Ellen Feldman, Author . Norton $23.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-393-05944-1
Feldman (Lucy
) pens a deeply affecting, unsettling look into the soul of a man whose attempts to bury his past cannot prevent it from seeping into his present life. Anne Frank and Peter van Pels shared an awkward first love in the Amsterdam annex...
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Ellen Feldman, Author . Norton $24.95 (363p) ISBN 978-0-393-06490-2
Set in 1931’s Jim Crow South, Feldman’s dramatization of the infamous Scottsboro case makes for bleak, if familiar, reading. Alice Whittier, an ambitious, crusading journalist at the left-wing New York City publication The New Order
,...
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Ellen Feldman, Author Little Brown and Company $17.45 (318p) ISBN 978-0-316-27758-7
Nora Heller, divorced, fortyish, attractive, well-adjusted, is the publisher and editor-in-chief of AH! , formerly American Homemaker magazine, in Ellen Feldman's predictable third novel, after Conjugal Rights. Riding the Amtrak on the way to visit...
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Ellen Feldman, Author Dell Publishing Company $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-21513-4
Menaced by strange telephone calls, a psychiatrist's wife must convince her spouse that the threats are not in her imagination. (July)
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Ellen Feldman, Author Dell Publishing Company $5.99 (389p) ISBN 978-0-440-21516-5
A journalist lets her personal life get dangerously mixed up with those of her subjects. (Dec.)
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Ellen Feldman, Author William Morrow & Company $0 (236p) ISBN 978-0-688-04739-9
Feldman's bittersweet novel about three sisters in Manhattan sensitively explores their romantic difficulties, as well as their love for one another. Unflappable matrimonial lawyer Emily Brandt confidently deals with clients, yet rarely asserts...
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Ellen Feldman, Author Delacorte Press $19.95 (305p) ISBN 978-0-385-30912-7
A psychiatrist's wife is the target of steadily escalating harassment in this moderately involving psychological thriller by the author of Looking for Love. Isobel, director of a New York City landmarks preservation organization, has married Pete,...
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Ellen Feldman, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-684-83121-3
Former TV news producer Bailey Bender, the heroine of this sensitive but formulaic novel, has abandoned her New York City career in TV news for a new life working in a bookstore (and ambivalently dating Mack, a recovering alcoholic Vietnam vet) on...
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Ellen Feldman, Author Delacorte Press $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-30913-4
In her latest psychological thriller, Feldman (Too Close for Comfort) captures the doubts and insecurities of the freelance journalist--here, of heroine Hallie Fields, who writes primarily for Era, a magazine ``geared to what are known as women-of-a-
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Ellen Feldman. Random/Spiegel & Grau, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9271-7
Feldman's latest (after Scottsboro) follows three female friends through WWII and into the '60s as lives, loves, and perceptions change both within and without. Bostonians Babe, Grace, and Millie don't want to lose the men they love to the looming...
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Ellen Feldman. Random/Spiegel & Grau, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9344-8
The witch hunts of McCarthyism and the Cold War provide an appropriate backdrop for the this intelligent but overly detached novel from Feldman (Next to Love) about the betrayals and secrets of a marriage. Cornelia and Charlie Benjamin are part of...
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Ellen Feldman. Harper, $25.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-240755-9
Feldman’s latest (after 2014’s The Unwitting) chronicles the life of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger from her point of view, with occasional shifts to the people in her orbit. Raised in a large family headed up by a father who encouraged...
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Ellen Feldman. St. Martin’s Griffin, $17.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-62277-8
The question of what it means to be Jewish drives Feldman’s nuanced WWII story of love and survival (after Terrible Virtue). Nine years after the war, Charlotte Foret, a widow from France, lives in New York City with her teenage daughter, Vivi,...
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Ellen Feldman. Griffin, $17.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-78082-9
In this exquisite piece of historical fiction, Feldman (Paris Never Leaves You) explores post-WWII Germany as viewed by a Jewish woman who escaped as a child. Meike “Millie” Mosbach fled Germany at 16 in 1938 with her younger brother, David. During...
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