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Get in Touch | Jenny McPhee
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Contact me via email: jenny.mcphee@hotmail.com. For enquiries about rights and permissions regarding my books please contact my agent Kim Witherspoon at:. 521 Fifth Avenue, 26th Floor. New York, NY 10175. Telephone – 212.922.3500. Facsimile – 212.922.0535. Jenny McPhee is the author of the novels. A Man of No Moon, No Ordinary Matter. The Center of Things. She is the coauthor with her sisters Martha and Laura of. Girls: Ordinary Girls and Their Extraordinary Pursuits. Crossing the Threshold of Hope.
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Blog | Jenny McPhee
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October 22, 2016 · 7:00 pm. October 3, 2016 · 1:57 pm. She says: He put the dog down. She says: I want a chocolate milkshake. She adds: And fries. She says: He said she had a good life, finally. She says: He said everyone loved her in the end. She says: I bought a new face cream called vital glow. She says: Try some. She says: Humility refused to make pancakes for me. She inisits: Humble won’t make me a proper breakfast. She whispers: What am I doing here? She says: He said it was time for her to go.
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Novels | Jenny McPhee
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This is Jenny McPhee at her finest. Whether she is sketching the war-bruised Italian psyche as it brushes up against the puffed-up American dream of heroism, fantastically detailing the styles and locales of the late 1940s, or creating a sexual situation with spark, smoke, and fire, she is masterful in her prose, and her storytelling mesmerizes on every page. A MAN OF NO MOON. A Book Sense Notable Book. New York Times Book Review. 8220;McPhee’s novel is introspective, atmospheric…and achingly...Veronica,...
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Articles | Jenny McPhee
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A Mother’s Name. When I was 5 month’s pregnant with my son, I went to a dinner party in Florence, where my husband, Luca Passaleva, is from. The conversation briefly left politics when someone suggested that I name my son Silvio, after Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister at the time.”No,” a friend said, “Silvio Passaleva sounds terrible.”. 8220;Actually,” Luca responded, “his last name will be McPhee.”. Click here for full article. The Perversity of Everyday Life. Underground River and Other Stories.
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Boudoir | Jenny McPhee
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8220;The aphorism is a brief waste of time. The poem is a complete waste of time. The novel is a monumental waste of time.”. 8220;Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it.”. Joy’s a subtle elf: I think man’s happiest when he forgets himself. No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place. There is no rest, really there is no rest, there is just a joyous torment all your life of doing the wrong thing. I read poetry to save time. 8220;The artistic li...
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Translations | Jenny McPhee
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Natalia Ginzburg, one of Italy’s great writers, introduced. Published by New York Review Books Classics, 2015. A Flaw of Form. Two books of short stories by Primo Levi for W.W. Norton to be published in 2015. ZIBALDONE: The Notebooks of Leopardi. Published in 2013 in the US by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and in the UK by Penguin. An extraordinary, epochal, publication-one of the foundational books of modern Western culture, at last fully translated into English. PRAISE FOR THE ZIBALDONE:. 8211; Saul Bellow.
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Who I Am | Jenny McPhee
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My parents got divorced and my father moved to a pad in town with a view of Firestone Library where he hung the curious duo on the wall above his typewriter. The Five Sisters of Kintail, Scotland. I have four sisters. For better or for worse, I do not know where they begin and I end especially from my position so squarely in the middle. Without them, beginning, middle, and end would be entirely meaningless to me. The setting and her body position were nearly identical to the monkey’s, her expression as d...
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Bazaar | Jenny McPhee
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A Man of No Moon. The Center of Things. Jenny McPhee, Martha McPhee, and Laura McPhee. Girls: Ordinary Girls and Their Extraordinary Pursuits. The familiar idea that strong female role models create strong women is given fresh treatment in the essays and photographs featured in. City Secrets Books: The Essential Insider’s Guide. Includes my entry on. Gogol’s Wife and Other Stories. Includes my essay “Lisbeth Salander, The Millenium Trilogy, and My Mother.”. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. Beth and...
