{"product_id":"the-women-at-the-well-paperback","title":"The Women at the Well - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGrace Bauer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eThe Women at the Well\u003c\/i\u003e, Bauer sings out of silent alternative stories of the Biblical women she first encountered as a schoolgirl listening to the nuns. Wry humor is only one element of Bauer's illuminating re-vision as she inhabits her women in the longing, sassiness, rebellion, compassion, wavering, and triumph. She lets them like each other--Rachel and Leah reconcile--and lets them relish their bodies. Mary complains about never 'knowing pleasure.' She creates The Prodigal Daughter who, like Woolf's Judith Shakespeare, experiences a vastly different fate from her male counterpart's. But unlike poor Judith, this daughter survives and bears her own girl child . . . I had my favorites among Bauer's women, and you will, too. Whoever they are, the Bible will never be the same.\"--Carole Simmons Oles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGRACE BAUER is the author of \u003ci\u003eRetreats \u0026amp; Recognitions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeholding Eye\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Women At The Well\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as three chapbooks of poems. She is also co-editor, with Julie Kane, of \u003ci\u003eUmpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum: Critical and Creative Responses to Everette Maddox\u003c\/i\u003e. A new chapbook, \u003ci\u003eCafé Culture, \u003c\/i\u003eis forthcoming from Imaginary Friend Press. Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including: \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary Review, Arts \u0026amp; Letters, Chariton Review, Colorado Review, Doubletake, Georgia Review, Margie, Poetry, Ploughshares, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Rattle\u003c\/i\u003e. She has been awarded an Academy of American Poets' Prize, fellowships from The Virginia Commission for the Arts, The Nebraska Arts Council, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and a bronze medal in poetry from the Independent Book Publisher's National Book Awards for 2008. A native of Pennsylvania, she currently lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she is a professor of English, creative writing, and women's studies at the University of Nebraska.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.27 x 8.5 x 5.51 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 18, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42111674122375,"sku":"9781622881147","price":29.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/93df0e052ad1bf47a613832ce30d20c5.webp?v=1732482121","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-women-at-the-well-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}