Amy Ephron, Author . HarperCollins $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-058552-5
Short, light period women's fiction with itty-bitty chapters and clever twists is Ephron's specialty (A Cup of Tea
; White Rose
; etc.). This one is set in 1926 and features New York's postdeb set, pretty jazz-age flappers with bobbed...
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Amy Ephron, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (224p) ISBN 978-0-688-14997-0
Ephron turns the notion of the good Samaritan on its head in a bauble of a tale about altruism gone horribly wrong. In New York City in 1917, well-to-do Rosemary Fell offers indigent Eleanor Smith tea, sympathy and shelter from the rain. Little does
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Amy Ephron, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (272p) ISBN 978-0-688-16314-3
The latest effort from novelist (A Cup of Tea) and screenwriter Ephron is based on the true story of Evangelina Cisneros, who escaped imprisonment in Cuba with the aid of American journalist Charles Duval (aka Karl Decker) during the 1890s, just...
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Amy Ephron, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (159p) ISBN 978-0-395-57227-6
In a series of short takes, much like a soap opera format, Ephron ( Bruised Fruit ) delivers a wickedly accurate satire of trendy, self-indulgent upper- middle-class life in L.A. If indeed California is another country, Ephron has captured its...
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Amy Ephron. Morrow, $19.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-195874-8
Novelist Ephron (and sister of Nora, Delia, and Hallie) has some colorful and memorable decades under her belt, which she gives a glimpse of in this essay collection. As a child, she befriends neighbor and famed architect Stiles Oliver Clements, who
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Amy Ephron. Philomel, $16.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-399-54698-3
Ephron (Loose Diamonds) draws on elements common to classic children’s stories—secrets gardens, powerful wishes—in her first book for young readers. Tess, 11, and her younger brother, Max, are sent to live with their widowed Aunt Evie in the English
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Amy Ephron, read by Laraine Newman. Listening Library, unabridged, 3 CDs, 3.5 hrs., $27 ISBN 978-1-5247-5020-6
Eleven-year-old Tess and her younger brother, Max, are having trouble entertaining themselves while spending the summer with their Aunt Evie in the English countryside. Then one day Tess stumbles upon an old rusty key that unlocks an ornate gate...
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