Joan Silber, Author . Algonquin $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-56512-320-5
An unlikely couple weather a crisis in this forthright novel about love and accommodation. Elisa, a 20-something flighty artist, and Gabe, a bookish, much older former drug dealer and ex-con, meet and fall in love in New York City. Their voices,...
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Joan Silber, Author . Norton $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-393-05908-3
Big ideas come in lovely small packages in this collection by Silber (Lucky Us
, etc.). Six elegantly connected stories explore, through first-person narratives, the conflicts and commonalities of love, faith and sex. A minor character in the first...
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Joan Silber, Author . Norton $23.95 (322p) ISBN 978-0-393-05909-0
War, love and culture shock take various forms, but the size of the world, in Silber's magnificent fiction, is often no larger than the distance to the person in bed beside you. Like NBA finalist Ideas of Heaven
(2005), Silber's sixth...
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Joan Silber, Author Sarabande Books $21.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-889330-42-6
Troubled, middle-aged New Yorkers ponder their wild youthful selves and their belated or botched second chances in these 12 accessible, moving tales. Novelist Silber (Household Words; In the City) imagines households of mostly decent, though...
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Joan Silber, Author W. W. Norton & Company $13.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-32823-3
Originally published in 1980, National Book Award finalist Silber's first novel gives taut insight into the the possibilities of introspection for a woman of the Greatest Generation. Unsentimental Rhoda Taber lives in suburban New Jersey with her...
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Joan Silber, Author Penguin Books $6.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-009742-9
Innocent and naive, Pauline Samuel is determined to live the bohemian life in Greenwich Village in the 1920s but slowly becomes bitter and aimless. PW noted that this ""deceptively simple narrative achieves real depth and resonance.'' (March)
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Joan Silber. Norton, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0393088700
This tightly constructed collection from Silber (Ideas of Heaven) shows her talents at their finest. The stories pivot nimbly from the foibles of young anarchists in Greenwich Village in the early 20th century, in “Fools,” to a spoiled young man’s...
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Joan Silber. Counterpoint (PGW, dist.), $26 (256p) ISBN 978-1-61902-960-6
In her far-ranging latest, Silber (Fools) delivers a whirlwind narrative reminiscent of her compact story collections in novel form, with mixed results. Told in three parts and jumping back and forth from the 1970s to 2012, the multipronged story...
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Joan Silber. Counterpoint, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-1-64009-445-1
A crushing indiscretion comes to light in the sharp latest from National Book Critics Circle Award winner Silber (Improvement). The story is initially narrated by Ethan, a gay Manhattan attorney who discovers his businessman father, Gil, has led a...
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Joan Silber. Counterpoint, $27 (256p) ISBN 978-1-64009-707-0
Silber’s alluring 10th novel (after Secrets of Happiness) tenuously connects three generations of New Yorkers. It begins in 1973, when friends Ivan and Eddie return from bumming across Europe to grungy Alphabet City. After Eddie overdoses on heroin,
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