Bøger af Frances McCue

Haunt the halls of a demolished writers' house. Punch through the "timber curtains" that cover clear-cuts, gentrification, and bereavement.

Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page.Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother's absence.The quirky tenantsa hilarious mix of misfits and rabble-rousers from days gone byrely on Alexis all the more when they discover a plot to sell the Hotel. Can Alexis save their home? Find her real father? Deal with her surrogate dad's dicey past? Find true love? Perhaps only their feisty pet crow, Habib, truly knows.Provoking interesting questions about the creative process, this novel is by turns funny, scary, witty, suspenseful, beautiful, thrilling, and unexpected.

Known for both her landscapes and portraits, the author began documenting Northwest figures in 1963 when Theodore Roethke asked her to photograph him in his Seattle home. In addition to Roethke, this title includes portraits of renowned artists Jacob Lawrence, Mark Tobey, and Morris Graves; writers Tom Robbins, Henry Miller; and more.

Part travelogue, part memoir, and part literary scholarship, this title traces the journey of the author to the towns that inspired many of his poems.