Like Normal People - Hardcover

Bender, Karen E

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395945151 ISBN 13: 9780395945155

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 2000

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Book by Bender Karen

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Reseña del editor:

This auspicious and critically acclaimed first novel follows Lena, a forty-five-year-old woman who is trapped in childish behaviors, as she searches for a normal life, and her widowed mother, Ella, who relives her own dreams and disappointments while confronting the possibility of letting her daughter go.

Biografía del autor:

Karen E. Bender's first novel excerpts have been published in THE NEW YORKER, GRANTA, and STORY magazines. The chapter "Eternal Love" was chosen by Annie Proulx to appear in THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1997, and was read by Joanne Woodward to a sold-out crowd at Symphony Space in New York; the recording of that reading aired on NPR's SELECTED SHORTSS. Bender also received a prestigious Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award based on a draft of this novel, and it was recently optioned for TV movie development. Picador will publish the novel in England. Bender's fiction has appeared in the IOWA REVIEW and the KENYON REVIEW and has been reprinted in PUSHCART PRIZE XVIII and other anthologies. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she lives in New York with her husband, the writer Robert Anthony Siegel, and their son.

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• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0395945151
• ISBN 13: 9780395945155
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 269