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  • The Ladies

    A Novel

    by Doris Grumbach ...
    A tender and imaginative retelling of the adventures of two of history's most compelling womenIn 1778 Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby left County Kilkenny for Wales to live together as a married couple. Both well born, highly educated Irish women, the Ladies of Llangollen, as they came to be known, defied all eighteenth-century social convention and spent half a century together in a loving ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fifty Days of Solitude

    A Memoir

    by Doris Grumbach ...
    A New York Times Notable Book: To truly understand herself, Doris Grumbach embraces solitudeWith a busy career as a novelist, essayist, reviewer, and bookstore owner, Doris Grumbach has little opportunity to be alone. However, after seventy-five years on the planet, she finally has her chance: Her partner has departed for an extended book-buying trip, and Grumbach has been given fifty days to ... Read more

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  • Coming into the End Zone

    A Memoir

    by Doris Grumbach ...
    A New York Times Notable Book: One woman's search for the value of a long lifeWith the advent of her seventieth birthday, many changes have beset Doris Grumbach: the rapidly accelerating speed of the world around her, the premature deaths of her younger friends, her own increasing infirmities, and her move from cosmopolitan Washington, DC, to the calm of the Maine coast. Coming into the End Zone ... Read more

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  • The Collected Novels Volume Two

    The Missing Person, The Magician's Girl, and The Book of Knowledge

    by Doris Grumbach ...
    Three brilliant works of fiction from a feminist and lesbian literary icon who was "acutely sensitive to the quiet hum of everyday living" ( Ms.).The Missing Person: Legendary movie star Franny Fuller captured the imaginations of audiences, men, and her biographer, Mary Maguire. But what does the glamour hide? This is the story of how a girl from Utica, New York, transformed into a Hollywood ... Read more

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  • The Collected Memoirs Volume One

    Fifty Days of Solitude, The Pleasure of Their Company, and Extra Innings

    by Doris Grumbach ...
    Three memoirs about isolation, aging, and death from an author whose "private self is as intelligent and generous as her public persona" ( Publishers Weekly).Fifty Days of Solitude: Faced with a rare opportunity to experiment with true solitude, Doris Grumbach decided to live in her coastal Maine home without speaking to anyone for fifty days. A New York Times Notable Book, the result is a "quiet, ... Read more

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  • Chamber Music

    A Novel

    by Doris Grumbach ...
    In her later years, a woman reflects on her marriage, her stifled passions, and her lifeAt age ninety, Caroline Maclaren, widow of the prominent composer Robert Maclaren, finally decides to tell her own story. "Perhaps the time was not right to do it before," she remarks. But now she takes pen to paper, reliving her sheltered girlhood, her chilly marriage to a brilliant man, and—perhaps above all ... Read more

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  • Extra Innings

    A Memoir

    by Doris Grumbach ...
    A New York Times Notable Book: A moving glimpse of a life shrewdly examinedExtra Innings follows a year in the life of Doris Grumbach, beginning with the release of her previous memoir and journal, Coming into the End Zone, and revealing that the devoted essayist, novelist, and critic possesses as keen an eye in her seventies as she did when she wrote The Spoil of Flowers thirty years earlier ... Read more

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  • The Collected Novels Volume One

    Chamber Music and The Ladies

    by Doris Grumbach ...
    Two compelling works of fiction from a feminist literary icon hailed as "Virginia Woolf without the evasive prettifying" ( The New York Times).Chamber Music: Caroline Maclaren, the widow of a prominent composer, is finally going to tell her own life story. Taking pen to paper, she relives her sheltered youth, her chilly marriage to a brilliant man, and the melancholy solitude she experienced until ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Knowledge

    A Novel

    by Doris Grumbach ...
    Doris Grumbach's chilling look at the ways childhood experiences create transformative echoes that last throughout adulthood"I want to lead you all into the ocean to see if you will drown."During the summer of 1929 four children come together and change the course of their lives forever. Caleb and Kate Flowers live an isolated existence with their mother until Lionel Schwartz and Roslyn Hellman ... Read more

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  • The Magician's Girl

    A Novel

    by Doris Grumbach ...
    United by chance during their formative years at Barnard College, three women come of age in New YorkMinna Grant, Maud Noon, and Liz Becker are assigned as roommates during their freshman year at Barnard. The daughter of Communist parents, Liz makes a name for herself as a photographer. Minna, bright and pretty, is an avid swimmer with a promising academic future. And Maud, an unprepossessing ... Read more

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  • The Pleasure of Their Company

    A Memoir

    by Doris Grumbach ...
    A literary master looks ahead to her eightiesAs her eightieth birthday approaches, Doris Grumbach does not feel melancholy or saddened by the upcoming event, despite the loss of friends such as Kay Boyle and Dorothy Day—instead she takes it as an opportunity both to look backward and to grow. In this, her summer of unexpected content, Grumbach weaves the elegiac and the practical into a delightful ... Read more

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  • The Missing Person

    A Novel

    by Doris Grumbach ...
    The moving portrait of a woman stranded in her lonely fameFranny Fuller, blond, buxom, and beguiling, is the sort of woman who harnesses a power that can enthrall a nation. The legendary movie star has captured the imaginations of audiences, men, and columnist Mary Maguire, who is writing her biography. But just who is the human within the celebrity?This is the story of how Fanny Marker from Utica ... Read more

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