Synopses & Reviews
This is the true history of Hannah Guttentags graduate schooling/captivity: lust, love, marriage, motherhood, cuckoldry, widowhood, and early American literature. Gone are the days when natives kidnap Puritan women, march them into the woods, and sell them to the French. By 1990, women enter the woods, get Ph.D.s, natives summer on Cape Cod, and the French are theorists.
Josh Russell's first novel, Yellow Jack, earned him a fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference; his second, My Bright Midnight, earned him a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and won the Independent Publisher Book Awards bronze medal in literary fiction. He lives in Decatur, Georgia and is Co-Director of the Georgia State University Creative Writing Program.
Synopsis
This is the true history of Hannah Guttentags graduate schooling/captivity: lust, love, marriage, motherhood, cuckoldry, widowhood, and early American literature.
Synopsis
John Russell writes about what it's like to be a woman and uses the life of Hannah Guttentag as his example. Gone are the days when natives kidnap Puritan women, march them into the woods, and sell them to the French. By 1990, women enter the woods to get PhDs, natives summer on Cape Cod, and the French are theorists.
Josh Russell is an Illinois native—born Thanksgiving Day, 1968—who now lives in Decatur, Georgia, and is co-director of the Georgia State University creative writing program. His novels Yellow Jack and My Bright Midnight earned him fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.
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Like the Puritan-era narratives she studies, Hannah Guttentags early-1990s narrative is a chronicle of the strange places she travelsNashville, Ithaca, New Orleans, Cleveland, Nebraskathe savages who captivate herlibrarians, grad students, professors, her babyand the redemption she earns.
Josh Russell's previous novels are Yellow Jack and My Bright Midnight. An Illinois nativeborn in Carbondale, raised in Normalhe now lives in Decatur, Georgia with his wife and daughter.
About the Author
Josh Russell: is an Illinois nativeborn Thanksgiving Day, 1968, in Carbondale, raised in Normalwho now lives in Decatur, Georgia, and is Co-Director of the Georgia State University Creative Writing Program. His novels Yellow Jack and My Bright Midnight earned him fellowships from the Bread Loaf Wri