Lott, Bret

Jewel : a novel by Bret Lott( Book )
42 editions published between 1991 and 2004 in 6 languages and held by 2,983 libraries worldwide
In the backwoods of Mississippi, Jewel, her husband Leston, and their five children learn to cope with their last-born child, Brenda Kay, born mentally retarded in 1943.

A song I knew by heart : a novel by Bret Lott( Book )
14 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in English and held by 1,572 libraries worldwide
Living with her son, Mahlon, and daughter-in-law, Ruth, since the death of her husband, Naomi faces a new tragedy when Mahlon is killed in an accident, sending Naomi and Ruth on a painful journey of reconciliation and forgiveness.

The hunt club : a novel by Bret Lott( Book )
10 editions published between 1998 and 2006 in English and German and held by 1,185 libraries worldwide
A doctor's body is found on a hunting estate in South Carolina, his head missing, his hands skinned. So begins a conspiracy to dispossess a blind estate owner who refuses to sell. The story is narrated by the blind man's teenage nephew who serves as his guide. By the author of Reed's Beach.

Ancient highway : a novel by Bret Lott( Book )
5 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 1,151 libraries worldwide
A haunting novel about a family whose lives are shaded by a dream of stardom.

Reed's Beach by Bret Lott( Book )
8 editions published between 1991 and 1999 in English and held by 784 libraries worldwide
Two parents struggle to come to terms with the daeth of their only child.

The man who owned Vermont : a novel by Bret Lott( Book )
6 editions published between 1987 and 1988 in English and held by 744 libraries worldwide
"When Rick Wheeler's wife walks out on him, he nearly drowns in despair. So the RC Cola salesman throws himself into work--setting sales records, winning a promotion, burying himself in the lonely present while he scours the past for hope. Then at last on a cold Vermont morning, a hunter and his prey show him unexpectedly, haltingly, the way back to love and faith."--Cover of paperback edition.

An introduction to Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston by Dan Stone( Sound Recording )
1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 738 libraries worldwide
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God, a novel about an independent and articulate black woman named Janie Crawford who sets out to be her own person in the 1930s.

A stranger's house : a novel by Bret Lott( Book )
4 editions published between 1988 and 1990 in English and held by 694 libraries worldwide
Psykologisk roman om et ægtepar som ikke kan få børn og som alligevel forsøger at leve en meningsfyldt tilværelse.

An Introduction to Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson by Dan Stone( Sound Recording )
1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 615 libraries worldwide
Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping (1980) tells the story of Ruthie, a quiet, friendless girl living in a remote Idaho town called Fingerbone. The train that travels into the cold mountains of Fingerbone crosses a lake that has claimed the lives of Ruthie's grandfather by accident and her mother by suicide, leaving Ruthie and her younger sister Lucille with their grandmother, Sylvia Foster. When Sylvia passes away, her two sisters-in-law move to Fingerbone to take care of the girls. Though pleasant and dutiful, Misses Lily and Nona Foster enjoy their solitude. After the first hard winter, they leave Ruthie and Lucille in the hands of a younger guardian, the girls' aunt Sylvie, who returns home after sixteen years. Sylvie, their mother's younger sister, is a boxcar drifter content with her itinerant lifestyle, but she commits to staying in Fingerbone to keep house and raise the girls. She has little experience with either and becomes like a "mermaid in a ship's cabin." Most days, she wanders to the lake by the train tracks and drifts in a stolen rowboat. In a house soon covered in soot and cobwebs, cans and newspapers, she feeds the girls from jelly jars and plates made from detergent boxes. Ruthie takes it all in stride, but her sister, Lucille, sees the other children in town and wants no part of Sylvie's world. Whereas the sisters are inseparable through much of their young lives, they begin to grow apart in their teenage years. Lucille matures into a prissy woman who swings her hips and sews her own dresses; Ruthie remains a tall, gangly child with a buzzard's hunch and a distaste for school. Soon their lives, like the house and the town and their dark family history, get lost in the tangled overgrowth of loneliness and neglect. The family ties that have kept them together can hold them no more. In language as lyrical and lush as the landscapes it describes, Robinson tells a haunting story of the permanence of loss and the transitory nature of love. She reminds us that, despite the fragility of human relationships, our desires to hold onto them are what make us whole.

The difference between women and men : stories by Bret Lott( Book )
7 editions published between 2005 and 2008 in English and held by 564 libraries worldwide
In a third collection of short fiction the author continues his exploration of the themes of love, family, and loss.