent chances. Bolstered by interviews with people who have been successful in their lives, he proposes some guidelines. First, we must define our goal clearly, and then consider potential lossesloss of comfort, the sacrifices required to move ahead and what will be lost if the risk does not work out. Next we must identify who we ourselves are and the purpose of the risk (for example, if the motive is anger or jealousy, it's a bad move). We must consider timing and then act. Among the celebrities who tell of risks they have taken are Carol Burnett, Gloria Steinem, Norman Vincent Peale, Elie Weisel and Joyce Brothers. This should prove a popular self-help book. First serial to Good Housekeeping; author tour. &newline;Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Anderson, Jean The Nutrition Bible: The Comprehensive, No-Nonsense Guide to Foods, Nutrients, Additives, Preservatives, Pollutants, and Everything Else We Eat and
New York William Morrow & Co Oct-95 688116191 N Hardcover
From Publishers Weekly&newline;Food writer Anderson (The Food of Portugal) and University of Pittsburgh nutritionist Deskins team up to produce an alphabetical encyclopedia that tells, with professionalism and panache, a little bit about a lot of things, including food-related disorders, cooking techniques, diets, brand names and food-labeling terminology. The briefest entries (e.g., Calorie, Ileitis, Xanthan Gum) offer clear, jargon-free definitions. Others may also contain a bit of folklore or colorful history, perhaps a cooking tip, sometimes a warning. Major topics such as Bacteria, Fast Food, Fat, Heart Health and Sugars get the most complete coverage and contain cross references to other entries. Scattered throughout are dozens of low-fat, low-cholesterol, fairly simple recipes (all with nutritional analyses) such as that for Almost Fat-Free Chocolate-Beet Bundt Cake, included with the Beets entry. This comprehensive work has something to offer both the serious researcher and the casual browser. &newline;Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. &newline;&newline;From Library Journal&newline;It can be dangerous to call your book a bible; the term implies a comprehensiveness and authority that may best be conferred by others. Compiled by Anderson, who holds a B.S. in food and nutrition and is the author of numerous cookbooks, and Deskins, an associate professor of clinical dietetics and nutrition (Univ. of Pittsburgh), this reference has much to recommend it, although it has shortcomings as well. First the good news: there are entries here-bee pollen, bovine somatropin, free-range poultry, and many others-not found in similar encyclopedias. Some entries, such as the one for &doublequote;Bacon,&doublequote; are also more complete than in other references. A nice feature is the inclusion of numerous reduced fat and sugar recipes for standard menu items, such as meatloaf and milk shakes, and for less standard ones as well. Nutrient contents are given for all foods and recipes. Next the bad news: there are some glaring omissions (no entries for cooking spray or melatonin, for example), a bias in some of the entries, and missing cross references. For example, the entry for &doublequote;Free-Range Poultry and Other Animals&doublequote; has no cross references from the entries for poultry or other farm-raised food animals. While the definition of &doublequote;free-range&doublequote; is adequate, the text implies that superior flavor is the only reason for purchasing free-range meat, when concern for the humane treatment of food animals is a primary consideration for many consumers. No mention is made of free-range eggs, and the entry ends with a sneer at &doublequote;health food stores and boutique butchers.&doublequote; Ultimately, this book is not a &doublequote;bible&doublequote; that can stand alone. It is a useful complement to Audrey H. Ensminger's Foods and Nutrition Encyclopedia (CRC Pr., 1994. 2d ed.), which contains much longer essays under some entries but which also contains some bias.&newline;Carol Cubberley, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg&newline;Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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