Background
Agee was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and grew up in Nebraska and Missouri.
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South of Resurrection
(At the age of sixteen, Moline Bedwell fled her hometown o...)
At the age of sixteen, Moline Bedwell fled her hometown of Resurrection, Missouri, and never looked back. Now, twenty years later, she's intent on returning to Resurrection to take care of some family business. But what started out as a short visit turns increasingly complex as Moline confronts the ghosts of her past and contends with the impact of the present on her dying hometown: she struggles to save her family's pig farm from the greedy clutches of an agriculture conglomerate, and she resumes her passionate affair with Dayrell Bell, the wild hillbilly boy she abandoned all those years ago. Jonis Agee takes us into the hearts and minds of a community on the verge of extinction and introduces us to characters so vivid and memorable that we feel as if we've known them all our lives. In South of Resurrection, Agee's intensely beautiful writing proves yet again why The New York Times calls her a "gifted poet of that dark lushness in the heart of the American landscape."
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The River Wife: A Novel
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The River Wife: A Novel
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From acclaimed novelist Jonis Agee, whom The New York Times Book Review called “a gifted poet of that dark lushness in the heart of the American landscape,” The River Wife is a sweeping, panoramic story that ranges from the New Madrid earthquake of 1811 through the Civil War to the bootlegging days of the 1930s. When the earthquake brings Annie Lark’s Missouri house down on top of her, she finds herself pinned under the massive roof beam, facing certain death. Rescued by French fur trapper Jacques Ducharme, Annie learns to love the strong, brooding man and resolves to live out her days as his “River Wife.” More than a century later, in 1930, Hedie Rails comes to Jacques’ Landing to marry Clement Ducharme, a direct descendant of the fur trapper and river pirate, and the young couple begin their life together in the very house Jacques built for Annie so long ago. When, night after late night, mysterious phone calls take Clement from their home, a pregnant Hedie finds comfort in Annie’s leather-bound journals. But as she reads of the sinister dealings and horrendous misunderstandings that spelled out tragedy for the rescued bride, Hedie fears that her own life is paralleling Annie’s, and that history is repeating itself with Jacques’ kin. Among the family’s papers, Hedie encounters three other strong-willed women who helped shape Jacques Ducharme’s life–Omah, the freed slave who took her place beside him as a river raider; his second wife, Laura, who loved money more than the man she married; and Laura and Jacques’ daughter, Maddie, a fiery beauty with a nearly uncontrollable appetite for love. Their stories, together with Annie’s, weave a haunting tale of this mysterious, seductive, and ultimately dangerous man, a man whose hand stretched over generations of women at a bend in the river where fate and desire collide. The River Wife richly evokes the nineteenth-century South at a time when lives changed with the turn of a card or the flash of a knife. Jonis Agee vividly portrays a lineage of love and heartbreak, passion and deceit, as each river wife comes to discover that blind devotion cannot keep the truth at bay, nor the past from haunting the present. From the Hardcover edition.
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Sweet Eyes
( Sweet Eyes is the wondrous story of the young woman Hon...)
Sweet Eyes is the wondrous story of the young woman Honey Parrish, who becomes involved in an interracial love affair and struggles to solve longstanding mysteries in her hometown and to move beyond her family’s troubled past.
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The Weight of Dreams Hardcover June 28, 1999
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Jonis Agee
Edit ProfileEducation
She earned her Bachelor from The University of Iowa, and her Master of Arts and Philosophy Doctor from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Career
She is the author of thirteen books, including five novels and five collections of short fiction. Three of her books have been New York Times Notable Books. Agee taught at The College of Saint Catherine and the University of Michigan.
She is the Adele Hall Professor of English at The University of Nebraska — Lincoln, where she teaches creative writing and twentieth-century fiction.
Jonis Agee has written thirteen books Her most recent book, The River Wife (Random House, 2007), is about five generations of women during nineteenth-century South.
The book was selected by the Book of the Month Club, the Literary Guild, and as a main selection by the Quality Paperback Book Club. In the past, Strange Angel, Bend This Heart, and Sweet Eyes were all named a Notable Book by The New York Times Book Review.
Pretend We"ve Never Met (1989) Bend This Heart (1989) A.38 Special and a Broken Heart (1995) Taking the Wall (1999) Acts of Love on Indigo Road (2003) Full Throttle (2007) Stiller"s Pond (1996).
