Mary Robison

• Jun-1979
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"Robison is both wise and entertaining, a technician with a sense of humor, a minimalist with a good eye for what can be salvaged from lives of quiet desperation." -- The New York Times Book Review The population of Mary Robison's fiction is the stu...

• May-1981
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""At first, Oh! seems a satire, a sitcom stripped of its sentiment and foolishness. But it is far more. Mary Robison is trying to show us how the the incredibly complicated dance of family life works."" -- The New YorkerThose who know Mary Robison's...

• Nov-1983
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• May-1988
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• Feb-1991
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"Robison raises sitcom wit to the level of real emotional situations, real comedy and real art." -- The Chicago Tribune"Subtraction stands out as a high�"wire act of the novel form -- taut in expression yet rich with humanity, expertly crafted and ...

• Feb-2001
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“Tense, moving, and hilarious . . . [A] dark jewel of a novel.” -- Francine Prose, O, The Oprah MagazineThree husbands have left her. I.R.S. agents are whamming on her door. And her beloved cat has gone missing. She's back and forth between Mela...

• Oct-2002
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“Robison has a poet's eye for the unconscious surrealism of commercial America.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewTell Me reflects the early brilliance as well as the fulfilled promise of Mary Robison's literary career. In these stories -- most ...

• Feb-2009
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"Robison's minimalism is more like a slap in the face: it's short, it stings, and you wonder who in tarnation did that to you." -- The New York TimesEnter Eve. Based in New Orleans, she's a location scout for a movie production company and complacen...

• Oct-2018
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"Mary Robison's short stories are short, subtle, and substantial . . . Her ironic sense of detail bursts from every sentence." -- VogueAn Amateur's Guide to the Night stands as a perfect example of Mary Robison's beloved narrative style: purposeful,...