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  • Someone Should Know This Story

    de Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    "'Someone Should Know This Story' is both the name of this book and the wish of my heart," writes Merrill Joan Gerber in the introduction to this retrospective collection of twenty-five stories written over a period of four decades, many of which won awards and appeared in widely read periodicals such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Redbook, and Mademoiselle.Gerber takes her teacher Andrew Lytle ... Leer más

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  • Revelation at the Food Bank

    de Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    These powerful essays share critical moments of a writer's life: scenes from sixty years of passionate married love; suicides faced and suicide contemplated; trauma at the DMV; a night lost searching for a harpsichord in the mountains of Florence, Italy; the tale of a beloved cousin whose plane is shot down by Japanese Zeros; and a precious friendship between two women writers derailed by the ... Leer más

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  • Old Mother, Little Cat

    de Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    Old Mother, Little Cat is a highly readable memoir of Gerber’s mother’s decline in health and how their relationship grew during this time, blended in with Gerber’s finding a kitten and her developing relationship with Max (the name she gives the kitten). ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Anna in the Afterlife

    de Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    "Once her dying got underway, Anna could not really complain about the way the process moved along." So begins this deftly amusing, wryly perceptive look at the dying of a feisty, funny ninety-year old woman. During the four days between her death and her burial --and with the unique perception she is allowed prior to her funeral--Anna discovers certain secrets her daughters have hidden from her. ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Stop Here, My Friend: Stories

    de Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    Series series Dzanc rEprint Series
    Fifteen stories previously published in The New Yorker, Mademoiselle, Redbook, and The Sewanee Review, Gerber's work discovers her roots in a background predominantly Jewish. Her female look at daily lives is a nice placement alongside a Philip Roth. ... Leer más

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  • Chattering Man

    de Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    Spanning the continent from Brooklyn and Miami to Pasadena and Berkeley, these stories and the characters who people them are as real as our own lives, and the reader is drawn into the essence of life in all its complexity and wonder. ... Leer más

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  • You are Always Safe with Me

    de Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    In this powerful love story that takes place on a Turkish sailing vessel, Lily, a professor at a Florida college, finds herself required to be the companion of her newly widowed mother as they take a cruise along the Turkish coastline on a small sailing ketch. Expecting to endure, though not enjoy, this trip among her mother’s friends, Lily instead finds herself falling in love with Izak, the ... Leer más

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  • Honeymoon

    de Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    This exceptional book of short stories, chosen for inclusion in the prestigious Illinois Short Fiction Series, contains Gerber's powerful tale "I Don't Believe This," which won an O. Henry Award. ... Leer más

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  • The Hysterectomy Waltz

    de Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    "It's truly powerful, and acrid, and barbed, and filled with wonderful, and unexpected, turns of phrase and above all it's shocking in its directness and understated anger and sadness and fear… it's an amazing piece of writing."-Cynthia OzickImagine being told before the age of forty that because you have an ovarian cyst, the surgeon wants to take out the "whole kit and caboodle." Imagine being ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Lady with the Moving Parts

    de Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    A moving, powerful story of women exchanging secrets and sexual advice in an encounter group. ... Leer más

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  • An Antique Man

    de Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    This is the poignant story of a loving, gentle man, "antique" by virtue, "an antique man" by profession. It is the story of his lingering death, of his transcendent courage, of the agony and solitude of those who must watch-his wife and two daughters. It is everyone's story in that it tells in specific and particular terms the general human experience of love and loss, suffering and death. It is ... Leer más

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  • The Kingdom of Brooklyn

    de Merrill Joan Gerber ...
    Winner of the Ribalow Prize from Hadassah Magazine, Merrill Joan Gerber superbly evokes an anguished child's faltering steps toward consciousness... Gerber has written often-and grippingly-of tormented families… but never as daringly as here."In this brutally candid, semiautobiographical novel, Gerber again (as in King of the World) corrosively delineates the heinous abuses inflicted in the name ... Leer más

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