Huddle, David 1942-
Overview
| Works: | 55 works in 135 publications in 7 languages and 7,651 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Fiction Short stories Psychological fiction Poetry Bildungsromans Domestic fiction Musical fiction Romance fiction Thrillers (Fiction) Criticism, interpretation, etc |
| Roles: | Author, Editor, Contributor |
| Classifications: | PS3558.U287, 813.54 |
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Most widely held works about
David Huddle
- David Huddle issue( Book )
- The Poco Field : politics, culture, and place in contemporary Appalachia by Talmage A Stanley( )
- An evening with David Huddle by David Huddle( Visual )
- Conversation with-- David Huddle( Visual )
- Here, there, where : the shifting nature of David Huddle's Appalachia( Book )
- Highland Summer Conference( Visual )
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Most widely held works by
David Huddle
Blacksnake at the family reunion : poems by
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4 editions published in 2012 in English and held by 1,300 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
David Huddle's latest collection, Blacksnake at the Family Reunion, shares intimate and amusing stories as if told by a quirky, usually reticent, great uncle. In ""Boy Story, "" a teenage romantic meeting ends abruptly when the boy's sweetheart realizes they have parked near her grandmother's grave. The poem ""Aloft"" recalls a widowed mother's indignation after she receives a marriage proposal in a hot air balloon. Haunted by the words on his older sister's tombstone -- ""born & died ... then / a single date / in November""--The speaker in one poem struggles to understand a tragic loss: ""
4 editions published in 2012 in English and held by 1,300 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
David Huddle's latest collection, Blacksnake at the Family Reunion, shares intimate and amusing stories as if told by a quirky, usually reticent, great uncle. In ""Boy Story, "" a teenage romantic meeting ends abruptly when the boy's sweetheart realizes they have parked near her grandmother's grave. The poem ""Aloft"" recalls a widowed mother's indignation after she receives a marriage proposal in a hot air balloon. Haunted by the words on his older sister's tombstone -- ""born & died ... then / a single date / in November""--The speaker in one poem struggles to understand a tragic loss: ""
The story of a million years by
David Huddle(
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16 editions published between 1999 and 2017 in 7 languages and held by 1,111 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A 15-year-old girl in Cleveland has an affair with an older man, her mother's friend. Years later the emotional fallout will echo in unexpected ways through the lives of people close to her. A first novel
16 editions published between 1999 and 2017 in 7 languages and held by 1,111 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A 15-year-old girl in Cleveland has an affair with an older man, her mother's friend. Years later the emotional fallout will echo in unexpected ways through the lives of people close to her. A first novel
The best American short stories, 1996 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines(
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1 edition published in 1996 in English and held by 520 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A compilation of twenty-four American short stories by authors such as Mary Gordon, Robert Olen Butler, Alice Adams, and Jamaica Kincaid. Includes a list of 100 additional notable stories from 1995
1 edition published in 1996 in English and held by 520 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A compilation of twenty-four American short stories by authors such as Mary Gordon, Robert Olen Butler, Alice Adams, and Jamaica Kincaid. Includes a list of 100 additional notable stories from 1995
La Tour dreams of the wolf girl by
David Huddle(
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8 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and Dutch and held by 458 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fleeing her failing marriage, art history professor Suzanne Nelson seeks refuge in her imagination and in the enigmatic work and the world of sixteenth-century painter Georges de La Tour as she invents the artist's final painting sessions with a young model who possesses a thatch of wolflike hair growing across her back
8 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and Dutch and held by 458 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fleeing her failing marriage, art history professor Suzanne Nelson seeks refuge in her imagination and in the enigmatic work and the world of sixteenth-century painter Georges de La Tour as she invents the artist's final painting sessions with a young model who possesses a thatch of wolflike hair growing across her back
Paper boy by
David Huddle(
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5 editions published in 1979 in English and Undetermined and held by 359 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
5 editions published in 1979 in English and Undetermined and held by 359 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Only the little bone by
David Huddle(
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4 editions published in 1986 in English and held by 337 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
4 editions published in 1986 in English and held by 337 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Nothing can make me do this by
David Huddle(
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3 editions published between 2011 and 2012 in English and held by 318 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Can we ever truly know another person, however well-loved? Brainy, decent, funny, and likeable, the members of Horace Houseman's family and his closest friend possess quirky and compelling interior lives that they reveal to no one else. Enter the minds of Horace, Eve, Hannah, Clara, Bill, and others over fifty years, leaping in chronology and intersecting the vantage points, in a kaleidoscopic vision of a contemporary clan (and their secrets)
3 editions published between 2011 and 2012 in English and held by 318 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Can we ever truly know another person, however well-loved? Brainy, decent, funny, and likeable, the members of Horace Houseman's family and his closest friend possess quirky and compelling interior lives that they reveal to no one else. Enter the minds of Horace, Eve, Hannah, Clara, Bill, and others over fifty years, leaping in chronology and intersecting the vantage points, in a kaleidoscopic vision of a contemporary clan (and their secrets)
Intimates : a book of stories by
David Huddle(
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5 editions published between 1992 and 1993 in English and held by 300 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
5 editions published between 1992 and 1993 in English and held by 300 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Summer lake : new and selected poems by
David Huddle(
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2 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 280 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Summer Lake beautifully coherent compilation of Huddle's best poetry to date, chronicles one late-twentieth-century American life, disclosing the anthropology of the human spirit. The collection opens with a plainness of language and form born of the poet's native Blue Ridge Mountains and builds to an amalgamation of free and formal variety, including sonnets and a lengthy poem in terza rima. It pauses over vivid childhood moments, visits the wounds from a "Tour of Duty" in Vietnam, and enters into that passage of deep adulthood during which one's parents fall ill and die. These are ordinary life events, rendered with uncanny penetration and at times open, even angry, despair. When all is said and done, though, the last two lines of the book recall "my mother cooking supper / my father whistling as he walked home from work."
