Jill Ciment, Author . Pantheon $23 (207p) ISBN 978-0-375-42325-3
Ciment's notable new novel (after Teeth of a Dog
) narrates the vanguard life of a New York surrealist artist whose 30 years among South Pacific natives teaches her the sacred art of tattooing. Born at the turn of the century to Jewish...
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Jill Ciment, Author . Pantheon $23 (191p) ISBN 978-0-375-42522-6
Ciment's spare and surprisingly gripping novel details one long weekend in the life of Ruth and Alex Cohen, an elderly New York couple hoping to sell their East Village apartment of 45 years. Ruth is a retired teacher and Chekhov devotee, and...
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Jill Ciment, Author Anchor Books $15 (220p) ISBN 978-0-385-48891-4
In a starred review, PW called this memoir of a scrappy, fatherless childhood ""honest and engaging."" (Sept.)
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Jill Ciment, Author Poseidon Press $18.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-79451-4
The narrator of Ciment's quirky, sometimes funny, lyrical but disappointing love story is 15 when she falls for a kind widower 30 years her senior: Arthur accidentally rams his car into the trailer in which Kim and her loopy mom, Gloria, live. Kim's
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Jill Ciment, Author Crown Publishers $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-70171-3
Bitter poverty and disordered family life thrust Jill Ciment out into the mean streets of the world long before she reached adulthood. By 18, she had already been a shoplifter, porno model, gang member, forger and seductress. Growing up in the 1960s
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Jill Ciment. Pantheon, $23 (192p) ISBN 978-0-307-91170-4
Following Heroic Measures, a chronicle of a city and its housing market in turmoil, Ciment returns with another real estate–themed drama. This latest, however, lacks her previous novel’s tautness and charm. When luminescent spores appear in a...
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Jill Ciment, Author, Bergner, Author Crown Publishers $22 (224p) ISBN 978-0-517-70202-4
Ciment's (Half a Life) multilayered novel is a taut, intelligent literary thriller in which character and fate, and a yawning chasm of cultural differences, unite to cause tragedy. Distinguished anthropologist Thomas Strauss and his substantially...
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Jill Ciment. Pantheon, $24.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4798-5
Ciement’s intriguing, swift-moving novel (after Act of God) is set in the midst of a sensational murder trial—a teenage twin is on trial for murdering her toddler brother, as two jurors engage in a love affair. Moving from jury selection to...
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