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  • LIFE IN A DAY
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    LIFE IN A DAY
    DORIS GRUMBACH
    A look into the daily life of one of America's great memoirists At seventy-seven Doris Grumbach is as sharp as ever, and in Life in a Day she examines the experiences of her later years, from the dreaded writer's block to the many hours she has spent reading to the effects of an increasingly modern and interconnected world. Imbued with Grumbach's characteristic candor and verve...

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  • COMING INTO THE END ZONE
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    COMING INTO THE END ZONE
    DORIS GRUMBACH
    A New York Times Notable Book: One woman's search for the value of a long life With the advent of her seventieth birthday, many changes have beset Doris Grumbach: the rapidly accelerating speed of the world around her, the premature deaths of her younger friends, her own increasing infirmities, and her move from cosmopolitan Washington, DC, to the calm of the Maine coast. Comin...

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  • THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE
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    THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE
    DORIS GRUMBACH
    The story of an ecstatic spiritual moment—and the search to experience it again When she was twenty-seven years old, writer Doris Grumbach had an epiphany. It was as if God were right there beside her, and she had a "feeling of peace so intense that it seemed to expand into ineffable joy." After this fleeting moment, Grumbach became determined to recapture what she had felt. Th...

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  • EXTRA INNINGS
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    EXTRA INNINGS
    DORIS GRUMBACH
    A New York Times Notable Book: A moving glimpse of a life shrewdly examined Extra Innings follows a year in the life of Doris Grumbach, beginning with the release of her previous memoir and journal, Coming into the End Zone, and revealing that the devoted essayist, novelist, and critic possesses as keen an eye in her seventies as she did when she wrote The Spoil of Flowers thir...

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  • FIFTY DAYS OF SOLITUDE
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    FIFTY DAYS OF SOLITUDE
    DORIS GRUMBACH
    A New York Times Notable Book: To truly understand herself, Doris Grumbach embraces solitude With a busy career as a novelist, essayist, reviewer, and bookstore owner, Doris Grumbach has little opportunity to be alone. However, after seventy-five years on the planet, she finally has her chance: Her partner has departed for an extended book-buying trip, and Grumbach has been giv...

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  • THE PLEASURE OF THEIR COMPANY
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    THE PLEASURE OF THEIR COMPANY
    DORIS GRUMBACH
    A literary master looks ahead to her eighties As her eightieth birthday approaches, Doris Grumbach does not feel melancholy or saddened by the upcoming event, despite the loss of friends such as Kay Boyle and Dorothy Day—instead she takes it as an opportunity both to look backward and to grow. In this, her summer of unexpected content, Grumbach weaves the elegiac and the practi...

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  • CHAMBER MUSIC
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    CHAMBER MUSIC
    DORIS GRUMBACH
    In her later years, a woman reflects on her marriage, her stifled passions, and her life  At age ninety, Caroline Maclaren, widow of the prominent composer Robert Maclaren, finally decides to tell her own story. "Perhaps the time was not right to do it before," she remarks. But now she takes pen to paper, reliving her sheltered girlhood, her chilly marriage to a brilliant man, ...

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  • THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE
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    THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE
    DORIS GRUMBACH
    Doris Grumbach's chilling look at the ways childhood experiences create transformative echoes that last throughout adulthood  "I want to lead you all into the ocean to see if you will drown." During the summer of 1929 four children come together and change the course of their lives forever. Caleb and Kate Flowers live an isolated existence with their mother until Lionel Schwart...

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  • THE MAGICIAN'S GIRL
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    THE MAGICIAN'S GIRL
    DORIS GRUMBACH
    United by chance during their formative years at Barnard College, three women come of age in New York Minna Grant, Maud Noon, and Liz Becker are assigned as roommates during their freshman year at Barnard. The daughter of Communist parents, Liz makes a name for herself as a photographer. Minna, bright and pretty, is an avid swimmer with a promising academic future. And Maud, an...

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  • THE MISSING PERSON
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    THE MISSING PERSON
    DORIS GRUMBACH
    The moving portrait of a woman stranded in her lonely fame Franny Fuller, blond, buxom, and beguiling, is the sort of woman who harnesses a power that can enthrall a nation. The legendary movie star has captured the imaginations of audiences, men, and columnist Mary Maguire, who is writing her biography. But just who is the human within the celebrity? This is the story of how F...

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  • THE LADIES
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    THE LADIES
    DORIS GRUMBACH
    A tender and imaginative retelling of the adventures of two of history's most compelling women In 1778 Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby left County Kilkenny for Wales to live together as a married couple. Both well born, highly educated Irish women, the Ladies of Llangollen, as they came to be known, defied all eighteenth-century social convention and spent half a century toge...

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  • THE COLLECTED NOVELS VOLUME ONE
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    THE COLLECTED NOVELS VOLUME ONE
    DORIS GRUMBACH
    Two compelling works of fiction from a feminist literary icon hailed as "Virginia Woolf without the evasive prettifying" ( The New York Times). Chamber Music: Caroline Maclaren, the widow of a prominent composer, is finally going to tell her own life story. Taking pen to paper, she relives her sheltered youth, her chilly marriage to a brilliant man, and the melancholy solitude ...

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  • THE COLLECTED NOVELS VOLUME TWO
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    THE COLLECTED NOVELS VOLUME TWO
    DORIS GRUMBACH
    Three brilliant works of fiction from a feminist and lesbian literary icon who was "acutely sensitive to the quiet hum of everyday living" ( Ms.). The Missing Person: Legendary movie star Franny Fuller captured the imaginations of audiences, men, and her biographer, Mary Maguire. But what does the glamour hide? This is the story of how a girl from Utica, New York, transformed i...

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  • THE COLLECTED MEMOIRS VOLUME ONE
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    THE COLLECTED MEMOIRS VOLUME ONE
    DORIS GRUMBACH
    Three memoirs about isolation, aging, and death from an author whose "private self is as intelligent and generous as her public persona" ( Publishers Weekly). Fifty Days of Solitude: Faced with a rare opportunity to experiment with true solitude, Doris Grumbach decided to live in her coastal Maine home without speaking to anyone for fifty days. A New York Times Notable Book, th...

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  • LIFE IN A DAY
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    LIFE IN A DAY
    DORIS GRUMBACH
    A look into the daily life of one of America’s great memoirists At seventy-seven Doris Grumbach is as sharp as ever, and in Life in a Day she examines the experiences of her later years, from the dreaded writer’s block to the many hours she has spent reading to the effects of an increasingly modern and interconnected world. Imbued with Grumbach’s characteristic candor and verve...

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