Books by Binnie Kirshenbaum and Complete Book Reviews
Binnie Kirshenbaum, Author . Norton $24.95 (286p) ISBN 978-0-393-04152-1
This tale of a Jewish biographer's literal love affair with her German subject describes with worldly and generally persuasive candor the history that complicates their relationship. Hester Rosenfeld, an American Jewish historian born in 1963,...
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Binnie Kirshenbaum, Author . Ecco $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-052086-1
Columbia University fiction professor Kirshenbaum (Hester Among the Ruins
) mixes biblical lore with Brooklyn culture in her latest novel, a tragicomic tale of mah-jongg, thwarted love and the mysteries of faith in 1970s Carnarsie. Valentine Kessler,
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Binnie Kirshenbaum, Author . Ecco/Harper Perennial $13.99 (317p) ISBN 978-0-06-078474-4
It takes skill and assurance to pull off this beguiling narrative-by-digression, a love story–cum–family history–cum–confession of sins, and Kirshenbaum (An Almost Perfect Moment
) has both in plentiful supply. A romantic...
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Binnie Kirshenbaum, Author Simon & Schuster $22 (208p) ISBN 978-0-684-86471-6
Poet and femme fatale Lila Moscowitz is in top form, and at rock bottom, in Kirshenbaum's relentlessly sassy tale of a beautiful 34-year-old Jewish woman on a quest for love and happiness. Lila is a minor New York celebrity, famous for her bawdy yet
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Binnie Kirshenbaum, Author Orchard Books (NY) $13.95 (193p) ISBN 978-0-531-05836-7
Audrey glibly narrates this story of her career as a short, underdeveloped, shoplifting movie fan extraordinaire. Every night after school, she sneaks off to her friend Mr. Eisenstein's revival house, where she immerses herself in golden oldies. Her
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Binnie Kirshenbaum, Author Crossing Press $7.95 (150p) ISBN 978-0-89594-397-2
In 10 astute, mildly zany and often wickedly funny stories, Kirshenbaum ( Short Subjects ) peers at a multifaceted assortment of modern relationships. A wife who decides to organize her life by making lists of ``Things to Do'' discovers she married...
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Binnie Kirshenbaum, Author Fromm International $15 (166p) ISBN 978-0-88064-139-5
This rollicking first novel, which follows best friends Monarose and Edie from Manhattan undergraduate classes through their post-college search for men and happiness, offers the kind of hilarious, often poignant life knowledge that should be...
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Binnie Kirshenbaum, Author Fromm International $19.95 (190p) ISBN 978-0-88064-157-9
In a series of graphic sketches, the author of the witty On Mermaid Avenue depicts a young Jewish woman who passes her days and nights in determined promiscuity as she and her random lovers casually confront their insecurities. New York at its urban
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Binnie Kirshenbaum, Author Fromm International $10 (178p) ISBN 978-0-88064-169-2
Deceptively light in tone, these stories nevertheless carry weight, as do the characters, transplanted Southerner Lorraine and her unnamed friend, the Jewish woman from New York City who narrates several of the stories. In ``Halfway to Farmville,''...
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Binnie Kirshenbaum. Soho, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-1-64129-053-1
Kirshenbaum’s first novel in 10 years (The Scenic Route)—a tour de force about 43-year-old novelist Bunny’s descent into an abysmal clinical depression—is a remarkable achievement that expertly blends pathos and humor. Readers meet the self-effacing
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Binnie Kirshenbaum. Soho, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-1-64129-468-3
Kirshenbaum (Rabbits for Food) offers a deeply moving and playfully arch narrative of an artist dealing with her husband’s mental and physical decline. A typical “internal weather report” for Addie, a middle-aged New Yorker, is “overcast with...
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