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Anne Roiphe
Coming of age on Park Avenue in the 1950s, Anne Roiphe had an adolescence entrenched in privilege, petticoats, and social rules. Young women at the time were expected to give…
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In poignant flashes of everyday moments and memories, Roiphe tells an unflinching and unsentimental story of widowhood’s stupefying disquiet, of surviving love and living on.– Publishers Weekly.
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This poignant memoir of new widowhood is an elegant pastiche, not of grief but of renewal. Roiphe writes her way into the unknown world of life after love, capturing the…
Headed into midlife, biologist Leah takes leave from her job to spend the winter at her beach house. She meets Ollie, a high school teacher, and they fall in love…
From the acclaimed author of Fruitful comes a novel of the love between a mother and daughter. Annie Johnson has worked hard to raise her daughter, Andrea. She is shocked…
A writer of women’s lives for over thirty years, Roiphe turns her keen eye and graceful prose to the Bible and the stories of the Matriarchs–Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah…
Ballad of the Black and Blue Mindaweaves stories of psychoanaylsts and their patients against the bright-lights backdrop of their relentless city, New York. Anne Roiphe’s characters are cutters and thieves…
This poignant memoir of new widowhood is an elegant pastiche not of grief, but of renewal. Roiphe writes her way into the unknown world of life after love, capturing the…
Anne Richardson Roiphe
What does it mean to love a character in a book? Many of us do. Many of us always have. These loves are not the subject of late-night phone conversations…
This captivating account of the author’s coming-of-age in 1940s New York City relates Roiphe’s experiences growing up in a wealthy Jewish home with a family who had money, status, and…
