Godwin, Gail

Mr. Bedford and the muses by Gail Godwin( Book )
18 editions published between 1983 and 1996 in English and held by 1,421 libraries worldwide
Mr. Bedford -- A father's pleasures -- Amanuensis -- St. John -- The angry-year -- A cultural exchange.

Violet Clay by Gail Godwin( Book )
18 editions published between 1978 and 2005 in English and Swedish and held by 1,209 libraries worldwide
Violet Clay had come to New York City from Charleston to take the art world by storm. But nine years, many affairs, and thousands of drinks later, the reality of her shadow life is made clear when she is fired from her job as a freelance illustrator. That same day, she hears that her beloved Uncle Ambrose, an unsuccessful writer, has shot himself. As Violet collects the shattered pieces of her uncle''s life, she is forced to face herself and her own tattered dreams. And what she discovers is that she has just been going through the motions of living. She''s not even sure she can do anything else. But she''s in her mid-thirties and knows she still has time to try again. If she succeeds, she will have broken from her family of dreamers forever and can deservedly claim both the rich rewards and frustrating adversities of the artist''s life....

Heart : a personal journey through its myths and meanings by Gail Godwin( Book )
3 editions published between 2001 and 2004 in English and held by 1,078 libraries worldwide
"What is heart? It is the muscle of life, sending our most vital fluid coursing through our veins to every hungry part of our being. It is what keeps us striving against impossible odds; that fortifying something that is the cornerstone of every triumph. It elates us when we discover love and pains us greatly when that love is lost or proves unrequited. It is a gentleness that colors what we give to others. It is a symbol that we see on greeting cards: a small, red shape that was drawn on the wall of a cave in Spain more than 12,000 years ago. ..." "In this work, author Gail Godwin takes us on a journey of the heart that spans the entire history of human civilization, combining literature, myth, religion, philosophy, medicine, the fine arts, and intensely personal stories from the writer's own past to explore the full and complex character of that unique symbol. Godwin's explorations and meditations track themes of the heart in life, legend, and art - from the first valentine to the first stethoscope, from Gilgamesh to Confucius, from the heart of darkness to wearing one's heart on one's sleeve."--BOOK JACKET.

Dream children : stories by Gail Godwin( Book )
21 editions published between 1976 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 876 libraries worldwide
Fifteen stories including "Dream Children," "A Sorrowful Woman," and "Death in Puerto Vallarta" provide portraits of people who find happiness in the world of fantasy and imagination.

The making of a writer : journals by Gail Godwin( Book )
13 editions published between 2006 and 2007 in English and held by 800 libraries worldwide
"Gail Godwin was twenty-four years old and working as a waitress in the North Carolina mountains when she wrote: "I want to be everybody who is great; I want to create everything that has ever been created." It is a declaration that only a wildly ambitious young writer would make in the privacy of her journal. In the heady days of her literary apprenticeship, Godwin kept a daily chronicle of her dreams and desires, her travels, love affairs, struggles, and breakthroughs. Now, at the urging of her friend Joyce Carol Oates, Godwin has distilled these early journals, which run from 1961 to 1963, to their brilliant and charming essence." "The Making of a Writer opens during the feverish period following the breakup of Godwin's first marriage and her stint as a reporter for the Miami Herald. Aware that she is entering one of the great turning points of her life as she prepares to move to Europe, Godwin writes of the "one hundred different hungers" that consume her on the eve of departure. A whirlwind trip to New York, the passengers and their stories on board the SS Oklahoma, the shock of her first encounters with Danish customs (and Danish men) - Godwin conveys the excitement of a writer embracing a welter of new experiences." "After a long, dark Scandinavian winter and a gloriously romantic interlude in the Canary Islands, Godwin moves to London and embarks on the passionate engagements that will inspire some of her finest stories. She records the pleasures of soaking in the human drama on long rambles through the London streets - and the torment of lonely Sundays spent wrestling these impressions into prose. She shares her passion for Henry James, Marcel Proust, Lawrence Durrell, Thomas Wolfe - and her terror of facing twenty-six with nothing to show but a rejected novel and a stack of debts. "I do not feel like a failure," Godwin insists as she sits down yet again to the empty page. "I will keep writing, harder than ever.""--BOOK JACKET.

Glass people by Gail Godwin( Book )
13 editions published between 1972 and 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 753 libraries worldwide

The perfectionists by Gail Godwin( Book )
16 editions published between 1970 and 1996 in English and Swedish and held by 661 libraries worldwide
On vacation in Majorca with John, her husband, and Robin, his illegitimate son, Dane begins to see their marriage in a completely new light.

The Best American short stories, 1985( Book )
3 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 451 libraries worldwide

The making of a writer. Volume 2, Journals, 1963-1969 by Gail Godwin( Book )
4 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 290 libraries worldwide
Presents the second volume of journal writings by the three-time National Book Award finalist, discussing how, after establishing her purpose as an author, she published her first stories and novels, with observations about the literary world of the period.

Evenings at five : a novel and five stories by Gail Godwin( Book )
3 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 132 libraries worldwide
Roman og fem noveller.