Searching for the truth behind the myth of her late mother's life--a glamorous actress whose dreams of stardom were cut short by childbirth--Lucy Laura leaves her lover and child for Hollywood, where she meets her father. National ad/promo. Tour.

Plain Seeing: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Scofield, Sandra

United States

Harpercollins

Traveling to the site of his honeymoon after the tragic death of his wife, Tom Riley is befriended by an expatriate American writer who prompts him to change his life, an encounter that brings him face-to-face with an enchanting Mexican family. National ad/promo.

A Chance to See Egypt

On an extended holiday in Mexico to recover from his wife's death, middle-aged Chicago pet-store owner Tom Riley is drawn to the Mexican peasants and becomes involved with Consolata Arispe, a mystically minded widow, and her nineteen-year-old daughter Divina

Perennial

Twenty-five years after the tragic death of her mother, while recovering from her own serious injury, forty-year-old Lucy realizes that to heal both physically and mentally she must uncover the mystery of her mother's life. Reprint.

Plain Seeing

Contemporary

PerfectBound

A treasure-trove of scene-writing wisdom from award-winning author and teacher Sandra Scofield To write a good scene, you have to know the following: • Every scene has an EVENT • Every scene has a FUNCTION in the narrative • Every scene has a STRUCTURE: a beginning, middle, and end • Every scene has a PULSE The Scene Book is a fundamental guide to crafting more effective scenes in fiction. In clear, simple language, Sandra Scofield shows both the beginner and the seasoned writer how to build better scenes, the underpinning of any good narrative.

The Scene Book: A Primer for the Fiction Writer

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin??Books

The definitive handbook for the novelist who is ready to revise This wise and friendly guide shows writers how to turn first-draft manuscripts into the novels of their dreams. A critic, longtime teacher, and award-winning novelist, Sandra Scofield illustrates how to reread a work of fiction with a view of its subject and vision, and how to take it apart and put it back together again, stronger and deeper. Scofield builds her explanations around helpful concepts like narrative structure, character agency, and core scenes, usingmodels from classic and contemporary writers. The detailed, step-by-step plan laid out in The Last Draft offers invaluable advice to both novice and experienced writers alike. In Scofield, they will find a seasoned, encouraging mentor to steer them through this emotional and intellectual journey.

The Last Draft: A Novelist's Guide to Revision

Humor & Entertainment

Penguin Publishing Group

Writing on the brink of old age, novelist Sandra Scofield looks back on her Catholic girlhood and the ways in which her relationship with her mother was grounded in their intertwined aspirations for holiness, achievement and love.

Occasions of Sin: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Scofield, Sandra Jean

Arts & Literature

W.W.Norton&Company

"A beautiful, painful book about religion, family, sex, and loss."―Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club In 1959, when Sandra Scofield was fifteen, she came home to stay in West Texas after years in Catholic boarding schools. She believed her presence would inspire her invalid mother to live. What she found―a fractured family; a distracted, dying mother―nudged her into the tumult of late adolescence and the awakening of her sexuality. More than forty years later, Scofield looks back on her Catholic girlhood and the ways in which her relationship with her mother was grounded in their intertwined aspirations for holiness, achievement, and love. Writing on the brink of old age, she looks back ruefully but without bitterness, forgiving both her mother's frailty and her own.

A 1992 National Book Award finalist and a highly acclaimed novel of family conflict and the redeeming power of love. Scofield tells a complex, moving tale about a colorful, contentious clan living in Southern Oregon who love members of their family "beyond deserving." "An intelligent, wickedly observant novel."--New York Times Book Review. Reading tour.

Beyond Deserving (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)

Literary

Plume

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Walking Dunes (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)

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Plain Seeing: A Novel

A Chance to See Egypt

A Chance to See Egypt

Plain Seeing

The Scene Book: A Primer for the Fiction Writer

The Last Draft: A Novelist's Guide to Revision

Occasions of Sin: A Memoir

Occasions of Sin: A Memoir

Beyond Deserving (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)

Walking Dunes (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)