Achievements
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Minnesota State Arts Board Award in Fiction, 1977 National Endowment for the Arts grant in fiction, 1978 Bush Grant for Faculty Development in Creative Writing, 1983 Loft-McKnight Award in Fiction, 1989 Notable Book of the Year for Bend This Heart, New York Times, 1989 Loft-McKnight Award of Distinction, 1991 Notable Book of the Year for Sweet Eyes, New York Times, 1991 Notable Book of the Year for Strange Angels, New York Times, 1993 ForeWord Magazine"s Editor"s Choice Award for Taking the Wall, 2000 Nebraska Book Award for The Weight of Dreams, 2000 Nebraska Book Award Acts of Love on Indigo Road, 2004 ForeWord Magazine"s Gold Medal in Fiction for Acts of Love on Indigo Road, 2004 John Gardner Fiction Award for The River Wife, Binghamton University, 2008 Distinguished Artist Award in Fiction, Nebraska Arts Council, 2009 Backwaters Press Publication Award, Nebraska Arts Council, 2009 Mark Twain Award for Distinguished Contribution to Midwestern Literature, The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, 2009 George Garrett Award, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, 2010 Outstanding Research and Creativity Award (ORCA), University of Nebraska, 2010.
Works
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The River Wife: A Novel
(From acclaimed novelist Jonis Agee, whom The New York Tim...)
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Sweet Eyes
( Sweet Eyes is the wondrous story of the young woman Hon...)
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South of Resurrection
(At the age of sixteen, Moline Bedwell fled her hometown o...)
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The Weight of Dreams Hardcover June 28, 1999
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
- The River Wife: A Novel
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The River Wife: A Novel
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Nationality
United States
Awards
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Backwaters Press; Nebraska Book Award Acts Minnesota State Arts Board Award in Fiction, 1977 National Endowment for the Arts grant in fiction, 1978 Bush Grant for Faculty Development in Creative Writing, 1983 Loft-McKnight Award in Fiction, 1989 Notable Book of the Year for Bend This Heart, New York Times, 1989 Loft-McKnight Award of Distinction, 1991 Notable Book of the Year for Sweet Eyes, New York Times, 1991 Notable Book of the Year for Strange Angels, New York Times, 1993 ForeWord Magazine's Editor's Choice Award for Taking the Wall, 2000 Nebraska Book Award for The Weight of Dreams, 2000 Nebraska Book Award Acts of Love on Indigo Road, 2004 ForeWord Magazine's Gold Medal in Fiction for Acts of Love on Indigo Road, 2004 John Gardner Fiction Award for The River Wife, Binghamton University, 2008 Distinguished Artist Award in Fiction, Nebraska Arts Council, 2009 Backwaters Press Publication Award, Nebraska Arts Council, 2009 Mark Twain Award for Distinguished Contribution to Midwestern Literature, The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, 2009 George Garrett Award, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, 2010 Outstanding Research and Creativity Award (ORCA), University of Nebraska, 2010Backwaters Press; Nebraska Book Award Acts Minnesota State Arts Board Award in Fiction, 1977 National Endowment for the Arts grant in fiction, 1978 Bush Grant for Faculty Development in Creative Writing, 1983 Loft-McKnight Award in Fiction, 1989 Notable Book of the Year for Bend This Heart, New York Times, 1989 Loft-McKnight Award of Distinction, 1991 Notable Book of the Year for Sweet Eyes, New York Times, 1991 Notable Book of the Year for Strange Angels, New York Times, 1993 ForeWord Magazine's Editor's Choice Award for Taking the Wall, 2000 Nebraska Book Award for The Weight of Dreams, 2000 Nebraska Book Award Acts of Love on Indigo Road, 2004 ForeWord Magazine's Gold Medal in Fiction for Acts of Love on Indigo Road, 2004 John Gardner Fiction Award for The River Wife, Binghamton University, 2008 Distinguished Artist Award in Fiction, Nebraska Arts Council, 2009 Backwaters Press Publication Award, Nebraska Arts Council, 2009 Mark Twain Award for Distinguished Contribution to Midwestern Literature, The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, 2009 George Garrett Award, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, 2010 Outstanding Research and Creativity Award (ORCA), University of Nebraska, 2010