Scott, Joanna 1960-
Overview
| Works: | 87 works in 257 publications in 8 languages and 8,287 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Fiction Historical fiction Domestic fiction Short stories Psychological fiction Biographical fiction History Romance fiction Short stories, American Detective and mystery fiction |
| Roles: | Author, Other, Author of introduction, win |
| Classifications: | PS3569.C636, 813.54 |
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Most widely held works about
Joanna Scott
- Conversations with Joanna Scott by Joanna Scott( Book )
- Maureen Howard papers by Maureen Howard( )
- Catching up with Joanna Scott by Daniel Nester( )
- Contemporary literary criticism, yearbook 1987 : the year in fiction, poetry, drama, and world literature and the year's new authors, prizewinners, obituaries, and works of literary biography( Book )
Most widely held works by
Joanna Scott
Follow me : a novel by
Joanna Scott(
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14 editions published between 2009 and 2014 in English and held by 1,021 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In 1946, Sally Werner, the teenage daughter of hardscrabble Pennsylvania farmers, experiences something between rape and seduction at the hands of her cousin, resulting in a baby, family shame, and her running away. Each time Sally feels her past catching up with her, she follows the Tuskee River, finds a new town and assumes a new identity, eventually graduating from taking the charity--and more--of others to supporting herself. Her story is pieced together years later by her granddaughter, also named Sally, and a man who believes himself to be the infant she abandoned
14 editions published between 2009 and 2014 in English and held by 1,021 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In 1946, Sally Werner, the teenage daughter of hardscrabble Pennsylvania farmers, experiences something between rape and seduction at the hands of her cousin, resulting in a baby, family shame, and her running away. Each time Sally feels her past catching up with her, she follows the Tuskee River, finds a new town and assumes a new identity, eventually graduating from taking the charity--and more--of others to supporting herself. Her story is pieced together years later by her granddaughter, also named Sally, and a man who believes himself to be the infant she abandoned
Make believe : a novel by
Joanna Scott(
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15 editions published between 2000 and 2017 in English and Hebrew and held by 835 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
When four-year-old Bo is orphaned in the car accident that kills his mother, he becomes the focus of a fierce custody struggle between his two sets of very different grandparents. As the grownups play out their secret desires, hidden resentments, and stubborn self-righteousness, Bo finds himself at the mercy of a fallible adult world. With a child's perfect but partial understanding, he flees into himself--away from the sea of strangers--where he inhabits as eerie inner landscape filled with the dreamlike intensity unique to the imagination of a child
15 editions published between 2000 and 2017 in English and Hebrew and held by 835 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
When four-year-old Bo is orphaned in the car accident that kills his mother, he becomes the focus of a fierce custody struggle between his two sets of very different grandparents. As the grownups play out their secret desires, hidden resentments, and stubborn self-righteousness, Bo finds himself at the mercy of a fallible adult world. With a child's perfect but partial understanding, he flees into himself--away from the sea of strangers--where he inhabits as eerie inner landscape filled with the dreamlike intensity unique to the imagination of a child
Tourmaline : a novel by
Joanna Scott(
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18 editions published between 2002 and 2014 in English and French and held by 776 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A family heads for an island off the coast of Italy hoping to make a fortune in jewels, but instead is embroiled in a mystery surrounding the disappearance of a local girl
18 editions published between 2002 and 2014 in English and French and held by 776 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A family heads for an island off the coast of Italy hoping to make a fortune in jewels, but instead is embroiled in a mystery surrounding the disappearance of a local girl
Everybody loves somebody : stories by
Joanna Scott(
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12 editions published between 2006 and 2014 in English and held by 744 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Exploring tangled emotions and spanning the twentieth century, these tales capture the breathtaking tension found even in life's quietest moments
12 editions published between 2006 and 2014 in English and held by 744 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Exploring tangled emotions and spanning the twentieth century, these tales capture the breathtaking tension found even in life's quietest moments
Careers for women : a novel by
Joanna Scott(
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5 editions published in 2017 in English and held by 720 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Working for the New York Port Authority in the late 1950s under the tutelage of a legendary publicist, Maggie Gleason befriends her boss's newest protg, who goes missing amid rumors about a devastating secret from the p
5 editions published in 2017 in English and held by 720 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Working for the New York Port Authority in the late 1950s under the tutelage of a legendary publicist, Maggie Gleason befriends her boss's newest protg, who goes missing amid rumors about a devastating secret from the p
Liberation : a novel by
Joanna Scott(
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8 editions published between 2005 and 2008 in English and held by 621 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A train journey gives way to memories about an ailing woman's early adolescence on the war-torn Italian isle of Elba sixty years earlier, a time also marked by a refuge-seeking soldier and the woman's earliest experiences of innocent young love
