Crows over a Wheatfield

by Paula Sharp

• ISBN13: 9780671011642
• ISBN10: 0671011642
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: Washington Square Press

Summary

Timely, provocative, and fine-tuned emotionally--written with an insider's knowledge of the legal system--this new novel by the author of "The Woman Who Was Not All There" tells a tautly dramatic, emotionally overwhelming story about how domestic violence destroys families.

Author Biography

Paula Sharp is the author of Lost in Jersey City, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 1993; The Woman Who Was Not All There, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and winner of the Quality Paperback Book Club New Voice Award; and the critically acclaimed short story collection, The Imposter, which received the Wisconsin Library Association Bantam Award. She is a translator of Latin American contemporary fiction, including Antonio Skármeta's novel, The Insurrection. Her short stories have been anthologized in New Stories from the South: the Year's Best, and she has received the New Jersey State Council Distinguished Artist Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. A graduate of Columbia University Law School, she practices in New York.