The author recalls growing up with her father, Shane, the disowned son of playwright Eugene O'Neill.
The Business of Storytelling "This book is essential—a reminder that the world would be a better place if everyone knew how to tell a good story." —Diana Spechler, author and seven-time Moth StorySLAM winner
“Like the best of the Bard himself, Long Story Short combines dazzling repartee with iconic, nuanced characters and the kind of charged, perfectly paced romance fit for the world stage...a sparkling Shakespearean homage and a wonderful ...
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, 11-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya in search of safe haven.
with , a story which became more important , more weighty than a short story much in the way a pocket battle ship is more important than a PT Boat . In writing such a long story I didn't have to restrain much of anything or streamline ...
Travis Bogard calls it “a work well forgotten,” but it returns with all the vigor of the repressed in Boul- ton's recasting of it as The Guilty One, or perhaps it might be called The Guilty Oneill. For this work, alone, ...
Knowledge of the whole biblical story will give deeper meaning to the individual parts. Recall the quote from Avengers: Endgame with which this book began: “I love you 3000.” Having seen the whole movie, I hear more in each part.
To Make a Long Story Short: More Stories to Tell
"Unvarnished. Funny. Leaving no stone unturned." . . . So say the publishers about this book I've written. What I say is that this is the story of my life, told as clear as a Texas sky and in the same rhythm that I lived it.
Sheila O'Neill has shared with the world her More ofa Long Story and still more story to come. I'm also grateful to Agnes Boulton's niece, Dallas Cline, for giving me her perspective on the “long story,” and for permission to use ...
An enthralling collection of stories—with unforgettable characters, ingenious plotting, and surprise endings—from internatioanl bestselling author Jeffrey Archer A dying man doesn't know which of his relations to leave his fortune to, ...