Good News from the Citradel
Happily, The Lime Tree has just been awarded a $25,000 McKnight Fellowship. This couldn't have come at a better time.
In selecting the manuscript (the book's first few chapters), the judge--Jane Hamilton, of The Book of Ruth--wrote:
"Historical fiction requires perhaps greater authority on the part of the writer, a greater hoax--and perhaps an implicit entreaty to the reader, to be generous, to please suspend disbelief. The writer of The Lime Tree brings to life a time and place removed from our own--(and yet not--one can't help think of border crossings, of being stuffed in dark trucks for weeks at a time). She does so with the lightest touch. The language is convincing, the characters exquisitely drawn, and the details for this reader seemed without question. The writer not only has a clarity of vision but translates that vision with precision to the page. I believed in the old man in the time of 1789 without question; I trusted her vision. Compelling, vivid, funny, and harrowing--it was terrible to have to stop [reading]."
Onward, onward!
In selecting the manuscript (the book's first few chapters), the judge--Jane Hamilton, of The Book of Ruth--wrote:
"Historical fiction requires perhaps greater authority on the part of the writer, a greater hoax--and perhaps an implicit entreaty to the reader, to be generous, to please suspend disbelief. The writer of The Lime Tree brings to life a time and place removed from our own--(and yet not--one can't help think of border crossings, of being stuffed in dark trucks for weeks at a time). She does so with the lightest touch. The language is convincing, the characters exquisitely drawn, and the details for this reader seemed without question. The writer not only has a clarity of vision but translates that vision with precision to the page. I believed in the old man in the time of 1789 without question; I trusted her vision. Compelling, vivid, funny, and harrowing--it was terrible to have to stop [reading]."
Onward, onward!
posted by Anne E. Campisi at 12:11 AM
1 Comments:
Long time reader, first time commenter. Just wanted to extend my congratulations! (But please don't stop blogging entirely in order to write -- your fans need something to read while we wait for the novel...) Hi to E for me.
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