· Mary Coin, a novel by Marisa Silver, is one of my favorite novels. Silver takes base elements like poverty, homelessness,dust storms and love and transforms them into a valued amalgam. Mary is part Cherokee, all Okie and tough/5. Winner of the O. Henry Prize, her fiction has been included in The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, as well as other anthologies. Her novel Mary Coin () is also a New York Times Bestseller. Full Biography Author Interview Link to Marisa Silver's WebsiteAuthor: Marisa Silver. · We look at it, but we no longer see it, to borrow a distinction made in Marisa Silver’s phenomenal new novel, “Mary Coin.” Inspired by Lange’s image, Silver’s novel unfolds through the Author: Antoine Wilson.
Bestselling author Marisa Silver takes Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother photograph as inspiration for a story of two women—one famous and one forgotten—and their remarkable chance encounter. In , a young mother resting by the side of the road in central California is spontaneously photographed by a woman documenting migrant laborers in search of work. Marisa Silver in her new novel, Mary Coin, takes all this on, and the result is a compelling, hard-to-put down story. As the cover of the novel suggests, the story emanates from the photograph, "Migrant Mother," taken by Dorothea Lange in at a pea-pickers' camp in Nipomo, California. In her first novel since The God of War, the critically acclaimed author Marisa Silver takes Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" photograph as inspiration for a breathtaking reinvention - a story of two women, one famous and one forgotten, and of the remarkable legacy of their chance encounter. In , a young mother resting by the side of a road in Central California is spontaneously.
Mary Coin. Marisa Silver. Penguin, - Fiction - pages. 20 Reviews. Bestselling author Marisa Silver takes Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother photograph as inspiration for a story of two women?one famous and one forgotten?and their remarkable chance encounter. In , a young mother resting by the side of the road in central California is. “Marisa Silver renders the soul of an iconic image, giving it moving life. Mary Coin is a soaring work of imagination, dedication and history.” —Mona Simpson, author of My Hollywood and Anywhere But Here “An extraordinarily compassionate and wise novel, Mary Coin imagines the life of Dorothea Lange's iconic "Migrant Mother." What emerges, in Silver's nuanced, resonant telling, is a poignant exploration of a single life that touches many others, and a powerful, moving portrait of. Mary Coin and Vera Dare both consider the births of their children with a solemnity we rarely allow women, fictional or otherwise. Silver deploys no lens smeared with Vaseline.
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