8 editions published between 2005 and 2008 in English and held by 621 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A train journey gives way to memories about an ailing woman's early adolescence on the war-torn Italian isle of Elba sixty years earlier, a time also marked by a refuge-seeking soldier and the woman's earliest experiences of innocent young love
De Potter's Grand tour : a novel by
Joanna Scott(
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8 editions published between 2014 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 584 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In 1905, a tourist agent and amateur antiques collector named Armand de Potter mysteriously disappeared off the coast of Greece. His body is never recovered and his wife is left to manage his affairs on her own. But as she starts to piece together his life, she realizes that everything was not as he had said. Infused with details from letters and diary entries, the [book] twists forward and backward through time, revealing a lost world of fake identities, underground antiques networks, and a husband who wasn't what he seemed"--Amazon.com
8 editions published between 2014 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 584 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In 1905, a tourist agent and amateur antiques collector named Armand de Potter mysteriously disappeared off the coast of Greece. His body is never recovered and his wife is left to manage his affairs on her own. But as she starts to piece together his life, she realizes that everything was not as he had said. Infused with details from letters and diary entries, the [book] twists forward and backward through time, revealing a lost world of fake identities, underground antiques networks, and a husband who wasn't what he seemed"--Amazon.com
The best American short stories, 1993(
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1 edition published in 1993 in English and held by 529 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains twenty of the best short stories of 1993
1 edition published in 1993 in English and held by 529 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains twenty of the best short stories of 1993
The manikin : a novel by
Joanna Scott(
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11 editions published between 1996 and 2015 in English and Czech and held by 512 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A girl's coming of age in the strange world of stuffed animals. Peg Griswood lives in the manor of a famous taxidermist, surrounded by staring, silent creatures, looked after by eccentric servants and groundskeepers. Against this background, various human dramas are played out in what is basically a gothic novel of atmosphere. The setting is New York State early this century. By the author of Arrogance
11 editions published between 1996 and 2015 in English and Czech and held by 512 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A girl's coming of age in the strange world of stuffed animals. Peg Griswood lives in the manor of a famous taxidermist, surrounded by staring, silent creatures, looked after by eccentric servants and groundskeepers. Against this background, various human dramas are played out in what is basically a gothic novel of atmosphere. The setting is New York State early this century. By the author of Arrogance
Arrogance : a novel by
Joanna Scott(
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22 editions published between 1990 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 471 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In Joanna Scott's breakthrough novel Arrogance, the Austrian artist Egon Schiele comes to prismatic life in a narrative that defies convention, history, and identity. A self-professed genius and student of August Klimt, Scott's Schiele repeatedly challenges the boundaries of early twentieth-century Europe
22 editions published between 1990 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 471 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In Joanna Scott's breakthrough novel Arrogance, the Austrian artist Egon Schiele comes to prismatic life in a narrative that defies convention, history, and identity. A self-professed genius and student of August Klimt, Scott's Schiele repeatedly challenges the boundaries of early twentieth-century Europe
The closest possible union by
Joanna Scott(
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12 editions published between 1988 and 2003 in English and held by 362 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
12 editions published between 1988 and 2003 in English and held by 362 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Various antidotes : stories by
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11 editions published between 1993 and 2005 in English and held by 342 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Before she turned thirty, Joanna Scott published three wholly original and provocative novels that offered discerning readers sure proof of the arrival of a major new voice in American fiction. Her most recent work, Arrogance, which employed the short life of expressionist painter Egon Schiele as the inspiration for an exploration of art, genius, madness, and society in fin de siecle Vienna, was a finalist for the 1991 PEN/Faulkner Award and won the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Now, in her first collection of short stories, Various Antidotes, Scott culls from the annals of science and medicine real and imaginary figures whose peculiar obsessions she transmutes with effortless alchemy into the stuff of art. In one story she writes of van Leeuwenhoek, the mad lens-grinder of Delft, whose early microscope designs allowed him to see life in a drop of water and for whom "there was hardly a difference between discovering life and creating it." In another she offers an account of the origin of the verb burke, after William Burke, who was hanged in Edinburgh in 1829 for murdering victims by suffocation and selling them as cadavers to a professor of anatomy. She reacquaints us with Dorothea Dix, samaritan of the criminally insane, and introduces us to, among others, Charlotte Corday, who mortally stabbed French physician and revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat while he was taking his bath. Each story is a perfectly wrought gem, and each offers ample evidence that Scott, like Hawthorne's Owen Warland, is truly an "artist of the beautiful."