2 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 280 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Summer Lake beautifully coherent compilation of Huddle's best poetry to date, chronicles one late-twentieth-century American life, disclosing the anthropology of the human spirit. The collection opens with a plainness of language and form born of the poet's native Blue Ridge Mountains and builds to an amalgamation of free and formal variety, including sonnets and a lengthy poem in terza rima. It pauses over vivid childhood moments, visits the wounds from a "Tour of Duty" in Vietnam, and enters into that passage of deep adulthood during which one's parents fall ill and die. These are ordinary life events, rendered with uncanny penetration and at times open, even angry, despair. When all is said and done, though, the last two lines of the book recall "my mother cooking supper / my father whistling as he walked home from work."
The writing habit by
David Huddle(
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10 editions published between 1991 and 1994 in English and held by 253 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
10 editions published between 1991 and 1994 in English and held by 253 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The high spirits : stories of men and women by
David Huddle(
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5 editions published between 1988 and 1989 in English and held by 251 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
5 editions published between 1988 and 1989 in English and held by 251 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A dream with no stump roots in it : stories by
David Huddle(
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3 editions published in 1975 in English and held by 236 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published in 1975 in English and held by 236 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Grayscale : poems by
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2 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 231 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Spiraling between the tenses of time, Huddle creates in these poems a defense against the encroachment of age through the resources of language and memory, imagination and art. He gives us in Grayscale not false hopes about our lives but a range of ways to transcend their limits."--Jacket
2 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 231 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Spiraling between the tenses of time, Huddle creates in these poems a defense against the encroachment of age through the resources of language and memory, imagination and art. He gives us in Grayscale not false hopes about our lives but a range of ways to transcend their limits."--Jacket
A David Huddle reader : selected prose and poetry by
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4 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 229 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
4 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 229 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Tenorman : a novella by
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4 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 195 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A spoof on the culture-preservation programs of the National Endowment for the Arts. The protagonist is a black jazz saxophonist who in return for a free apartment and other perks agrees to be wired so the NEA can monitor his creative process, including his romances. By the author of Only the Little Bone
4 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 195 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A spoof on the culture-preservation programs of the National Endowment for the Arts. The protagonist is a black jazz saxophonist who in return for a free apartment and other perks agrees to be wired so the NEA can monitor his creative process, including his romances. By the author of Only the Little Bone
Not : a trio : two stories and a novella by
David Huddle(
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2 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 190 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Not: A Trio is a sequence of three related stories that, taken together, form a unified work of fiction. This faceted approach is especially suited to a work that reveals the intricate connections among Danny Marlow, Claire McClelland, and Ben McClelland." "Danny, Claire, and Ben are thoughtful people who know each other well - yet hardly at all. Danny narrates the first story, introducing the reader to Claire, a therapist who has, he says, "lived a life that would drop most men in their tracks." The second story, told in the third person, explores the character of Claire's second husband, Ben. These two men and their stories set the stage for the appearance of Claire in the third and most powerful story. Claire informs the reader at the outset that a crisis looms: "At any rate, I'm not going to be able to go on with the life I have so carefully constructed for myself here in town."" "Huddle is especially concerned with the forces that separate these singular individuals from each other - and from themselves - as well as with the romantic and sexual energy pulling Danny and Claire together and with the wistful intimacy briefly held between Claire and Ben. In the process, the book also draws a darkly humorous picture of small-town life in contemporary Vermont."--BOOK JACKET
2 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 190 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Not: A Trio is a sequence of three related stories that, taken together, form a unified work of fiction. This faceted approach is especially suited to a work that reveals the intricate connections among Danny Marlow, Claire McClelland, and Ben McClelland." "Danny, Claire, and Ben are thoughtful people who know each other well - yet hardly at all. Danny narrates the first story, introducing the reader to Claire, a therapist who has, he says, "lived a life that would drop most men in their tracks." The second story, told in the third person, explores the character of Claire's second husband, Ben. These two men and their stories set the stage for the appearance of Claire in the third and most powerful story. Claire informs the reader at the outset that a crisis looms: "At any rate, I'm not going to be able to go on with the life I have so carefully constructed for myself here in town."" "Huddle is especially concerned with the forces that separate these singular individuals from each other - and from themselves - as well as with the romantic and sexual energy pulling Danny and Claire together and with the wistful intimacy briefly held between Claire and Ben. In the process, the book also draws a darkly humorous picture of small-town life in contemporary Vermont."--BOOK JACKET
