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Binnie Kirshenbaum
A darkly comic novel with the moral power of Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader about love in the shadows of history.
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A poet who writes ribald sonnets, the queen of self-possession and the devastating comeback, Lila is used to men falling at her feet and into her bed. However, she’s perplexed…
A devastating, darkly comic story of a woman’s slide into depression and institutionalisation from a master of razor-edged literary humour.
Set in Brooklyn between the Eisenhower Era and the Age of Disco, this bittersweet novel tells the story of a mother and daughter, whose search for faith and love leads…
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Relates the story of a woman–aloof, rootless, married, Jewish, left- handed–who blithely breaks seven of the Ten Commandments as she searches for her roots and innocence. Reader’s Guide available.
A collection of short stories takes place in New York City, the former East Germany, and Virginia and is set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, the Kennedy era…
This is the story of Henry and me. I wish it had a different end, Sylvia Landsman begins what is, in part, the story of her ill-fated romance. Divorced, alone…
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From the master of razor-edged literary humor comes a devastating, laugh-out-loud funny story of a writer’s slide into depression and institutionalization.
