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This Old Heart of Mine

The Best of Merrill Joan Gerber's Redbook Stories

By: Merrill Joan Gerber

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This Old Heart of Mine

The Best of Merrill Joan Gerber's Redbook Stories

By: Merrill Joan Gerber

This book brings together 25 of the "Janet and Danny" stories originally published in Redbook by award-winning writer Gerber. From the opening story through marriage, child-rearing, and the unending mystery of family life, readers witness life's most perilous journey.

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294

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1563520915

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9781563520914

Gut Feelings

A Writer's Truths and Minute Inventions

By: Merrill Joan Gerber

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Gut Feelings

A Writer's Truths and Minute Inventions

By: Merrill Joan Gerber

With this collection of personal essays, Merrill Gerber, a widely and well-published novelist and short story writer, has painted a vivid portrait of herself as a writer and offered an honest glimpse of the inspiration for her own creative process. Through vibrant narratives that self-consciously waver on an ambiguous border between memoir and fiction, Gerber transfixes the reader with genuine accounts of her philosophies and samples of her life. The final three pieces of the collection, originally written as fiction, are included here as memoir to demonstrate her contention that the deepest truths in life can be and often are the greatest source from which to draw the best told lies in fiction. This book will appeal to teachers and students of writing as a study on the craft of writing as well as the general reader interested in the writing process.

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236

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299183505

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9780299183509

The Victory Gardens of Brooklyn

A Novel

By: Merrill Joan Gerber

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The Victory Gardens of Brooklyn

A Novel

By: Merrill Joan Gerber

With The Victory Gardens of Brooklyn, Merrill Joan Gerber demonstrates yet again her talent for pure and natural prose that penetrates the depths of human emotion. Her new novel illuminates the lives of three generations of women belonging to a Jewish American family in New York. Arriving from Poland at the turn of the century, sisters Rachel and Rose discover their fates on New York's Lower East Side. Later, Rachel's daughters, Ava, Musetta, and Gilda, live the passionate drama of their family's destiny as two wars rage in the world around them. In peace and war, the men they love bring them both ecstasy and bitter grief. Musetta's daughters, Issa and Iris, carry the story to its poignant close as the Second World War ends. With a delicate touch yet piercing insight, Gerber explores the yearnings, loves, and struggles of women who try to adapt the Jewish rituals of the "old country" to the realities of the new world.

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418

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Syracuse University Press

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0815608926

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9780815608929

The Kingdom of Brooklyn

By: Merrill Joan Gerber

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The Kingdom of Brooklyn

By: Merrill Joan Gerber

A ten-year chronicle of domestic violence and crisis, this novel recreates the pathology of one Brooklyn family in the mid-1940s and early 1950s, told through the voice of a young child.

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252

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Syracuse University Press

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0815606613

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9780815606611

Botticelli Blue Skies

An American in Florence

By: Merrill Joan Gerber

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Botticelli Blue Skies

An American in Florence

By: Merrill Joan Gerber

Instead of sticking to the conventional tourist path, Gerber follows her instincts. She makes discoveries without tour guides droning in her ear and reclaims the travel experience as her own, taking time to shop in a thrift shop, eat in a Chinese restaurant that serves "Dragon chips," make friends with her landlady (who turns out to be a countess), and visit the class of a professor at the university. She discovers a Florence that is not all museums and wine. With newfound patience and growing confidence, Gerber makes her way around Florence, Venice, and Rome. She visits famous places and discovers obscure ones - in the end embracing all that is Italian."--BOOK JACKET.

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314

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299180204

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9780299180201

Anna in the Afterlife

A Novel

By: Merrill Joan Gerber

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Anna in the Afterlife

A Novel

By: Merrill Joan Gerber

Once her dying got underway, Anna could not really complain about the way the process moved along." So begins this deftly amusing, wryly perceptive look at the passing of a feisty, funny woman. During the four-day limbo that bridges her death and burial, Anna, who is "infinitely present, never dead, never stupid, and never done with it all," gets to investigate the preparations for her own funeral, the true nature of her sister's suicide attempt, and the revelations of her own sexual abuse by her half-brother. She contemplates her parents-her impoverished Polish Jewish mother, her father who was obsessed with his digestive system-and she longs to remember her beloved husband, who is all but buried by time. She considers the origins of her bigotry and her reluctant capitulation to romantic and physical love. In her final moments of consciousness, Anna has the last word on her own secrets and crimes before stepping into eternity.

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140

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Syracuse University Press

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0815606990

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9780815606994

Gut Feelings

A Writer's Truths and Minute Inventions

By: Merrill Joan Gerber

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A Writer's Truths and Minute Inventions

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0299183505

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9780299183509

I'd Rather Think about Robbie

By: Merrill J. Gerber

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I'd Rather Think about Robbie

By: Merrill J. Gerber

Trying to change their conventional image, an eleven-year-old ornithologist and her friends in the Four Roses club are alarmed to find themselves attracted to a precocious boy with a serious interest in kissing.

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164

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HarperCollins Children's Books

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0064403815

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9780064403818

Please Don't Kiss Me Now

By: Merrill Joan Gerber

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Please Don't Kiss Me Now

By: Merrill Joan Gerber

After her parents are divorced, 15-year-old Leslie must cope with her mother's new life-style, her own relationship with two boy friends, and a startling tragedy which forces her to face reality.

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230

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Dial

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0803767927

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9780803767928

The Victory Gardens of Brooklyn

A Novel

By: Merrill Joan Gerber

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The Kingdom of Brooklyn

By: Merrill Joan Gerber

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The Kingdom of Brooklyn

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A ten-year chronicle of domestic violence and crisis, this novel recreates the pathology of one Brooklyn family in the mid-1940s and early 1950s, told through the voice of a young child.

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Anna in the Afterlife

A Novel

By: Merrill Joan Gerber

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Anna in the Afterlife

A Novel

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The Hysterectomy Waltz

By: Merrill Joan Gerber

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The Hysterectomy Waltz

By: Merrill Joan Gerber

A middle age woman struggles with a cancer diagnosis that leads to a hysterectomy and the aftermath.

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184

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1938604199

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9781938604195

Botticelli Blue Skies

An American in Florence

By: Merrill Joan Gerber

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An American in Florence

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Book's by Merrill Joan Gerber

This Old Heart of Mine

This Old Heart of Mine

Gut Feelings

Gut Feelings

The Victory Gardens of Brooklyn

The Victory Gardens of Brooklyn

The Kingdom of Brooklyn

The Kingdom of Brooklyn

Botticelli Blue Skies

Botticelli Blue Skies

Anna in the Afterlife

Anna in the Afterlife

Gut Feelings

Gut Feelings

I'd Rather Think about Robbie

I'd Rather Think about Robbie

Please Don't Kiss Me Now

Please Don't Kiss Me Now

The Victory Gardens of Brooklyn

The Victory Gardens of Brooklyn

The Kingdom of Brooklyn

The Kingdom of Brooklyn

Anna in the Afterlife

Anna in the Afterlife

The Hysterectomy Waltz

The Hysterectomy Waltz

Botticelli Blue Skies

Botticelli Blue Skies

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