Doris Grumbach, Author W. W. Norton & Company $22 (298p) ISBN 978-0-393-03541-4
When novelist and literary critic Grumbach published her memoir Coming into the End Zone in 1991, it was cause for celebration--for her and for readers educated and inspired by her year of reflections on turning 70 and the process of what she here...
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Doris Grumbach, Author W. W. Norton & Company $12 (304p) ISBN 978-0-393-31320-8
This latest is writer, critic and NPR contributor Grumbach's (Coming into the End Zone) reflections on her life in Maine. (June)
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Doris Grumbach, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $16.3 (200p) ISBN 978-0-02-546330-1
Initially restrained, this story of three young women coming to maturity in New York City in the 1930s soon becomes engrossing, as the characters quicken into attractive and sympathetic life. They meet at Barnardpretty, middle-class Minna; Liz, a...
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Doris Grumbach, Author Beacon Press (MA) $15 (114p) ISBN 978-0-8070-7060-4
This quiet, elegantly written memoir by critic, novelist and essayist Grumbach ( Coming into the End Zone ) sensitively depicts the mingled pleasure and privation of turning one's back on the world. In the winter of 1993, with her companion away on...
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Doris Grumbach, Author W. W. Norton & Company $22 (248p) ISBN 978-0-393-03770-8
The chasm between appearance and reality, between expectations and disillusionment, is the theme of Grumbach's latest novel, whose dark message emerges from the unfulfilled sexual identities of her four characters. None of the four preadolescent...
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Doris Grumbach, Author Beacon Press (MA) $18 (126p) ISBN 978-0-8070-7084-0
More than half a century ago, novelist and essayist Grumbach (Coming into the End Zone, etc.) experienced an overwhelming ""feeling of peace so intense that it seemed to expand into ineffable joy."" In that fleeting moment, she felt the presence of...
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Doris Grumbach, Author, Doris Grubmach, Author W. W. Norton & Company $10.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-30944-7
Having turned 70 in 1989, novelist and critic Grumbach sets out in this perfectly poised journal of that year to find ``a positive value in living so long.'' (Feb.)
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Doris Grumbach, Author Beacon Press (MA) $17 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8070-7088-8
A day spent puttering about with a 77-year-old retiree living on the coast of Maine doesn't promise high adventure. Reality turns out quite differently. Grumbach has spent her adult life in the world of books and writers as a novelist and critic;...
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Doris Grumbach, Author Beacon Press (MA) $22 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8070-7222-6
""We see only what we look for in need,"" notes novelist and memoirist Grumbach, quoting Roger Fry at the end of this new collection of meditations on, among other things, turning 80. While Fry was commenting on the human ability to experience art,...
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