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Fire at the Stymie Club-Stories from the Mississippi to Chesapeake Country

BuchKartoniert, Paperback
466 Seiten
Englisch
New Bay Books LLCerschienen am20.06.2023
Fire at the Stymie Club is a retrospective collection of storiesset mainly in St. Louis, in Springfield, Illinois and in Maryland,along the Chesapeake Bay's western shore, where author Sandra OlivettiMartin was co-founder and publisher of a widely read newspaper, BayWeekly. The book includes versions of her prize-winning stories forthat paper.. The title of the books stems from Sandra's girlhood, in St. Louis above a restaurant and supper club operatedby her father, a charming bookmaker, and her mother, the glamorousdaughter of Italian immigrants. Her family's Stymie Club offers anenticing setting for the book's first story with its extralegal doingsand the perfumy sensuality of female clientele and waitresses lookingout for precocious little Sandra.The book also includes features andcolumns written for the flourishing sister independent, Illinois Times, Springfield, Illinois, and reflecting the ethos of acapital deeply connected to Abraham Lincoln in an era when women'srights and freedoms took center stage in lawmaking.Journalism continues with memoirs of her life and family into the 19th century.Other memoirs are personal essays of deeper intimacy.mehr

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KlappentextFire at the Stymie Club is a retrospective collection of storiesset mainly in St. Louis, in Springfield, Illinois and in Maryland,along the Chesapeake Bay's western shore, where author Sandra OlivettiMartin was co-founder and publisher of a widely read newspaper, BayWeekly. The book includes versions of her prize-winning stories forthat paper.. The title of the books stems from Sandra's girlhood, in St. Louis above a restaurant and supper club operatedby her father, a charming bookmaker, and her mother, the glamorousdaughter of Italian immigrants. Her family's Stymie Club offers anenticing setting for the book's first story with its extralegal doingsand the perfumy sensuality of female clientele and waitresses lookingout for precocious little Sandra.The book also includes features andcolumns written for the flourishing sister independent, Illinois Times, Springfield, Illinois, and reflecting the ethos of acapital deeply connected to Abraham Lincoln in an era when women'srights and freedoms took center stage in lawmaking.Journalism continues with memoirs of her life and family into the 19th century.Other memoirs are personal essays of deeper intimacy.
Details
ISBN/GTIN979-8-9853477-7-7
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2023
Erscheinungsdatum20.06.2023
Seiten466 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 28 mm
Gewicht751 g
Artikel-Nr.60516616

Autor

Sandra Olivetti Martin is best known as founding editor, publisher andcolumnist at Bay Weekly, which began in Chesapeake country 30years ago as New Bay Times. She is a graduate of St. Joseph's Academy in St. Louis, Missouri, and holds two degrees from St. Louis University.She has taught writing at colleges anduniversities in Illinois, Missouri and Maryland and has written forthe Washington Post, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and magazines. Shenow is publisher at New Bay Books, which produced 15 titles in itsfirst two years. Sandra grew up in St. Louis above the legendaryStymie Club, from which the book's title is derived, and lives nowalong the Chesapeake Bay in southern Maryland.
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