Anderson Books

FLAW IN THE TAPESTRY is a captivating read. I found myself unable to put the book down for long. It is well written with an easy flow. The reader is instantly part of the bond of love that links Annie, Tessa and Ruth. The three women represent three generations that overcome and persevere over the obstacles that we can all relate to.

If you are looking for a good book to escape into; this is the one. I personally loved the metaphor about weaving a deliberate flaw into the tapestry . The simple fact is that life isn't perfect. What we do with those imperfections is the core that defines who we are.

This is Ms Anderson's second novel and I am quickly becoming a fan. Well done.

The central characters in Flaw in the Tapestry are three generations of uncommon women. Annie Bertman has what most women would view as a storybook marriage. Her children are accomplished, living productive, stable lives. She's successful in her career as a freelance writer, and her husband is an OB/GYN practitioner who loves her devotedly after 37 years of marriage. At age 62 she's still healthy, fit, and attractive. Annie has never dreamed of having an affair, until she meets a handsome artist at the fitness center. Everything she ever valued -- home, family, husband -- has been safely
compartmentalized until Mark Trianos becomes her lover.

Annie's mother, Ruth Schaeffer, is 87 years old and a role model for her family. This lively widow and retired teacher enjoys a wide circle of friends, varied interests and social activities. She stays mentally and physically active. Ruth loves the metaphorical in life and is creating her
granddaughter a needlepoint tapestry with a deliberate flaw in its border. Life, after all, is flawed. Humans are flawed. Only God is perfect. The tapestry represents Ruth's metaphorical message for her granddaughter.

Annie's daughter Tessa is a lawyer juggling family and work with long commutes into the city by train. Her long term plan is to make partner at the small but prestigious law firm where she works. Both Tessa and her husband are in their second marriages. Both are financially successful, sharing household chores and childcare duties for two children. When an
unplanned pregnancy threatens Tessa's career plans, she considers abortion as an option despite her husband's objection.

This is a touching and realistic tale of three strong women, their trials and triumphs, and the men who love them. Each woman struggles with age related issues and personal views of what life should be. Through good times and bad, one constant remains: their love and devotion to each other. Like all good literary fiction, Flaw in the Tapestry has the clear ring of truth to it. It's a thoroughly engrossing read.

This contains Nahuatl, some Spanish translations, and all translated to English. It is very useful for me as examples of the survivors of Toltec Moral behaviour.

Many scholars such as Garibay and Miguel Leon-Portillo praise Sahagun's works as one of the primary sources for pre-columbian knowledge and without a doubt this books relates the rethoric and ancient Mexican thinking in a fabulous way. It includes the original text in Nahuatl and an English translation.

Nathalie F Anderson is a great poet. Her language is rich, but unpretentious, full of meaning, but light and accessible. And, what is most important, her poems are most relevant. Buy this book, it's got a very reasonable price for all the treasures it contains.

Nathalie Anderson's beautifully-textured poems are a combination of fine writing, wry humor and serious subject matter.

everyone in our house loves this book. Fun for the kids...AND informative for the adults. GREAT for any collection!!!

This book was really neat! Any NASCAR fan of any age will enjoy this book!

Anyone who has read Anderson's wonderful autobiography ('My Thirty Years' War,' 'The Fiery Fountains,' 'The Strange Necessity,' all sadly now out of print) must read this novel -- it has the same ebullient, erudite tone and the same passion for life. Many of the characters' names are thinly-veiled pseudonyms for the real people in Anderson's life, and Mathilda Hills fills in the blanks in her long introduction which explains how she came to find this manuscript. This is a priceless piece of Modernist history and a great lesbian love story, but I think it will be appreciated best by those already familiar with Anderson, founder of 'The Little Review,' and her personal history.

Much thanks to Mathilda Hills for bringing this story to us! This beautiful and lyric love story is only heightened by the biographical information Hills provides. I hope the publisher will eventually provide a paperback edition, so more people would be enticed to read this stunning tale.

It is the centennial of the birth of one of America's visionary artists, whose fame continues to expand beyond his Mississippi home. Walter Anderson has never before had a full biography, but now University Press of Mississippi has brought out _Fortune's Favorite Child: The Uneasy Life of Walter Anderson_ by Christopher Maurer. It will be treasured by those who love Anderson's vision shown in his thousands of prints and watercolors, as well as his murals. It is certainly true that Anderson had an uneasy life as detailed here in full, but also an extraordinarily productive one. The biography cannot explain the idiosyncratic genius which inhabits his pictures; nothing can do that. But it does allow us to appreciate the way in which a talented man could triumph over enormous difficulties, not the least of which was a serious mental illness which prevented normal or reliable work habits or relationships with others.

