Michelle Huneven
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- Vedertaget namn
- Huneven, Michelle
- Födelsedag
- 1953-08-14
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Altadena, California, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Altadena, California, USA (birth)
Los Angeles, California, USA - Utbildning
- Claremont School of Theology
Iowa Writers Workshop (MFA) - Yrken
- teaches creative writing at UCLA and at Occidental College
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Whiting Writers' Award (2002)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 6
- Medlemmar
- 1,135
- Popularitet
- #22,616
- Betyg
- 3.7
- Recensioner
- 77
- ISBN
- 34
- Favoritmärkt
- 3
Quotes
Did I know about "the rule of seventeen"? he asked.
I did not.
Seventeen, he said, is how many people it takes to instigate a coup in a church. (Tom Fox, 50)
How do we live in this world where friends disappear for years and years and reappear as if nothing has happened? (119)
Secrets work on me like splinters. I like them out. (123)
"That's what it means to have an open mind: you get to change it when you've missed something. An open mind lets in new evidence." (Adrian, 172)
In such a deluge of spiritual thought, I felt charged, inspired to be better, more generous; I felt dilated to beauty and suffering, and grateful for the slant of sunlight, the different greens of leaves... (180)
"This is why consensus is problematic," I said. "Because the intractable activist faction wears everyone else down." (Dana, 308)
"Rituals are road maps through life's transitions." (Alanna, 328)
"Systems that hazardous shouldn't be so complicated," said Jack. "If there are too many things that can go wrong, several can and probably will g wrong at once and create a scenario that nobody could anticipate." (348)… (mer)