Richard Stern

• Sep-1974
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“Until the day of Merriwether’s departure from the house—a month after his divorce—the Merriwether family looked like an ideally tranquil one” we read on the first page of Other Men’s Daughters. It is the late 1960...

• Sep-1980
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• Sep-1987
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• Jan-1989
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• Dec-2001
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Keneret, the director, and Spear, the Anglo-American historian-critic, have committed the great Hollywood sin: they've gotten old. Spear, fading in the Malibu hills, is consoled and diverted by his wonderful granddaughter, Jennifer, a San Francisco l...

• Oct-2004
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Set against the splendor of Venice, Stitch is the moving story of the meeting between a group of Americans and a world-famous sculptor. Stitch, a character whom certain critics have recognized as one of the most remarkable portraits of Ezra Pound, is...

• Jun-2005
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Honorable Mention, 2006 The Society of Midland Authors Adult Fiction Award

For decades, Richard Stern has been acclaimed as one of the American masters of the short story. Almonds to Zhoof: Collected Stories brings together for the f...

• Nov-2007
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Originally published in 1961, this shrewd, smartly written novel follows two American men traveling in Europe. Though both have struck out for the same continent, each man’s methods of and motives for travel lead him to have a very different exp...

• Dec-2014
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A tale of the battles between a father and son by an author whose novels are robustly intelligent, very funny, and beguilingly humane (Philip Roth). Cy Riemer is the patriarch of a successful and loving Chicago family. But not all is copacetic in Cy'...

• Dec-2014
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A high-flying journalist comes to ground in this brilliant and bittersweet novel about coming to terms with the traumas of life Fred Wursup has an enviable existence. Paid to travel around the world harvesting the annual crop of stars and villains, h...

• Sep-2017
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WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE

From the author of The Door, selected as one of the New York Times "10 Best Books of 2015," this is a heartwrenching tale about a group of friends and lovers torn apart by the German occupation of Budap...

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A collection of stories includes a tale of a Gulf War soldier in love; an artist's attempt to escape the shadow of her father's work; and a Chicago burglar's troubled life; as well as a novella about a sexually insatiable American opera composer....