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Brown, Rebecca was born on March 27, 1956 in San Diego, California, United States. Daughter of Vergil Neal Brown Junior and Barbara Ann Brown.
( The End of Youth is a collection of 13 linked stories, ...)
The End of Youth is a collection of 13 linked stories, essays and rants, about carrying on after youth’s hope is gone. In "Afraid of the Dark," a child learns that there is good reason to be afraid. The adolescent narrator of "Description of a Struggle" finds that love can be brutal. "The Smokers" -examines an adult’s realization that longevity means seeing loved ones die. Written with the same spare and vivid beauty as her earlier award-winning works, The End of Youth is certain to win even wider acclaim. Rebecca Brown is the author of The Terrible Girls, Annie Oakley’s Girl, The Gifts of the Body and The Dogs. She lives in Seattle.
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(An emotionally wrenching work of fiction about a health-c...)
An emotionally wrenching work of fiction about a health-care worker who tenders compassion and love to victims of AIDS, by an author who "strips her language of convention to lay bare the ferocious rituals of love and need."--New York Times Book Review
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( Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary is an intimat...)
Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary is an intimate, exquisite, and true account of what it is to help a parent die. After her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, former home care worker and award-winning writer Rebecca Brown cared for her mother during the last six months of her life. This spare, unsentimental book comes out of that experience. In short chapters headed by definitions of medical terms, she confronts anemia, chemotherapy, metastasis, cremation. Brown’s is a poignant and unflinching story of how one family coped with loss and learned about the longevity of love. The Wisconsin edition is for sale only in North America.
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( In The Last Time I Saw You, author Rebecca Brown return...)
In The Last Time I Saw You, author Rebecca Brown returns to the obsessive, darkly humorous voice that has earned her comparisons to Samuel Beckett and Djuna Barnes. Some of the tales in this collection are told in the scrappy, breathless voice of a naïf on the verge of a terrible revelation. Others are noir-baroque monologues that collapse in on themselves as a speaker at last abandons a much-needed delusion. Intense, artfully crafted, and oddly comic, the stories in this collection are bound to stay with you like an insistent, disturbing dream. Rebecca Brown is the winner of the 2003 Washington State Book Award. Her books include The Gifts of the Body, Excerpts From a Family Medical Dictionary, The Terrible Girls, and The End of Youth.
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Brown, Rebecca was born on March 27, 1956 in San Diego, California, United States. Daughter of Vergil Neal Brown Junior and Barbara Ann Brown.
Bachelor, George Washington University, 1978. Master of Fine Arts, University Virginia, 1981.
Teacher Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, 1997—1998. Writer-in-residence Hugo House, Seattle, 1997—1999. Teacher Master of Fine Arts program Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont, since 1999.
Creative director literature Centrum.
(An emotionally wrenching work of fiction about a health-c...)
( In The Last Time I Saw You, author Rebecca Brown return...)
( Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary is an intimat...)
( The End of Youth is a collection of 13 linked stories, ...)
(Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary Brown, Rebecca ...)
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Member of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association West, Phi Beta Kappa.
Life partner Christine Galloway.