THE GILDED EDGE—NOW IN PAPERBACK!

Astonishingly well written, painstakingly researched, and set in the evocative locations of earthquake-ravaged San Francisco and the Monterey Peninsula, the true story of two women—a wife and a poet—who learn the high price of sexual and artistic freedom in a vivid depiction of the debauchery of the late Gilded Age.

Nora May French and Carrie Sterling arrive at Carmel-by-the-Sea at the turn of the twentieth century with dramatically different ambitions. Nora, a stunning, brilliant, impulsive writer in her early twenties, seeks artistic recognition and bohemian refuge among the most celebrated counterculturalists of the era. Carrie, long-suffering wife of real estate developer George Sterling, wants the opposite: a semblance of the stability she thought her advantageous marriage would offer.

For readers of Nathalia Holt, Denise Kiernan, and Sonia Purnell, this shocking history with a feminist bite is not to be missed.

BUYING INTO ENGLISH

Many developing countries have little choice but to “buy into English” as a path to ideological and material betterment.

Based on extensive fieldwork in Slovakia, Prendergast assembles a rich ethnographic study that records the thoughts, aspirations, and concerns of Slovak nationals, language instructors, journalists, and textbook authors who contend with the increasing importance of English to their rapidly evolving world.

LITERACY AND RACIAL JUSTICE

In anticipation of the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, Prendergast draws on a combination of insights from legal studies and literacy studies to interrogate contemporary multicultural literacy initiatives, thus providing a sound historical basis that informs current debates over affirmative action, school vouchers, reparations, and high-stakes standardized testing.

Winner: Modern Language Association Mina P. Shaughnessy Award; Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award; David Russell Award for Excellence in Research on the Teaching of English; Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition Outstanding Book Award.

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