Jane Lazarre, Author Crossing Press $18.95 (316p) ISBN 978-0-89594-249-4
As an infant, Charlotte Cohen is left in New York by her mother Mara, who has joined her husband George, a soldier in the Spanish Civil War. The couple is killed, Charlotte is taken in by George's brother Buck and his wife Rose, the situation giving
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Jane Lazarre, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-525-24976-4
Autobiographical fiction, her forte, again serves Lazarre well in this latest effort, after The Mother Knot. Having last explored the complexities of maternal emotions, Lazarre here uses her alter ego, Julia, to explore the two forces that dominate...
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Jane Lazarre, Author, Jane Lazarre, Author, Jaime Manrique, Author Duke University Press $69.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-8223-1826-2
""I think of the Black bodies which are the closest bodies to me in the world, and then... I imagine black bodies made to seem mysterious, threatening, holders of nightmares,"" says Lazarre in this unorthodox book that combines her experiences and...
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Jane Lazarre, Author, Jane Lazarre, Author, Lazarre, Author Duke University Press $59.95 (136p) ISBN 978-0-8223-2206-1
Reading Lazarre's (Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons) latest is like spending time with a friend, albeit an intense and occasionally neurotic one who can lapse into trendy psychobabble (""I must recover this...
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