This story, like so many in the book, gathers momentum through its rich associations.
In "The Giver" and her new book, "Gathering Blue," Lowry imagines very different dystopias.
As Ellia's conversation with the book gathered momentum, she wanted to involve others, but had qualms.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet As Ellia's conversation with the book gathered momentum, she wanted to involve others, but had qualms.
Rowland's book gathers the impressions of nearly two millennia's worth of visitors to the site, including Mozart, Dickens, Mark Twain, Hirohito, and Hillary Clinton, who, at a G7 summit in Naples, opted out of a First Ladies' excursion to Herculaneum, saying that only Pompeii would do.
Harrison writes, "This book gathered dust for years... until the Feminist Press decided to publish it (but not, apparently, to edit it)." She then quotes "an editor with a distinguished publishing house" who rejected what Harrison assumes was the same book that the Feminist Press published.
Jeff Akins Highland, N.Y., Dec. 22, 2008 To the Editor: Perhaps instead of accommodating the industry's demand that we upgrade to digital TV, many of us will give up in frustration and entertain ourselves the way our World War II-era forebears did — with a good book, gathered around a piano or electronic keyboard, or with some board games.
It was almost because of the lack of nuance and detail, because of the way Jacqueline Susann's obsessions, trials, anxieties, and, above all, I think, anger, spring so unmediated on to the page, that the book gathered the momentum it did, and still has today.
This book gathers important recent findings on rapid penetration into granular materials from prominent research groups in the United States and Europe, which will serve as a reference framework for future research in this area.
