Keeping with the heart of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Bell tells a parallel story with a modern twist. As a ten year-old girl, Franny Price is taken from her mother. Forced to live in Pittsburgh with wealthy relatives sho are practically strangers, she learns to nurture herself. While her crazy aunt obsesses about a secret family key, Franny finds the courage to obey her instincts as she falls in love with the boy down the street and serches for her father. Ambitious neighbors arrive, resulting in a collision of ideals, jealousy, and a test of friendships.
As deafness, illness, and demonic forces close in around him, Ludwig van Beethoven must summon his faith and genius to complete the Missa Solemnis—a sacred masterpiece he believes could bring divine light into a darkening world.
I Made My Boy Out of Poetry is a powerful literary vision of rare scope, beauty and emotional intensity composed of stories and poems that flow in and out of each other like the most lucid and articulate of dreams. These are portraits and studies of
The bulk of the collection is eight short stories that are set in yesteryear. The compilation is filled out with four entertaining fantasy pieces and three poems.