11 editions published between 1993 and 2005 in English and held by 342 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Before she turned thirty, Joanna Scott published three wholly original and provocative novels that offered discerning readers sure proof of the arrival of a major new voice in American fiction. Her most recent work, Arrogance, which employed the short life of expressionist painter Egon Schiele as the inspiration for an exploration of art, genius, madness, and society in fin de siecle Vienna, was a finalist for the 1991 PEN/Faulkner Award and won the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Now, in her first collection of short stories, Various Antidotes, Scott culls from the annals of science and medicine real and imaginary figures whose peculiar obsessions she transmutes with effortless alchemy into the stuff of art. In one story she writes of van Leeuwenhoek, the mad lens-grinder of Delft, whose early microscope designs allowed him to see life in a drop of water and for whom "there was hardly a difference between discovering life and creating it." In another she offers an account of the origin of the verb burke, after William Burke, who was hanged in Edinburgh in 1829 for murdering victims by suffocation and selling them as cadavers to a professor of anatomy. She reacquaints us with Dorothea Dix, samaritan of the criminally insane, and introduces us to, among others, Charlotte Corday, who mortally stabbed French physician and revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat while he was taking his bath. Each story is a perfectly wrought gem, and each offers ample evidence that Scott, like Hawthorne's Owen Warland, is truly an "artist of the beautiful."
Fading, my Parmacheene belle by
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11 editions published between 1985 and 2003 in English and held by 294 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
11 editions published between 1985 and 2003 in English and held by 294 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The love key : how to unlock your psychic powers to find true love by
Joanna Scott(
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4 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 53 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The Love Key is the first book to combine psychic love advice with dating know-how, in a friendly, funny and accessible way that has mass market appeal. It shows you how to use your psychic intuition to date the right people and find true love. Joanna Scott, psychic counsellor on Sky’s Psychic and Soul channel, teaches you to: Discover your psychic abilities and master your romantic psychic skills; Mind-read your dates and discover exactly how they feel about you; Use your sixth sense to break negative patterns; Identify Mr Wrong before he breaks your heart, and attract a loving partner who is perfect for you."--Publisher description
4 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 53 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The Love Key is the first book to combine psychic love advice with dating know-how, in a friendly, funny and accessible way that has mass market appeal. It shows you how to use your psychic intuition to date the right people and find true love. Joanna Scott, psychic counsellor on Sky’s Psychic and Soul channel, teaches you to: Discover your psychic abilities and master your romantic psychic skills; Mind-read your dates and discover exactly how they feel about you; Use your sixth sense to break negative patterns; Identify Mr Wrong before he breaks your heart, and attract a loving partner who is perfect for you."--Publisher description
Careers for Women : a novel by
Joanna Scott(
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3 editions published in 2017 in English and held by 36 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
New York in the late 1950s. A city, and a world, on the cusp of change...Maggie Gleason is looking toward the future. Part of a midcentury wave of young women seeking new lives in New York City, Maggie works for legendary Port Authority public relations maven Lee K. Jaffe--affectionately known to her loyal staff as Mrs. J. Having left Cleveland, Maggie has come to believe that she can write any story for herself that she imagines.Pauline Moreau is running from the past--and a shameful secret. She arrives in the city on the brink of despair, saddled with a young daughter who needs more love, attention, and resources than Pauline can ever hope to provide. Seeing that Pauline needs a helping hand, Mrs. J tasks Maggie with befriending, and looking after, Pauline.As the old New York gives way to the new, and Mrs. J's dream of the world's largest skyscraper begins to rise from the streets of lower Manhattan, Pauline--with the aid of Maggie and Mrs. J--also remakes herself. But when she reignites the scandal that drove her to New York, none of their lives will ever be the same. Maggie must question everything she thought she knew about love, work, ambition, and family to discover the truth about the enigmatic, strong woman she thought she had rescued.Careers for Women is a masterful novel about the difficulties of building a career, a dream, or a life--and about the powerful small mercies of friendship and compassion
