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`Cloud Chamber,' `Sees Behind Trees' are first-rate followups for author Dorris // Two for two
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Michael Dorris laughs about the lengthy gap between his acclaimed
first novel, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1987), and his second,
which is due to hit bookstores next month.
It's not that he hasn't been busy in the interim. Dorris has
published kids' books, essays, short stories and nonfiction.
"I guess my philosophy," he jokes, "was to keep doing `firsts' .
. . first novel, first children's book, first essays. That way I'd
always be `promising.' "
He smiles. "When you finally do something a second time, then
you've failed your promise. I finally ran out of things to do
first."
Always ...
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At Nineteen On L'Isle D'Oleron With the Vincents
Magazine article from: Antigonish Review
; The children spill from the car like mackerels sluiced from a bucket, sheened from back-seat heat. Danielle schools her fingerlings across the road, plants in sand their water-pale feet. She peels off coral culottes, yellow tops; Benoit and Lucie, their sturdy arms raised bend and sway like
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Summer Mortality of Crassostrea gigas (thunberg) in relation to environmental rearing conditions.(Abstract)
Magazine article from: Journal of Shellfish Research
; ...oyster production region of Marennes-Oleron (France). Four oyster rearing conditions...or the overstocking in the Marennes-Oleron Bay, but did not discriminated among...WORDS: Crassostrea gigas, Marennes-Oleron Bay, marine ecosystem, sediment, hydrology...
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The Gray-Greening of an Oyster
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Atlantic over tidal flats protected by Oleron Island, is where France's oysters start...Mediterranean. But special conditions around Oleron Island, particularly the clay-bottomed...fines de claires except from Marennes and Oleron," he declared. "Anything else with...
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Oyster moments
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...I was interested to see oysters from Oleron being sold in a market in the Lot last...because my family lived on the He d'Oleron, off La Rochelle, until expelled, along...towards the end of the 17th century. (Oleron is known not only for the number and quality...
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Studies from X. Bertin et al have provided new data on continental shelf research.(Report)
Newspaper article from: Ecology, Environment & Conservation
; ...transport at a high-energy dissipative beach (St. Trojan, SW Oleron Island, France), over the period 1997-2006, scientists...at a high-energy dissipative beach: St. Trojan beach, SW Oleron Island, France. Continental Shelf Research, 2008;28(10...
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Triple header. (market).
Magazine article from: Interior Design
; ...One can almost piece together a narrative from 09:2, an artfully modified plan of Le Chateau d'Oleron, a town on the island of Oleron. Tarkowski's arresting designs are art in themselves, no need for frames. 33-00 47th Avenue, Long...
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Sunken French Trawler's Boss Loses 7 Family Members
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire
; ...Presse quoted local officials in La Rochelle facing the Island of Oleron as saying that among the dead were two daughters of Riou's...four missing after Essor sank two kilometers off the Island of Oleron in a festival held each year to collect fund for the families...
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Answers to Correspondents: A show of fortitude.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...sandbank half way between the islands of Aix and St Denis d'Oleron in the Bay of Biscay, near La Rochelle off the South-West...fortification largely out of date. Forts built on Aix and St Denis d'Oleron could cross fire and were sufficient to protect access to the...
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Houllier's happy he learned his lesson.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...spent four days with friends in the south of France and his doctors have encouraged him to get away to his house on Ile d'Oleron as often as possible - his enthusiasm for his team has never been more evident. He said: 'I will definitely force myself...
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At Least Five Drown in Trawler Sinking in France
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire
; ...of sea accidents. Forty-two people have been rescued by the end of the day from the water two kilometers off the Island of Oleron, but it is still not known how many people were on the trawler "Essor" when it sank in the middle of this afternoon, local...
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