Crackpots by Sara Pritchard

Crackpots by Sara Pritchard

When we first meet Ruby Reese she's a spunky kid in a cowgirl hat, tap dancing her way through a slightly off-kilter 1950s childhood. With an insomniac mother and a demolitions-expert father, her entire family is what the residents of her small town would call "a bunch of crackpots." Despite the dramas of her upbringing, Ruby matures into a creative, introspective, and wholly beguiling woman. But her adulthood is marked by complex relationships and romantic missteps -- three unsuitable marriages, dramatic crushes, the complicated love between siblings. As Sara Pritchard deftly guides us through Ruby's story, from the present to the past and back again, a portrait of a remarkably resilient woman emerges. Suffused with humor and melancholy, imagination and insight, Crackpots heralds the debut of a skilled and sensitive storyteller.

Sara Pritchard is the author of the novel-in-stories, Crackpots (2003), and the linked-story collection, Lately. Her new collection of stories, Help Wanted: Female will be published by Etruscan Press in 2012. Sara won the Bakeless Prize for Fiction in 2003 with Crackpots, which went on to become a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She has been the recipient of other literary awards, including twice receiving a West Virginia Individual Artist's Literary Fellowship and in 2010, a Pushcart Prize for her story Two Studies in Entropy, which was originally published in New Letters, and is a part of Help Wanted: Female.

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ISBN 13	9780618302451
ISBN 10	061830245X
Title	Crackpots
Author	Sara Pritchard
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Mariner Books
Year published	2003-08-17
Number of pages	208
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