Gloria Vanderbilt
1) CVC7
Author
Publisher
Exile Editions
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The annual $15,000 Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction competition is open to all Canadian writers, with two prizes awarded: $10,000 for the best story by an emerging writer, and $5,000 for the best story by a writer at any point of her/his career. The CVC Anthology series features each year's finalists, and is dedicated to the memory of Carter V. Cooper. From writer, artist and philanthropist, Gloria Vanderbilt, who sponsors one of the largest literary...
Author
Publisher
Exile Editions
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The best of today's Canadian short fiction is showcased in this third volume of the Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology series, which features the 12 stories short-listed-among them the three winners-for the 2013 $15,000 Vanderbilt/Exile Short Fiction Competition. The book contains contemporary writing that reflects a diversity in emerging and established Canadian writers, including Austin Clarke, Leon Rooke, Priscilla Uppal, Greg Hollingshead,...
Author
Publisher
Exile Editions
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Penned by the multitalented Gloria Vanderbilt herself, this collection features stories that are touching, surprising, and told in a beautifully calibrated prose. The tales seize upon brief moments that are resonant with the random static of everyday disaster, illustrating characters who merely step into a room to find that everything in their lives has been inexplicably reversed. Engaging and enigmatic, this anthology relates powerful narratives...
4) Obsession
Author
Language
English
Description
The marriages of desire . . . From the multitalented and versatile Gloria Vanderbilt comes a passionate, sensual, witty, and puzzling tale of erotic obsession, beauty, and revenge, told in tandem by two women obsessed with the same man-and, ultimately, with each other. Talbot Bingham is a renowned architectural genius who, with his formidable wife, Priscilla, creates an architectural community. When he dies unexpectedly in the middle of their tenth...
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Anderson Cooper's intensely busy career as a journalist for CNN and CBS's 60 Minutes affords him little time to spend with his 91-year-old mother. After she briefly fell ill, he and Gloria began a conversation through email unlike any they had ever had before, a correspondence of surprising honesty and depth in which they discussed their lives, the things that matter to them, and what they still want to learn about each other.
"Starred Review."--Booklist...