Thisbe Nissen. Thisbe Nissen is the author of a story collection, Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night, and two novels, The Good People of New York and Osprey Island. Her fiction has been published in the Iowa Review and the American Scholar, among others, and her nonfiction has appeared in Vogue, Glamour, and elsewhere. She teaches at Western Michigan University and lives in Battle Creek, . Set in the seething political climate of a contentious election, Thisbe Nissen's new novel is sexy, smart, and razor-sharp — a freight train barreling through the heart of the land and the land of the heart. ". Our Lady of the Prairie. delivers this wonderful author's characteristic wit, layered with delicious dysfunction, poignancy, and heart. · Written with a keen wit and clever turn of phrase, Thisbe Nissen’s Our Lady of the Prairie looks at what happens when a 50 year old woman with a life that looks like it will finally be stable after years of upheaval with a very challenged daughter discovers the “love of her life” and jumps into an affair with all the enthusiasm of a teenager who has just discovered sex.3/5.
Our Lady of the Prairie delivers this wonderful author's characteristic wit, layered with delicious dysfunction, - poignancy, and heart." - Elinor Lipman, author of On Turpentine Lane "Our Lady of the Prairie is a tumultuous romp, both cautionary and liberating. A mystery winds its way through these pages, as Thisbe Nissen explores marriage. About Thisbe Nissen. Thisbe Nissen is the author of three novels, Our Lady of the Prairie (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ), Osprey Island (Knopf, ), The Good People of New York (Knopf, ), and a story collection, Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night (University of Iowa Press, , winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award). Nissen, Thisbe. Our Lady of the Prairie. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade Reference Publishers, Print. Recommended Citation. Nissen, Thisbe, "Our Lady of the Prairie" (). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. www.doorway.ru
OUR LADY OF THE PRAIRIE. MORE BY THISBE NISSEN. Fiction. OSPREY ISLAND. our editors select the one author and one book they believe to be most worthy of your. Thisbe Nissen. Thisbe Nissen is the author of a story collection, Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night, and two novels, The Good People of New York and Osprey Island. Her fiction has been published in the Iowa Review and the American Scholar, among others, and her nonfiction has appeared in Vogue, Glamour, and elsewhere. She teaches at Western Michigan University and lives in Battle Creek, Michigan with her husband, writer Jay Baron Nicorvo, and their son. Naturally, she does what any newly liberated woman would do: she takes a match to her life on the prairie and then steps back to survey the wreckage. Set in the seething political climate of a contentious election,Thisbe Nissen's new novel is sexy, smart, and razor-sharp—a freight train barreling through the heart of the land and the land of the heart.
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