Marion Thurm, Author, Marian Thurm, Author Bantam Books $9.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-34821-7
Septuagenarian Henry is not long for this world, and his incongruous death-bed entourage features his third wife, Kate, 41 years his junior, and their tot, Darlan; his emotionally distant but ever-needy second wife, Cynthia; Nina, Henry's recently...
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Marian Thurm, Author Delphinium Books $23 (225p) ISBN 978-1-883285-21-0
How does one recover from unexpected misfortune? With steely grace and relentless optimism, if acclaimed short story writer and novelist Thurm (The Clairvoyant) has anything to do with it. From New York and Florida to California, her characters ...
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Marian Thurm, Author Poseidon Press $15.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-64924-1
Unpredictability and the strangeness of ordinary people are the constant themes in this second collection of short stories. Thurm ( Floating , Walking Distance ) has a precise ear for the language of odd moments. ``Leaving Johanna'' is a story about
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Marian Thurm, Author Random House (NY) $16.95 (279p) ISBN 978-0-394-55147-0
This is a sad and lovely book whose motif of death and dying is lightened not only by the protagonist Laura's eagerness for life, but by the witty pragmatism of her grandmother Sophie, who at 85 is trying to decide whether having a man in her bed at
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Marian Thurm, Author Washington Square Press $7.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-68329-0
Unpredictability and the strangeness of ordinary people are the constant themes in this second collection of Thurm's short narratives. PW complimented these 10 stories for ``the liquid clarity'' of their prose. (July)
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Marian Thurm, Author Penguin Books $6.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-14-010756-2
Happily married Laura meetsand falls in love witha man who is dying of cancer. Meanwhile, her 85-year-old grandmother is trying to decide whether having a man in bed at night is worth putting up with him during the day. PW found this ""sad and...
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Marian Thurm, Author Bantam Books $19 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07604-2
Thurm's ( Henry in Love ) latest novel, set in contemporary Manhattan, is almost a collage of urban absurdities. In the background any number of odd exchanges take place (``Blame it on the bossa nova,'' a man replies when a stranger criticizes him...
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Marian Thurm, Author Zoland Books $23.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-944072-72-1
Professional clairvoyant Victor Mackenzie has had ""the gift"" since he was eight, when the ghost of Murray Weinbaum, owner of the local candy store, appeared in his bedroom. Through the years, this guardian angel has brought Victor messages and...
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Marian Thurm. Permanent, $29 (278p) ISBN 978-1-57962-428-6
In this arresting psychological portrait of an obsessive husband and an ineffectual wife, Thurm (The Clairvoyant) dissects the lives of Roger and Stacy Goldenhar, a couple who make their home in Manhattan, where they were born in the same hospital...
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Marian Thurm. Delphinium, $26.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-953002-00-6
The sparkling latest from Thurm (Today Is Not Your Day) looks back on the heyday of glossy magazine publishing. In 1978, 25-year-old Mel Fleischer is working at an unnamed magazine as an assistant to cranky literary editor Austin Bloch. When Mel isn’
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