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  • Enchantment

    A Novel

    by Daphne Merkin ...
    A bold, provocative "pioneering novel" ( Los Angeles Times) about family, womanhood, and growing upSet on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Enchantment is narrated by Hannah Lehmann, the wry survivor of a troubled childhood. Hannah's perceptions of her Orthodox German Jewish heritage—her five brothers and sisters, the complicated power of families, the madness of money, the obsessive workings of memory ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Fame Lunches

    On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, and the Importance of Handbags

    by Daphne Merkin ...
    A wide-ranging collection of essays by one of America's most perceptive critics of popular and literary culture.Daphne Merkin brings her signature combination of wit, candor, and penetrating intelligence to a wide array of subjects that touch on every aspect of contemporary culture, from the high calling of the literary life to the poignant underside of celebrity to our collective fixation on fame ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • This Close to Happy

    A Reckoning with Depression

    by Daphne Merkin ...
    "A cleareyed, insightful account of how she felt during her nosedives into despair . . . shot through with a self-awareness that helps readers cheer her on."— The New York TimesA New York Times Book Review Favorite Read of the Year"Despair is always described as dull," writes Daphne Merkin, "when the truth is that despair has a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottled silver." This ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love

    A Novel

    by Daphne Merkin ...
    "Daphne Merkin meets the formidable challenge of describing female lust and romantic obsession with all the desired daring, candor, and skill. The result is a bracingly honest, keenly insightful, utterly compelling book." —Sigrid Nunez, author of The FriendA harrowing, compulsively readable novel about breaking free of sexual obsessionA novel of unsurpassed candor, punctuated by bold ruminations ... Read more

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  • The Pumpkin Eater

    This darkly humorous novel of a woman’s inner musings on motherhood, betrayal, dreams—and the unpredictable emotions that surround them—is “so moving, so funny, so desperate, so alive . . . one to be greatly enjoyed” (The New York Times).The “strange, fresh” feminist classic that inspired the 1964 film starring Anne Bancroft (Nick Hornby, author of Funny Girl).The Pumpkin Eater is a surreal black ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    This Close to Happy

    A Reckoning with Depression

    by Daphne Merkin ...
    Narrated by Suzanne Toren ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 32 min

    A gifted and audacious writer confronts her lifelong battle with depression and her search for releaseThis Close to Happy is the rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman’s perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime.Taking off from essays on depression she has written for ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

  • Zero Gravity

    by Woody Allen ...
    His first new collection of short humor in fifteen years is classic Woody Allen.Zero Gravity is the fifth collection of comic pieces by Woody Allen, a hilarious prose stylist whose enduring appeal readers have savored since his classics Getting Even, Without Feathers, Side Effects, and Mere Anarchy. This new work combines pieces that have appeared in The New Yorker along with eleven written ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Dead Girl

    Revised Edition

    A revised edition of the classic true-crime memoir of the murder of Berkeley student Roberta Lee in 1984, written by her close friend, desperate for justice. Gripping, heartbreaking, and full of details about the investigation, the book is also a portrait of a generation.Roberta Lee, a Berkeley student of unusual promise, went running one Sunday in November 1984 with her lover, Bradley Page. He ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Rainbow

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timePronounced obscene when it was first published in 1915, The Rainbow is the epic story of three generations of the Brangwens, a Midlands family. A visionary novel, considered to be one of Lawrence’s finest, it explores the complex sexual and psychological relationships between men and women in an increasingly industrialized ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Sons and Lovers

    First published in 1913, ‘Sons and Lovers’ is a provocative semi-autobiographical novel by D.H. Lawrence, an English writer, and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization.The work is based in part on his own family, his mother married a miner like the matriarch of the novel and consequently felt ... Read more

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  • Women in Love

    by D.H. Lawrence ...
    The novel tells of the relationships of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, who live in a Midland colliery town in the years before the First World War. Ursula falls in love with Birkin (a thinly disguised portrait of Lawrence himself) and Gudrun has an intense but tragic affair with Gerald, the son of a local colliery owner. ... Read more

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  • Aaron's Rod

    A Novel

    Series Book 8 - D. H. Lawrence Collection
    D.H. Lawrence's seventh novel, Aaron Sisson, a union official in the coal mines of the English Midlands, is trapped in a stale marriage. He is also an amateur, but talented, flautist. At the start of the story he walks out on his wife and two children and decides on impulse to visit Italy. His dream is to become recognised as a professional musician. During his travels he encounters and befriends ... Read more

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