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Quit Monks or Die!

Quit Monks or Die!( )
Author: Kumin, Maxine
ISBN:978-1-885266-77-4
Publication Date:Aug 1999
Publisher:Red Hen Press
Imprint:Story Line Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $19.95
Book Description:

Set in a small town that houses little more than a research lab and an engineering school, the body of the lab's director is found in a pit used for maternal deprivation experiments with monkeys. A few days later, a graduate student is found murdered as well. Are these deaths connected? And who's responsible for these murders? Written by one of America's greatest poets, this mystery is a scathing social commentary with a criminal twist. Maxine Kumin is the author of poetry, novels,...
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Book Details
Pages:192
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Thrillers / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5 x 7 x 0.8 Inches
Book Weight:0.9 Pounds
Author Biography
Kumin, Maxine (Author)
Maxine Kumin was born in Philadelphia in 1925. She received a BA and a MA from Radcliffe College. In the 1950s, she enrolled in a poetry writing course at the Boston Center for Adult Education. The course led to the publication of poems in Harper's and The New Yorker. Her first collection of poems, Halfway, was published in 1961. Her other poetry collections include Where I Live: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010, Still to Mow, and And Short the Season. She received several awards including the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Robert Frost Medal, and the Pulitzer Prize for Up Country: Poems of New England. She also wrote four novels, short stories, a memoir entitled Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery, essay collections, and children's books. She died of natural causes on February 6, 2014 at the age of 88.

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