Patti Novak, Author, Laura Zigman, Author . Ballantine $24 (228p) ISBN 978-0-345-51006-8
In their first-rate book, Novak, star of TV's Confessions of a Matchmaker
, and novelist Zigman (Animal Husbandry
) prove to be a match made in heaven. Novak cuts the bull when it comes to dating advice: you have to know yourself before you can
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Laura Zigman, Author . Knopf $22 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-41388-9
Zigman's third novel, a wild tale of a woman's "transformation... from bride-to-be to madwoman" is for anyone who's ever felt prewedding jitters and the pangs of obsessive jealousy. Having left her job at a teen magazine in New...
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Laura Zigman, Author , read by Ilana Levine. Random House Audio $29.95 (, unabridged, five CDs, 6 hrs., $29.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-553-71341-1
After leaving her stressful job at a teen magazine, Elise, a 34-year-old grad student and freelance editor, meets Donald, a "freakishly" tall, handsome private school teacher who's recently swapped his hectic Manhattan existence for a...
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Laura Zigman, Author . Warner $23.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-446-57838-7
Zigman (Animal Husbandry
) visits the popular chick lit landscape of Manhattan public relations, but with a less glamorous twist. The publicist is 36-year-old Julia Einstein, a Connecticut housewife who has been relishing her life as a stay-at-home...
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Laura Zigman, Author Dial Press $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-31900-3
The war between the sexes gets a fresh interpretation in Zigman's witty and entertaining first novel. Her conceit--using the mating habits of the animal kingdom to explain male courting behavior and female responses--makes for rollicking fun. Even...
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Laura Zigman, Author Dial Press $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-33340-5
In her bestselling first book, Animal Husbandry, Zigman took a wry look at the mating rituals of young urbanites. Here she uses the same ironic tone to address the rituals of reproduction and one woman's anxiety about deciding whether to become a...
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Laura Zigman. Ecco, $26.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-290907-7
Zigman (Animal Husbandry) charts a chaotic time in the life of an eccentric family in her winning and droll latest. Judy Vogel once wrote a successful kids’ book, but she followed that up with two commercial flops and a case of writer’s block. After
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Laura Zigman. Ecco, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-308828-3
In Zigman’s entrancing and thorny latest (after Separation Anxiety), two sisters confront the childhood death of their middle sister. After living in Los Angeles for 30 years, Lydia Mellishman moves in with her younger sister, Joyce, in Cambridge,...
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