Doris Grumbach

• Nov-2018
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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...

• Oct-1996
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Harvey Robertson, an ordinary American citizen of no particular importance, buys a cream-filled donut one day in November 2010. This simple act launches him into a perilous quest to save the United States from tyranny. A semi-retired technical writer...

• Jun-1995
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Meeting in 1929 on the brink of adolescence, four children who were raised in isolation by a widowed mother grow into young men and women whose lives are marked by incest, homosexuality, and celibacy....

• Nov-1993
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The Magician's Girl tells the story of three New York women who meet at Barnard in the late 1930s and fulfill their separate destinies from the 1940s to 1978. Lyrical, dramatic, and wise, Grumbach's novel is rich with evocations of America's past,...

• Sep-1984
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"A tale told in delicate brushstrokes of a relationship in which two hearts came almost literally to beat as one."

Newsday

In the late 18th century, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby defied all conventions of their Irish homeland and el...

• Mar-1981
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The Missing Person is a tellingly achieved fusion of thought and action and the most fully realized evocation of Hollywood themes in a long, long time." ―Alan Cheuse, Los Angeles Herald Examiner

• Mar-1979
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"""I believe Chamber Music will be a classic. It deserves to be."" —Alice Walker

Caroline Maclaren, the ninety-year-old widow of a famous American composer, reaches back into her memories to tell the story of their life together. I...