Books by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer and Complete Book Reviews
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Author . Norton $24.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-393-05814-7
Critically praised for her remarkable capacity to evoke time and place in her gorgeous novels (Polish concentration camps in Anya
; the Vietnam war in Buffalo Afternoon
), Schaeffer here transports the reader to medieval Japan in a haunting tale of...
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Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Author . Norton $25.95 (606p) ISBN 978-0-393-06101-7
In her 14th novel, Schaeffer (The Snow Fox
) unfurls a sprawling inheritance saga loosely based on the turbulent life and loves of poet Ted Hughes. Writer Peter Grosvenor has always been almost as famous for his womanizing as he is for his poetry....
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Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Author Ivy Books $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8041-0580-4
``Schaeffer has again produced a tour de force in this stunning Vietnam chronicle, in which she conveys the emotions and actions of men in battle and the anguish of those who survive and are irrevocably scarred. She does this in a narrative of epic...
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Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Author Ivy Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8041-0728-0
This well-crafted novel from the author of Anya is based on the lives of actress Greta Garbo and her companion/maid. (Aug.)
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Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-394-58821-6
A seasoned risk-taker in imagining lives outside the framework of her own experience (among her highly praised characterizations are a Holocaust survivor in Anya and soldiers in Vietnam in Buffalo Afternoon), Schaeffer here burrows into the minds of
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Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Author Simon & Schuster $2.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-671-52587-3
In her first venture into the YA market, adult novelist Schaeffer has written an uneven fantasy. Unknown to most humans, except for an occasional child, dragons still inhabit the world, and many tribes of them live above the village of North...
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Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Author St. Martin's Press $12.95 (131p) ISBN 978-0-312-01431-5
When the Hood family (so named for their hooded winter parkas) moves to the country, they expect to get pets. But the petsGreat Dog, who grows up taller than the weathervane on their house, and the small cat Foudiniwreak havoc on the household. June
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Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Author Alfred A. Knopf $19.95 (535p) ISBN 978-0-394-57178-2
Those who read Schaeffer's unforgettable Anya would marvel if they knew that the author had never set foot in Poland or in the concentration camps, where that novel was set. Schaeffer has again produced a tour de force in this stunning Vietnam...
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Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (635p) ISBN 978-0-394-58820-9
Fully developed, multilayered characterizations and authentic, assiduously researched settings distinguish Schaeffer's beautifully crafted novels ( Anya ; The Madness of a Seduced Woman ). Both virtues enhance her latest work, which features two...
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Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Author Alfred A. Knopf $18.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-679-45474-8
In what surely is a fictionalized version of the life of a beloved pet, Schaeffer spins an appealing story via the feline narrator of this short novel. Ostensibly recording his experiences for the benefit of a young cat brought into the household,...
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