| My Brother Michael Contributor(s): Owens, Janis (Author) |
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ISBN: 1561643432 ISBN-13: 9781561643431 Publisher: Pineapple Press OUR PRICE: $12.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2005 Annotation: Winner of the Chatauqua South Award for Fiction Now in paperback ? Includes a Reader's Guide ?Owens? fine writing and the ring of her natural voice will carry readers along like a tale told on a porch on a sultry Southern night.? ? Publishers Weekly Out of the shotgun houses and deep, shaded porches of a West Florida mill town comes this extraordinary novel of love and redemption. Gabriel Catts recounts his lifelong love for his brother's wife, Myra ? whose own demons threaten to overwhelm all three of them. The story told in My Brother Michael is retold in Myra Sims, Janis Owens? second novel, from Myra's point of view. See page 45. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2005016658 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6.08" W x 8.96" (1.03 lbs) 306 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Florida - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Topical - Family - Sex & Gender - Masculine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the Chatauqua South Award for Fiction Out of the shotgun houses and deep, shaded porches of a west Florida mill town comes this extraordinary novel of love and redemption as told by Gabriel Catts. On the eve of his fortieth birthday, Gabe attempts to reconcile a family shattered by his betrayal of his older brother, Michael. As Gabe contends with a host of personal demons, he recounts his lifelong love for his brother's wife, Myra, whose own demons threaten to overwhelm all three of them. Circumstance and passion push them beyond the moral boundaries of their close-knit community in this intimate view of a Southern family. The story told in My Brother Michael is retold in Myra Sims, Janis Owens second novel, from Myras point of view |
Contributor Bio(s): Owens, Janis: - Janis Owens was born in Marianna, a small town in the Florida Panhandle. Her father was a preacher and insurance salesman who moved his family to Mississippi and Louisiana before settling back in north Florida. She earned a degree in English and Southern History from the University of Florida. She is also the author of Myra Sims, the companion to My Brother Michael. |