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Written by Sheridan Hill
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Tuesday, 31 July 2007 19:00 |
My Name As A Prayer Author: Sheridan Hill
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ISBN 978-0-9791355-0-7
Price: $12.95
Available: Amazon.com, Borders, The Muses  Troyanne Ross was an eccentric and humorous charm school owner in Charlotte, NC, who never relinquished her dream of being a star -- even on her deathbed. Sheridan Hill, a Black Mountain author, has published an intimate memoir chronicling the emotional healing and patient-caretaker challenges that she experienced with her mother, Troyanne Ross, during her mother's last year of life.
My Name As A Prayer begins with a hilarious chapter of mother-daughter angst and eventually moves to end-of-life issues. Ross was a prominent figure in the state in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s as one of the country's first weather women on WSOC-TV, a frequent star in Little Theatre productions, and the owner of the city's first modeling and personal development school. "A wonderful book! Hill has a huge talent...very sharp at the detail level, exceptionally deft dialogue, daring self-revelations...a magnificent job."
-- Robert Franklin, Founder, McFarland & Company "Extremely skillful and moving writing. The mother's ramblings are a genuine revelation of a level of meaning not accessible to ordinary discourse."
-- Ann Deagon "An observant, wry, loving...memoir about caring for her mother -- an irrepressible Charlotte charm schoolteacher -- during the last year of her mother's life."
-- Rob Newfeld, Asheville Citizen-Times
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Hat's Off!
Marjorie Hudson’s book Accidental Birds of the Carolinas, published by Press 53, has been selected as the featured book in March for Crowd the Book, a new project to promote books from small presses that deserve wide readership. Crowd the Book is the brainchild of a group of MFA grads from the Naropa Institute in Colorado, and it invites writers and small publishers to participate. Read the author interview, in which Hudson talks about the many jobs she’s taken to support herself and her writing career, including making crepe paper flowers for the Florida float at Nixon’s second inaugural parade. |
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