OSPREY ISLAND Thisbe Nissen, Author. Knopf $24 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. THE GOOD PEOPLE OF . Sample text for Osprey Island / by Thisbe Nissen. One person Bud had neglected to introduce was both a new and an old face to Osprey Island, but he was standing in the shadow of the deck’s overhang against the stone wall of the basement, hoping that Bud wouldn’t notice him there. Roddy Jacobs would have preferred to hide in that shadow. Osprey Island. Thisbe Nissen. Paperback. List Price: * * Individual store prices may vary. Description. As summer begins on Osprey Island, preparations at the Lodge -- the island’s one and only hotel — are underway for the busy season. On maintenance and housekeeping there’s Lance and Lorna Squire, Osprey locals and raging drinkers.
Osprey Island By Thisbe Nissen By Thisbe Nissen By Thisbe Nissen By Thisbe Nissen. Best Seller. Category: Literary Fiction Category: Literary Fiction. Paperback $ | ISBN Buy. Ebook $ | ISBN Buy. All Formats + Paperback $ | ISBN Acclaim for This be Nissen's Osprey Island "Much like the great Joyce Carol Oates, Thisbe Nissen creates an exclusive world peopled with both the young and the old Nissen's writing is calm and poetic." — Baltimore City Paper "Well-crafted secrets abound in a place where family bonds often go beyond blood relations.". Thisbe Nissen author of Osprey Island and The Good People of New York If you've read either of Thisbe Nissen's novels, you know that she explores topics that are able to touch us all in unusually odd spots. editor's note: WordSmitten published this story in its original form in our premier issue of WSQJ, Volume , which is no longer in print.
Thisbe Nissen is an American author. Originally from New York City, she lived in Iowa for eleven years. Among her works are Osprey Island, The Good People of New York, and Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night. She has taught a fiction course at least once a year since the inception of the Iowa Young Writers' Workshop, a two-week intensive. “Much like her plain-spoken characters, Nissen is a supremely unfussy voice, arriving at surprising places via deceptively simple routes as a poignant summer reverie, Osprey Island should no doubt satisfy readers who can’t get away to the beach themselves.”. Thisbe Nissen's novels, "Osprey Island," "The Good People of New York," her short-story collection, "Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night," and a cookbook.
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