Gina Berriault

• Nov-1982
• / Literary
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• Apr-1984
• / Women's Fiction
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A master of the short form, Gina Berriault stands somewhere between Chekhov and Isaac Babel in style and psychological acuity -- and in this beautiful new edition of one of her most beloved novellas, she traces the changing relationships between...

• Dec-1986
• / Literary
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• 1996
• / Literary
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“In these 35 stories, one struggles to find a sentence that is anything less than jewel�"box perfect.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewGina Berriault is known for the complexity and compassion with which she weaves her characters, and her stor...

• Jun-1998
• / Literary
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Hal O. Costigan, candidate for Congress, is the kind of man people envy. He has a loving wife, a supportive family, a devoted mother. Friendly, intelligent, successful, he is a man on the rise - until he is caught in an affair with a high school girl...

• Jul-1998
• / Women's Fiction
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The haunting story of a woman who desires “something more, as if something more had been promised her that was not yet given.”Vivian Carpentier, confined by her role as an upper class woman in the 1940s, gleans meaning only from erotic love. Trou...

• May-2000
• / Literary
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• Dec-2004
• / Literary
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Gina Berriault had written critically acclaimed stories and novels for decades, but in 1996 she was in the literary spotlight as never before, winning both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Women in Their Beds. Thi...

• Jul-2011
• / General Fiction
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"Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry -- with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's like trying to pin down the eternal moment." -- Gina BerriaultGina Berriault was one of the great, rare...

• Mar-2014
• / Literary
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Gina Berriault’s work as a storywriter of great psychological empathy and extraordinary elegance and subtlety was celebrated widely at the end of her life. Her collection Women in Their Beds, won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, the National Boo...

• Oct-2017
• / General Fiction
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“In these 35 stories, one struggles to find a sentence that is anything less than jewel-box perfect.” ―The New York Times Book Review

Gina Berriault is known for the complexity and compassion with which she weaves her characters, and her...

• Aug-2022
• / Women's Fiction
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A master of the short form, Gina Berriault stands somewhere between Chekhov and Isaac Babel in style and psychological acuity. "Berriault writes real fiction . . . She deepens reality, complements it and affords us the bliss of knowing, for a moment,...

• May-2023
• / Women's Fiction
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First published in 1966, A Conference of Victims charts the corrosive power of guilt and loneliness, showing how one terrible act can possess a familyHal O. Costigan, candidate for Congress, is the kind of man people envy. He has a loving wife, ...