Allegra Goodman, Author . Dial $25 (344p) ISBN 978-0-385-33612-3
In another quiet but powerful novel from Goodman (Kaaterskill Falls
), a struggling cancer lab at Boston's Philpott Institute becomes the stage for its researchers' personalities and passions, and for the slippery definitions of freedom and...
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Allegra Goodman, Author . Razorbill $16.99 (280p) ISBN 978-1-59514-195-8
From Kaaterskill Falls
to Intuition
, Goodman's fiction proves that she can tackle big subjects with unobtrusively graceful and perceptive prose. Her first YA offering, a dystopian eco-fantasy in which a malevolent Corporation lulls North...
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Allegra Goodman, Author . Dial $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-385-34085-4
If any contemporary author deserves to wear the mantel of Jane Austen, it's Goodman, whose subtle, astute social comedies perfectly capture the quirks of human nature. This dazzling novel is Austen updated for the dot-com era, played out...
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Allegra Goodman, Author HarperCollins Publishers $16.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-06-015998-6
This exhilarating collection of 11 short stories marks the debut of a precocious 21-year-old Radcliffe College student. Most of Goodman's characters are observant Jews living in a believably rendered Oxford, England or Honolulu, Hawaii. While...
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Allegra Goodman, Author Dial Press $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-32389-5
The quiet wisdom expressed in this novel and the clear lucidity of its prose would make it a remarkable achievement for any writer. What is perhaps most impressive here is that its author (who wrote the praised The Family Markowitz) is only in her...
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Allegra Goodman, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-15321-2
Goodman's voice is fresh and distinctive as she limns a wry, funny, touching portrait of an American Jewish family in a brilliantly observed, lovingly rendered novel composed of interlocking stories. Rose Markowitz, stubborn, outspoken, kvetching, a
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Allegra Goodman, Author Dial Press $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-33416-7
Goodman's (Kaaterskill Falls) marvelous new novel involves a woman's tragicomic search for spiritual meaning, a journey as physically peripatetic as it is emotionally migratory. As always, the key to enjoying Goodman's fiction is gradual immersion....
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Allegra Goodman. Dial, $27 (340p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6987-3
Goodman (The Cookbook Collector) probes the meaning and place of art in contemporary culture in her intricate and empathic novel. When artist and actor Collin is first drawn to Nina in a Harvard Square bar, he has no idea that the attractive young...
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Allegra Goodman, Author, Jenna Stern, Read by , read by Jenna Stern. Random House Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-2524-7
There are more rats than those in the cages of the Massachusetts research laboratory at the center of Goodman's novel. Postdoctoral researcher Cliff may have fudged his amazing tumor-reducing results while his bosses are all too eager to...
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Allegra Goodman. Dial, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-44781-9
A competitive rock climber comes of age at the turn of the 21st century in the bracing latest from Goodman (The Chalk Artist). Sam lives with her financially struggling mom, Courtney, and younger half-brother, Noah, somewhere in New England. She...
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Allegra Goodman. Dial, $28.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-593-73008-9
Goodman (Sam) delivers an engrossing if overlong account of French noblewoman Marguerite de la Rocque de Roberval (1515–1542), who lived to tell the tale of her solitary exile on an island off the coast of New France. Orphaned by age three,...
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