Morton, Brian
Summary: "Acclaimed novelist Brian Morton delivers a moving, darkly funny memoir of his mother's vibrant life and the many ways in which their tight but turbulent relationship was refashioned in her twilight years. Tasha Morton is a force of nature: a brilliant educator who's left her mark on generations of students -- and also a whirlwind of a mother: intrusive, chaotic, oppressively devoted and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORTON, BRIAN MORMorton, Brian
Summary: Nora, a writer in search of inspiration, phones her ex-lover Isaac, a photographer who is about to turn in his camera, re-igniting their romance and re-invigorating their creativity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORMorton, Brian
Summary: A failed old writer is visited by a pretty young student who wants to make him the subject of her thesis. The woman's adulation--she tells him his books changed her life--goes to the writer's head and he falls in love. Observing this with a jaundiced eye is his daughter, herself a struggling writer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORMorton, Brian
Summary: "A wise and entertaining novel about a woman who has lived life on her own terms for seventy-five defiant and determined years, only to find herself suddenly thrust to the center of her family's various catastrophes Meet Florence Gordon: blunt, brilliant, cantankerous and passionate, feminist icon to young women, invisible and underappreciated by most everyone else. At seventy-five, Florence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORSummary: Battling illness and unable to finish a novel that has taken him ten years to write, aging novelist Leonard Schiller is slipping into literary obscurity. At one time a famous author, Schiller has been all but forgotten by the readers, colleagues and critics who once praised his works. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious graduate student, convinces Schiller that her thesis could reintroduce his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STASummary: Return to ground zero in the fight against Chicago crime in all 23 episodes of this critically acclaimed drama. In Season Three, Hank Voight's intelligence unit is in the final stretch of taking down a powerful kingpin when one of his detectives is severely beaten and kidnapped. In a race against time, Voight makes the difficult decision to bring back one of the disgraced former members of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016