3 editions published in 2017 in English and held by 36 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
New York in the late 1950s. A city, and a world, on the cusp of change...Maggie Gleason is looking toward the future. Part of a midcentury wave of young women seeking new lives in New York City, Maggie works for legendary Port Authority public relations maven Lee K. Jaffe--affectionately known to her loyal staff as Mrs. J. Having left Cleveland, Maggie has come to believe that she can write any story for herself that she imagines.Pauline Moreau is running from the past--and a shameful secret. She arrives in the city on the brink of despair, saddled with a young daughter who needs more love, attention, and resources than Pauline can ever hope to provide. Seeing that Pauline needs a helping hand, Mrs. J tasks Maggie with befriending, and looking after, Pauline.As the old New York gives way to the new, and Mrs. J's dream of the world's largest skyscraper begins to rise from the streets of lower Manhattan, Pauline--with the aid of Maggie and Mrs. J--also remakes herself. But when she reignites the scandal that drove her to New York, none of their lives will ever be the same. Maggie must question everything she thought she knew about love, work, ambition, and family to discover the truth about the enigmatic, strong woman she thought she had rescued.Careers for Women is a masterful novel about the difficulties of building a career, a dream, or a life--and about the powerful small mercies of friendship and compassion
Dusky rose by
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7 editions published between 1980 and 1982 in English and German and held by 33 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
7 editions published between 1980 and 1982 in English and German and held by 33 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The UK and EC law by
Joanna Scott(
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1 edition published in 1991 in English and held by 24 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 1991 in English and held by 24 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A flight of swallows by
Joanna Scott(
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3 editions published in 1982 in English and held by 23 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published in 1982 in English and held by 23 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
La llave del amor : cómo liberar tu poder secreto y encontrar el amor by
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1 edition published in 2011 in Spanish and held by 20 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The author explains techniques for developing psychic skills and using these skills to find love
1 edition published in 2011 in Spanish and held by 20 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The author explains techniques for developing psychic skills and using these skills to find love
Corporate policy by
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4 editions published between 1984 and 1986 in English and held by 19 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
4 editions published between 1984 and 1986 in English and held by 19 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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American fiction Americans Artists Atrocities Austria Authors, American Bereavement Boys Canadian fiction Custody of children Domestic fiction European Economic Community countries Family secrets Female friendship Friendship Grandmothers Grandparents Great Britain Islands Italian American women Italy Italy--Elba Italy--Portoferraio Law Love Manners and customs Man-woman relationships Middle-aged women Missing persons New York (State)--New York New York (State)--Rochester Orphans Parapsychology Pennsylvania Romance fiction, American Schiele, Egon, Scott, Joanna, Senegalese Short stories, American Short stories, Canadian Slaves Slave trade Slave traders Soldiers Taxidermy Tourmaline Voyages around the world Widowers Women immigrants Young women
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Joanna Scott Amerikaans romanschrijfster
Joanna Scott écrivaine américaine
Joanna Scott escriptora estatunidenca
Joanna Scott escritora estadounidense
Joanna Scott novelista estauxunidense
Joanna Scott romancista norte-americana
Joanna Scott scrittrice statunitense
Joanna Scott shkrimtare amerikane
Joanna Scott yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija
סקוט, ג׳ואנה
סקוט, ג׳ואנה 1960-
סקוט, ג׳ואנה, סופרת אמריקאית
جوانا اسکات نویسنده آمریکایی
جوانا سكوت كاتبة أمريكية
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