The Women at the Well - Bauer, Grace
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“In The Women at the Well, Bauer sings out ofsilent alternative stories of the Biblical women shefirst encountered as a schoolgirl listening to thenuns. Wry humor is only one element of Bauer’silluminating re-vision as she inhabits her womenin the longing, sassiness, rebellion, compassion,wavering, and triumph. She lets them like eachother—Rachel and Leah reconcile—and letsthem relish their bodies. Mary complains aboutnever ‘knowing pleasure.’ She creates The ProdigalDaughter who, like Woolf ’s Judith Shakespeare,experiences a vastly different fate from her malecounterpart’s. But unlike poor…mehr

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“In The Women at the Well, Bauer sings out ofsilent alternative stories of the Biblical women shefirst encountered as a schoolgirl listening to thenuns. Wry humor is only one element of Bauer’silluminating re-vision as she inhabits her womenin the longing, sassiness, rebellion, compassion,wavering, and triumph. She lets them like eachother—Rachel and Leah reconcile—and letsthem relish their bodies. Mary complains aboutnever ‘knowing pleasure.’ She creates The ProdigalDaughter who, like Woolf ’s Judith Shakespeare,experiences a vastly different fate from her malecounterpart’s. But unlike poor Judith, this daughtersurvives and bears her own girl child . . . I had myfavorites among Bauer’s women, and you will,too. Whoever they are, the Bible will never be thesame.”—Carole Simmons Oles
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Grace Bauer is the author of Retreats & Recognitions, Beholding Eye, and The Women At The Well, as well as three chapbooks of poems. She is also co-editor, withJulie Kane, of Umpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum:Critical and Creative Responses to Everette Maddox. Herpoems, stories, and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals. A native of Pennsylvania, she currently lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA where she is a professor of English, creative writing, and women’s studies at the University of Nebraska, USA.