Anderson was born in 1903, in the garden district of New Orleans, one of the big cities he would return to repeatedly, although his sphere of expression was almost always wilderness or rural areas. He was schooled in art in New York and Philadelphia, and during some of the time he was at school, his family set up a fledgling business in Ocean Springs. Shearwater Pottery, set on land acquired by his mother and financed by his father, was a real family endeavor, with his brothers throwing and designing pots, mother decorating them and worrying over aesthetics, and father balancing the books and promoting the business. Once Anderson returned, he took part in the effort, decorating plates and designing figurines. Shearwater was to become a mainstay in his life, and a financial anchor; he never made much money from it, but he didn't need much money for his unconventional way of living, and he was singularly uninterested in profiting from his artwork. He had an unconventional marriage with many separations and general unhappiness. Nonetheless, his wife knew better than others how to appreciate him, even in the beginning: "He isn't just gifted or talented. He really is an artist, a genius," she wrote to one of his psychiatrists. His attacks on others, and upon himself (with cutting and burning), fueled by delusions and paranoia, would land him into one psychiatric ward after another. He took long trips by bicycle all over the country, and even spent time in China to study murals there, always sleeping rough and traveling with no luxuries. His most famous excursions were of course his trips to Horn Island, the eight miles to which he would row with his watercolors and scanty supplies, spending weeks at a time, away from all humans and rejoicing in the neighbor animals he found.

Anderson died of cancer in 1965, during a hospitalization for a lung tumor, a hospitalization he smilingly admitted was the first one of his own volition. Only afterwards did his family start gathering up the huge amount of notes, sketches, and watercolors with which he had been consumed for a lifetime. But even they had no idea what they would find in the padlocked door of a little room that had been added to his cottage at Shearwater Pottery. When they pried open the door, they discovered that all the walls and the ceiling had been crammed with brilliant murals of sunrise, sunset, nighttime, and all the cranes, fish, pelicans, and other creatures that had been subjects of such intense lifetime study. It was just one more instance of his relentless motion to depict and to participate in nature for his own sake, realizing nature through art. The discovery of the room, now part of the Walter Anderson Museum in Ocean Springs, is the close of this satisfying, moving, and well-illustrated biography.

"The makers of great American watercolors -- Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, John Marin, Charles Demuth-- are a select few. Anderson is worthy of inclusion in that company... Here's this Mississippian whose light-struck pictures throb, as do [Van Gogh's], with furious, methodical ecstasy, and are as American as can be. Art poured from Anderson as it does from such unstoppable producers as Red Grooms and Frank Stella. Anderson was a natural."

This book is replete with Remington's night scenes. For the working artist/illustrator, this is the Bible of scenes depicting night and other low-light situations. As always, Remington's compositions are things of wonder.

This book is divided in parts.
In the first part you will find the biography of Remington and all his artwork
In the second, there are all the "The color of the night" paintings in big size with the description of each one.
As a bonus, there is a brief study of the technique that used Remington to paint these great paintings.
Great book about a great artist.

This is a Great book with alot of deep insight to freedom from addiction also to freedom in life.

I am free from addiction! This book explains in great detail how the POWER alluded to in the 12 steps ONLY comes from Jesus , and once you accept His most graceful redemption, there is NO need to call yourself addicted anymore! Please get out of the SIN (sitting in negativity) and rejoice in His holy name. I've studied and read, '2 Tracks One Goal', Dick B 'Akron Genesis of AA'., 'The Good Book and the Big Book'.... NO other book spells out how to get free FROM addiction! Not information ABOUT addiction, not a man-made 'design' for living, not a program to modify behavior... a TRANSLATION into a new being. (II Cor 5:17) and (1 Sam 10:6). This masterpiece shows all Bible references to the "program"... whence the essence. If you are serious about recovery, this is the best book (besides the Word of God) I've read! Thank you authors for your obedience to His Word. My fellow recoveries.... I pray you will pick this up and open your heart to God's Words. I understand why they now have a workbook based upon this book! It is a lifelong mission to fully apply the precepts explained in this book into one's life. Hallelujah! Praise and Glory to God!

The essays in this charming book bring up the most personal of thoughts, memories and experiences and one is moved to say, "I know just what she means...."

A great gift for someone who needs a bit of a pat or a hug -

Reading Dickie Anderson's collection of essays about life in Amelia Island, is as refreshing as a long stroll down a friendly Florida beach. From the first piece entitled "Garden of Eden" to the last one called "Destination Our House," Dickey has been able to capture the delightfully, breezy lifestyle her community enjoys. FROM THE PORCH:SHARE THE CHARM OF ISLAND LIVING is thoughtful, joyful, playful and thought-provoking. Ms. Anderson is able to take the reader down garden paths and grocery aisles and to the beach for some Yoga lessons. All of her "gentle insights" can renew the spirit and enlighten the soul. Great reading!

This book shows the true courage of a person who had to endure so much.

Anyone who has lost a loved one should read this book! Ms. Anderson has suffered the loss of her Husband and Son in a plane accident. Rather than wallowing in self pity, or committing a contemplated suicide, Ms Anderson describes the journey that she went through in order to survive and continue living.

The faith that she has sustained her. Her experiences in calling upon this faith may be able to assist countless others to survive similar losses.

If you are suffering from the unexpected loss of a loved one, or if someone you know is suffering, this book will be a significant aid in easing that suffering.