Elizabeth Berg, Author Random House Inc $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-43299-9
Because it is rendered with such clarity, authority and feeling, Berg's novel may cause readers to forget that this story of a woman's death from cancer is fiction. Berg's ( Durable Goods ) depiction of a sisterhood of women banding together to...
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Elizabeth Berg. Random House, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-525-50950-9
Mason, Mo., is the enchanting setting for a series of small but life-changing events in Berg’s winning novel (following The Story of Arthur Truluv). Lucille Howard teaches a baking class out of her home, filling some of her days now that her friend...
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Elizabeth Berg. Random House, $26 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6990-3
Arthur, the title character of the latest from Berg (Talk Before Sleep), does not enjoy living alone. Since his wife’s death, the best part of his daily routine is visiting the cemetery to eat lunch at her grave. The only other constants in his life
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Elizabeth Berg. Random, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9315-8
Berg’s (Tapestry of Fortunes) latest novel is about the iconoclastic French writer born as Aurore Dupin but better known as George Sand. The story begins in 1831, when Aurore leaves her loveless marriage for a bohemian life in Paris. Born to an...
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Elizabeth Berg. Random, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6865-4
In Berg's anemic new novel, John and Irene Marsh, though divorced for some time, remain adoring parents to daughter Sadie, who is about to start college. Both parents are now in their fifties and trying to sort out dating and relationships, with...
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Elizabeth Berg, Author Random House (NY) $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-679-45722-0
Leave it to Berg (What We Keep) to put a quirky, melancholic spin on the familiar story of an ordinary woman's quest for marriage and children. Sparkling and witty, this novel stars self-conscious dreamer Patty Murphy, a single, 36-year-old...
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Elizabeth Berg, Author Random House (NY) $19 (208p) ISBN 978-0-679-44943-0
""This place and I do not get along,"" says 12-year-old army brat Katie, the narrator of Berg's (Talk Before Sleep) painfully accurate tale of first love in the days of princess phones and circle pins. After moving to Missouri from Texas with her...
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Elizabeth Berg, Author Random House (NY) $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-44972-0
What (in Range of Motion) seemed an unerring touch for the emotional truths of women's lives proves imperfect after all for Berg, who misses the mark in this story of a wife and mother who runs away to find herself. In a plot device reminiscent of...
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Elizabeth Berg, Author Random House (NY) $17 (192p) ISBN 978-0-679-42208-2
In Berg's understated and promising fiction debut, a 12-year-old ``army brat'' comes to epitomize the quality that her father prizes: emotional durability. Narrator Katie lives on a Texas Army base with her 18-year-old sister and volatile father, an
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Elizabeth Berg, Author Random House (NY) $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-375-50099-2
""I don't like my mother. She's not a good person."" So declares Ginny Young on a trip to California to visit her mother, Marion, whom she hasn't seen in 35 years. Ginny is only making the trip as a favor to her sister, Sharla, who has called to say
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Elizabeth Berg, Author Island $6.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-22109-8
A friendship between two women turns tragic when one is diagnosed with breast cancer. (June)
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Elizabeth Berg, Author Random House Inc $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-50100-5
A middle-aged woman asks herself if there's life after divorce, then answers with a resounding yes in another of Berg's gentle tales of female self-discovery. When Samantha Morrow's husband, David, bails out after almost 20 years of marriage, Sam...
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Elizabeth Berg, Author . Pocket $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7434-1132-5
Oprah author Berg (her Open House
was a 2000 Book Club selection) turns in another sweet, unprepossessing and reassuringly predictable novel whose characters experience loneliness, loss and healing. "Odd-shaped," and with an "unfortunate
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Elizabeth Berg, Author . Random $25 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6864-7
A high school reunion and all of its attendant dramas is the backdrop of Berg's rose-tinted latest (after Home Safe
). For Dorothy Shauman, her 40th reunion is the chance to finally hook up with her high school crush. She prepares weeks in...
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Elizabeth Berg, Author . Random $25 (260p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6511-0
Love, work and the absence of both figure prominently in Berg’s latest, a rumination on loss and replenishment. Since novelist Helen’s husband, Dan, died a year ago, she’s been unable to write, and though her publisher and agent...
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Elizabeth Berg, Author . Random $23 (242p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6509-7
In this collection of mostly uplifting stories, Berg (Dream When You’re Feeling Blue
) explores the everyday challenges that women face. Whether teenaged or octogenarian, Berg’s heroines brave the emotional landmines underlying domestic...
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Elizabeth Berg, Author . Random $24.95 (276p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6510-3
A Rita Hayworth look-alike and her sister keep the home fires burning for young men going off to fight WWII in Berg's nostalgic tale of wartime romance and family sacrifice. Hoping her boyfriend, Julian, will propose before shipping out to the...
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Elizabeth Berg, Author . Random $16.95 (153p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6538-7
Berg's sweetly understated dramatization of the Nativity story casts Mary and Joseph as provincial teenagers who try to honor family tradition in spite of challenging circumstances. Alternating between the voices of the holy couple, Berg relates
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Elizabeth Berg, Author . Random $22.95 (187p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6161-7
A polio victim and her 13-year-old daughter work miracles from their Tupelo, Miss., home during the summer of 1964 in Berg's latest carefully calibrated domestic drama (after The Year of Pleasures
). Having contracted polio at 22 while pregnant,
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Elizabeth Berg, Author . Random $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6160-0
The familiar protagonist of Berg's 13th novel (after The Art of Mending
) is a Boston widow of several months, 55-year-old Betta Nolan, who fulfills her dying husband's dream of moving out to the Midwest and starting a new life. "It will
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Elizabeth Berg, Author . Random $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6159-4
Bestselling novelist Berg (Talk Before Sleep
; Open House
) explores memory, love and forgiveness in her flawed but moving 12th novel. At her annual family reunion, Laura Bartone, a 50-something "quilt artist," is forced to confront the...
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Elizabeth Berg, Author . Atria $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7434-1136-3
Husbands frequently tune out their spouses, but Frank Griffin makes valiant attempts to ignore Ellen, his wife of 10 years, when she announces she has a lover and wants a divorce in this endearing, undemanding novel by Berg (True to Form, etc.)....
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Elizabeth Berg, Author . Pocket $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7434-1134-9
Berg is the master of the soft-focus, nonconfrontational women's novel, as evidenced in her 2000 Oprah Book Club selection, Open House. In her latest work, which again features the pubescent narrator first encountered in her debut novel, Durable
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Elizabeth Berg, Author . Random $24.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-679-43746-8
Focusing, in 15 short tales, on those moments in women's lives that provide opportunity for reflection, bestselling author Berg (Open House, an Oprah's Book Club selection) zeroes in on the same kind of emotional revelations she plumbs in...
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Elizabeth Berg. Random House, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-984855-17-6
Berg (The Story of Arthur Truluv) returns to Mason, Mo., for this feel-good testament to taking risks, falling in love, and reinvention. Here, the focus is on the irrepressible members of a monthly club of eight women ranging in age from 20s to 80s,
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Elizabeth Berg. Random House, $27 (224p) ISBN 978-0-593-13467-2
Berg (The Confession Club) eloquently explores the pain of realizing one’s parents are in their declining years. After her father began to develop dementia in 2010 (later diagnosed as Alzheimer’s) and her mother was less able to shovel snow or use...
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Elizabeth Berg. Random House, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-44679-9
Berg revisits the protagonist of her 2017 novel The Story of Arthur Truluv with this gentle coming-of-age. In 1947 Missouri, 16-year-old Arthur Moses has a crush on Nola McCollum, but she has her eyes on Arthur’s older brother, Frank, a high school...
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