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What we're writing... Hallie introduces a character
I don’t want to make Helen a fraud or a fool. Or silly or clownish. She believes she’s helping people who are dealing with loss reach that most elusive of goals: closure.
So, I’m working and reworking paragraphs that introduce Helen to the reader, trying to take a page from the authors who’ve introduced memorable characters in the pages of their mysteries.
Take Jane Marple, for example. Here’s how Agatha Christie described her in the “The Tuesday Night Club,” the 1927 short story in which she was first introduced:
Miss Marple wore a black brocade dress, very much pinched in around the waist. Mechlin lace was arranged in a cascade down the front of the bodice. She had on black lace mittens, and a black lace cap surmounted the piled-up masses of her snowy hair. She was knittin•
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The Russian Winter by DAPHNE KALOTAY is a luminous debut novel is a fabulous read, full of Soviet past and modern-day intrigue, all seen through the eyes of a retired ballerina and a young graduate student.
Kalotay makes a powerful debut with a novel about a Soviet-era prima ballerina, now retired and living in Boston, who confronts her past as she puts up for auction (proceeds to be donated to the Boston Ballet) the jewelry she took with her when she left her husband and defected. Nina "The Butterfly" Revskaya, 79, reveals little about the past to curious auction house representative Drew Brooks as he peruses her cache of exquisite jewelry.
Kalotay is a Boston author of the critically acclaimed collection Calamity and Other Stories, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Story Prize. Kalotay has received fellowships from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. She has taught creative writing at Middlebury College, Boston University
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