To Dance with the White Dog

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Pocket Books, 1993 - Fiction - 239 pages
Tie into the CBS-TV Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation starring Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn. Bittersweet family drama at its finest, this brilliantly realized novel of life, loss, mystery and hope has garnered exceptional critical praise. Terry Kay is simply a miraculous writer.--Anne Rivers Siddons.

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Section 1
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Section 2
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Section 3
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About the author (1993)

Terry Kay was born February 10, 1938 in Royston, Georgia. He grew up there and became a well-known novelist. Perhaps his most well-known book is To Dance with the White Dog, which was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy in 1983. He is also the author of such best-selling works as Dark Thirty, Shadow Song, After Eli, and The Runaway, which was adapted for the screen. He won an Emmy for his screenplay Run Down the Rabbit. Kay's novel The Valley of Light won the 2004 Townsend Prize for Fiction and was also adapted for the screen. He won the 1981 Georgia Author of the Year Award for After Eli, and the Southeastern Library Association named him Outstanding Author of the Year in 1991 for To Dance with the White Dog. He published The Book of Marie in 2007. His last book, The Forever Wish of Middy Sweet, was published in August 2020. Terry Kay died on December 12, 2020 at the age of 82. Jane Rosenman served as an Executive Editor at Houghton Mifflin, Scribner Publishing, and St. Martin¿s Press. She was also Editorial Director of Washington Square Press. Since 2011, she has worked full-time as an independent editor. During her in-house career, she edited fiction writers such as Andrea Barrett, Elinor Lipman, Howard Norman, and Meg Wolitzer. Jane has also edited in the memoir category. At Scribner she published Alice Sebold¿s Lucky and more recently worked on Mira Bartok¿s National Book Critic Circle Award winning The Memory Palace before its sale to The Free Press.

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