Rachel Simon, Author . Houghton Mifflin $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-618-04599-0
This perceptive, uplifting chronicle shows how much Simon, a creative writing professor at Bryn Mawr College, had to learn from her mentally retarded sister, Beth, about life, love and happiness. Beth lives independently and is in a long-term...
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Rachel Simon, Author . Dutton $24.95 (259p) ISBN 978-0-525-95120-9
In her second memoir (after Riding the Bus with My Sister
), Simon writes about her relationship with her husband, Hal. The two married after 19 years together (including a breakup and reunion) and moved into Hal's historic row house in...
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Rachel Simon, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $18.95 (212p) ISBN 978-0-89919-952-8
This distinctive, often arresting debut collection of stories marks its author as a writer to watch. In 16 tales, Simon displays an original and provocative style. With a dark humor that often plunges her characters into surreal circumstances, she...
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Rachel Simon, Author Viking Books $21.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-85262-8
This playful, bawdy first novel is presented as a biography of ``sexual healer'' Celeste Kipplebaum Runetoon Kelley, whose convoluted moniker characterizes the overall goofy spirit. Simon imaginatively combines a young woman's coming-of-age story...
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Rachel Simon, Grand Central, $24.99 (346p) ISBN 978-0-446-57446-4
In this enthralling love story, Lynnie, a young white developmentally disabled woman with limited speech, and Homan, a deaf African-American man, meet at the Pennsylvania State School for the Incurable and Feebleminded in the late 1960s. Despite...
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Rachel Simon, read by Kate Reading. Hachette Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 12 hrs., $29.98 ISBN 978-1-60941-108-4
On a dark night in the late 1960s, Homan, a deaf African-American man, and Lynnie, a young white woman with very little vocal ability, arrive on Martha Zimmer's doorstep during a severe storm. While giving the drenched and mysterious couple food and
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