Stopping by home by
David Huddle(
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4 editions published in 1988 in English and held by 150 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
4 editions published in 1988 in English and held by 150 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Glory river : poems by
David Huddle(
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3 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and held by 146 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In Glory River, David Huddle's poems pit precise observation, extravagant language, and humor against despair in an attempt to find a way to live in a new century in which the values of the past are dissolving and those of the future are frightening. Huddle opens with a sequence of exceptional tales about an imaginary hamlet in the mountains of Virginia. The residents of Glory River are rough, crude, and full of fight, but eager to tell their stories, "to explain how / in that place they had become the people / they were." Huddle also includes a series of poems exploring modern life, touching upon subjects as diverse as memory, family, art, politics, and pain. Accessible and often humorous, the poems in Glory River range from the strange and extraordinary happenings in the fantastical Virginia town to the painful, hopeful, and no less magical situations that can occur in real lives. -- Publisher's website
3 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and held by 146 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In Glory River, David Huddle's poems pit precise observation, extravagant language, and humor against despair in an attempt to find a way to live in a new century in which the values of the past are dissolving and those of the future are frightening. Huddle opens with a sequence of exceptional tales about an imaginary hamlet in the mountains of Virginia. The residents of Glory River are rough, crude, and full of fight, but eager to tell their stories, "to explain how / in that place they had become the people / they were." Huddle also includes a series of poems exploring modern life, touching upon subjects as diverse as memory, family, art, politics, and pain. Accessible and often humorous, the poems in Glory River range from the strange and extraordinary happenings in the fantastical Virginia town to the painful, hopeful, and no less magical situations that can occur in real lives. -- Publisher's website
My immaculate assassin by
David Huddle(
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1 edition published in 2016 in English and held by 142 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Maura Nelson, who has a sophisticated background in science, medicine, and programming, has stumbled upon a way to execute someone using only the computers in her home office--silently, anonymously, leaving no trace of violence, so that her target appears to have died of natural causes. Maura tests her method by eliminating Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad, but this experience affects her so deeply that she doesn't want to continue alone. She entices Jack Plymouth into a partnership to rid the world of those they decide "need to be dead." Both a steamy romance and a cyber-thriller, My Immaculate Assassin raises disturbing and timely questions about the technology and morality of "idealistic" murder, carried out remotely
1 edition published in 2016 in English and held by 142 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Maura Nelson, who has a sophisticated background in science, medicine, and programming, has stumbled upon a way to execute someone using only the computers in her home office--silently, anonymously, leaving no trace of violence, so that her target appears to have died of natural causes. Maura tests her method by eliminating Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad, but this experience affects her so deeply that she doesn't want to continue alone. She entices Jack Plymouth into a partnership to rid the world of those they decide "need to be dead." Both a steamy romance and a cyber-thriller, My Immaculate Assassin raises disturbing and timely questions about the technology and morality of "idealistic" murder, carried out remotely
The Faulkes chronicle by
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3 editions published in 2014 in English and held by 131 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A work of uncanny originality, David Huddle's nineteenth book is the account of an extraordinary death trip taken by a charismatic and beloved woman, her husband, and an astonishing number of offspring, from infants to young adults. The Faulkes Chronicle explores how children grieve, and shows how the wit and courage of even the littlest brothers and sisters can be a source of resilience. Familial conversation composes an intimate requiem, transforming loss into comprehension. Only one of our finest writers could manage this delicate material. The Faulkes Chronicle is a brief, autumnal novel -- made of momentary details yet with an encompassing grandeur
3 editions published in 2014 in English and held by 131 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A work of uncanny originality, David Huddle's nineteenth book is the account of an extraordinary death trip taken by a charismatic and beloved woman, her husband, and an astonishing number of offspring, from infants to young adults. The Faulkes Chronicle explores how children grieve, and shows how the wit and courage of even the littlest brothers and sisters can be a source of resilience. Familial conversation composes an intimate requiem, transforming loss into comprehension. Only one of our finest writers could manage this delicate material. The Faulkes Chronicle is a brief, autumnal novel -- made of momentary details yet with an encompassing grandeur
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Adultery African American musicians Aging parents American fiction American literature American poetry Appalachian Region Appalachian Region, Southern Art appreciation Artists' models Assassination Authors, American Authorship Brockport Writers Forum (State University of New York College at Brockport) Canadian fiction Computer crimes Couples Deception Families Family secrets France Giardina, Denise, Grief Huddle, David, Jazz musicians La Tour, Georges du Mesnil de, Life change events Literature Love-hate relationships Manners and customs Man-woman relationships Middle-aged men--Sexual behavior Mistresses Mothers--Death Older men Poetry Poets, American Secreast, Donald, Short stories Short stories, American Short stories, Canadian Smith, Lee, Teenage girls--Sexual behavior United States Vermont Vietnam War (1961-1975) Washington (D.C.) Wild women Willis, Meredith Sue Women art historians
