Maureen Howard
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Braving the mysteries of the heart's desire, Maureen Howard renders the heady madness of a first kiss while plumbing history, art, genetics, and astronomy to explore the inevitable morning-after question: Why do two people fall in love? The exhilarating flights and emotional depth of Howard's storytelling balance the fates of two young lovers in New York: Artie, a bastard, perhaps "begot in the mud of Woodstock", now a boyish computer wizard; and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"In The Silver Screen, Maureen Howard conjures up the last days of silent movies in the story of Isabel Maher, who renounces the glamour of Hollywood and her talent. As Bel Murphy, wife and mother, she is confined to the drama of domestic life in Rhode Island, and plays it like a star." "Bel's children struggle against the lives she has dealt them: Joe, a Jesuit priest, is unsuccessful in love and as a healer of souls; Rita, spinster and physical...
Author
Publisher
Summit Books
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
A woman's rise to fame and fortune from humble beginnings, and the price she pays for both. Recent American social and political history is illuminated in an account of the life of writer Maggie Flood, whose two marriages and career launched her into the rarefied worlds of politics, the arts, and popular culture.
