Miss Jane is a beautiful book which delivers a message that is both meditative and quietly powerful. Brad Watson relates a fictional account about a woman, Jane Chisolm, inspired by his real-life great aunt. He does so with a prose that is lyrical, elegant and soothing/5. Brad Watson is the author of two collections of stories and two novels, The Heaven of Mercury, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Miss Jane, longlisted for the National Book Award. His fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Granta, Ecotone, Electric Literature, and the Idaho Review, among other publications. He teaches at the University of Wyoming, Laramie. · Salon talks to Brad Watson, acclaimed author of "The Heaven of Mercury," about his new novel "Miss Jane". Brad Watson has been an aspiring movie star, a Author: Silas House.
"Miss Jane," however, takes Watson's writing to new heights. The story is inspired by the life of his own great-aunt and tells the story of Jane Chisolm, born with a "difference" that. Miss Jane is a novel of majestic empathy. Readers have Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Gustav Flaubert's Emma Bovary, Harper Lee's Scout - to these and other immortal women of literature, we can now add Brad Watson's divine beacon of love, Miss Jane. Miss Jane covers a quiet, often solitary lifetime enriched by the unfettered outdoors, the tough routine of farm life, and the ache of unconsummated love. Watson's characters are mentally dexterous in spite of their physical hardship. The book plays on the tongue like an oyster — first salty, then cold — before slipping away to be.
Miss Jane is based on Brad Watson's great-aunt's life. She, like the central character in his novel, suffered from a genital birth defect. But what exactly was it? In an interview at W.W. Norton, Watson says: As was common in her day (she actually lived from , but it applies to my Jane's day and time, too), no one really talked about it. Brad Watson is the author of two collections of stories and two novels, The Heaven of Mercury, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Miss Jane, longlisted for the National Book Award. His fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Granta, Ecotone, Electric Literature, and the Idaho Review, among other publications. He teaches at the University of Wyoming, Laramie. Miss Jane is a beautiful book which delivers a message that is both meditative and quietly powerful. Brad Watson relates a fictional account about a woman, Jane Chisolm, inspired by his real-life great aunt. He does so with a prose that is lyrical, elegant and soothing.
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