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23 produkter
Botticelli Blue Skies
An American in Florence
Inbunden, 2002
327 kr
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When writer Merrill John Gerber is invited to join her husband, a history professor, as he takes a class of American college students in Florence, Italy, she feels terrified at the idea of leaving her comforts, her friends, and her aged mother in California. Her husband tries to assure her that her …
You are Always Safe with Me
E-bok, 2013
107 kr
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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, …
Antique Man
E-bok, 2012
176 kr
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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 …
Honeymoon
E-bok, 2012
176 kr
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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.
Lady with the Moving Parts
E-bok, 2012
176 kr
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A moving, powerful story of women exchanging secrets and sexual advice in an encounter group.
Chattering Man
E-bok, 2013
107 kr
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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.
Glimmering Girls
E-bok, 2013
107 kr
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Glimmering Girls tells the story of three extraordinary American women during a time of sexual and cultural repression. Francie and her friends Liz and Amanda are college students, coming of age intellectually, emotionally, and physically in a setting where men were forbidden entry to women’s dorm …
Old Mother, Little Cat
E-bok, 2013
99 kr
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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).
King of the World
E-bok, 2012
171 kr
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This shattering novel about wife and child abuse is a work of art that haunts the reader''s memory. Merrill Joan Gerber reveals the love affair of Ginny and her sensitive but horribly destructive lover, Michael. The pair adopts a child that Michael both loves and abuses.
This Old Heart of Mine
E-bok, 2012
176 kr
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Merrill Joan Gerber holds the record of having sold more short stories to Redbook Magazine than any other writer. This selection of twenty-five linked tales, published in Redbook from 1964 to 1991, chronicles the passionate (domestic) adventures of Janet, Danny and their three daughters.
Anna in the Afterlife
E-bok, 2012
176 kr
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"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 …
Now Molly Knows
E-bok, 2012
176 kr
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Now Molly Knows is a novel about a girl''s sexual discovery, from early teens and high school through college and on up into marriage. It''s set in the American fifties.
Stop Here, My Friend: Stories
E-bok, 2012
176 kr
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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.
Kingdom of Brooklyn
E-bok, 2012
176 kr
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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, …
This is a Voice from Your Past
E-bok, 2012
172 kr
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"Every woman gets a call like this sooner or later. The phone rings, a man says: ''This is a voice from your past.''" The opening of the compelling title story of Merrill Joan Gerber''s collection sets the tone for each of the thirteen remarkable pieces therein, two of them previously unpublished. …
Hysterectomy Waltz
E-bok, 2013
176 kr
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"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 Ozick Imagine being told before the age of forty that …
Botticelli Blue Skies
E-bok, 2014
100 kr
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Gerber heads to Florence with her husband, a history professor taking a group of students. She goes in nervous, not knowing any Italian, but gradually starts to learn her way around Florence and other cities in Italy.
Someone Should Know This Story
E-bok, 2026
128 kr
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"e;'Someone Should Know This Story' is both the name of this book and the wish of my heart,"e; 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 …
Gut Feelings
A Writer's Truths and Minute Inventions
Inbunden, 2003
304 kr
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In these highly personal essays and powerful tales that verge on memoir, Merrill Joan Gerber opens to us her life and work as a writer. She is candid and unflinching in revealing the truths and inventions of a writer's vision and the use of life as the raw material of art. Her personal essays range …
Glimmering Girls
A Novel of the Fifties
Inbunden, 2005
330 kr
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Glimmering Girls tells the story of three extraordinary American women during a time of sexual and cultural repression. Francie and her friends Liz and Amanda are college students, coming of age intellectually, emotionally, and physically in a setting where men were forbidden entry to women's dorm …
