Lynn Freed, Author . Little, Brown $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-316-66633-6
Secrets twine around secrets in this haunting, intimate novel about the power of desire and the stifling force of isolation. Born to a wealthy womanizer and a vain opera singer, Theadora grows up on an estate with her mother, Nalia, at the southern...
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Lynn Freed, Author . Harvest $13 (188p) ISBN 978-0-15-602994-0
Women's relationships—with their mothers, their lovers, their culture and their own sexuality—are the subject of the 14 stories (written over nearly 20 years) in this fine collection. Freed, the author of five novels (The Mirror
;...
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Lynn Freed, Author . Harcourt $22 (234p) ISBN 978-0-15-101132-2
Freed, author of five novels and, most recently, the story collection The Curse of the Appropriate Man
, offers insights into her writing and her life in 11 clean, incisive essays that mix the personal with the instructional without going too deeply
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Lynn Freed, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $24 (216p) ISBN 978-0-15-101288-6
Freed's sixth novel, a moving and unconventional romance spanning 20 years, blossoms in post-WWII South Africa, where Cressida, a precocious nine year old, lives with her mother, Muriel; sister Miranda; and her comatose father. Faced with an...
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Lynn Freed, Author Poseidon Press $20.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-75587-4
Ruth Frank, the child-narrator of Freed's critically acclaimed Home Ground , has grown up in this appealing novel. Having married and settled in America, she returns to South Africa after her father suffers a heart attack. There, she resumes her...
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Lynn Freed, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY) $21 (224p) ISBN 978-0-517-70320-5
The talented Freed (The Bungalow) delivers a tour de force in this diary of an ambitious, headstrong, sexually independent lower-class Englishwoman who comes to Durban in 1920 to serve as a housekeeper for a Jewish family. Agnes La Grange, the name...
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Lynn Freed, Author Summit Books $16.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-61965-7
For protagonist Ruth Frank, home ground is a small town in South Africa in the 1950s, in the thick of a feuding theatrical family, where her parents play at ""Happy Families'' with the same fervor and artifice they bring to their professional...
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Lynn Freed, Author Penguin Books $7.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-14-008948-6
For protagonist Ruth Frank, home ground is a small town in South Africa in the 1950s, where her family occupies a doubly alienated positionas Jews in gentile society and whites in an overwhelmingly black country. PW noted that Freed is ""perceptive''
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Lynn Freed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25 (208p) ISBN 978-0-374-28665-1
Three “mad old bags,” all pushing 70, pool their resources to rent a house on a Greek island for a year in the drily whimsical latest by Freed (The Servants’ Quarters). Narrator Ruth, a South African transplanted to the United States, has just given
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Lynn Freed. Counterpoint, $25 (224p) ISBN 978-1-61902-927-9
Novelist Freed (The Servants’ Quarters), an English professor at UC Davis, wrestles with “the horror of being stuck where one lives” and, in opposition to that horror, her attachment to the comfort, intimacy and pride of home in this collection of...
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