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Good Kings Bad Kings: A Novel by Susan Nussbaum

Good Kings Bad Kings: A Novel Susan Nussbaum ebook
Page: 320
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN: 9781616203252
Format: pdf

Jan 15, 2014 - Before the show she and I had a chance to share ideas and compare stories about our writing lives, and two short years later, in 2012, her first novel Good Kings Bad Kings was published. Chicago-based playwright Susan Nussbaum won Barbara Kingsolver's PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction for this début novel about a group of people living in an institution for juveniles with disabilities. May 16, 2013 - By Kelly Roark Susan Nussbaum's debut novel is eye-opening, devastating and laugh-out-loud funny. Feb 7, 2014 - "Good Kings, Bad Kings". Jun 14, 2013 - Susan Nussbaum's debut novel, winner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, is, as Rosellen Brown says, "a celebration of strength, dignity, and the cathartic pleasure of telling it like it is." Set in a nursing home for young adults with disabilities, Good Kings Bad Kings mines the lives of seven characters: a diverse group of young people and their caregivers. Children and staff at the centre take The book also gave an insight into the life of a community without men. Feb 27, 2014 - Taking place in the fictional world of Westeros, the novels challenge the typical fantasy novel archetypes in a very interesting way. Aug 18, 2013 - Debut Novels Redoux - Good Kings Bad Kings by Susan Nussbaum. A group of young disabled people in a fictional Chicago i. Just yesterday I wrote about a couple of debut novels and how important I find reading them. While Nussbaum exposes some of the very real horrors of the institutionalization of disabled persons, “Good Kings Bad Kings” is far from heavy-handed. May 3, 2013 - Notes from the book closet on forthcoming titles that caught our eye. Apr 10, 2014 - I was once told that you can tell the tenor of a book by the first few lines. Mar 15, 2014 - Good Kings, Bad Kings is set in an institution for children with disabilities. €�Good Kings Bad Kings” (Algonquin Books), by Susan Nussbaum, out May 28th.