Patricia Grossman, Author . Permanent $26 (248p) ISBN 978-1-57962-149-0
An uneven but affecting tale of suburban familial angst, Grossman's fifth novel follows Brian in Four Seasons
. It's 1998, and Emma Mallick, at midlife, is weary of her sterile life in a gated community in Foster Mills, Long Island. She's
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Patricia Grossman, Northwestern Univ./Tri-Quarterly, $29.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8101-5199-4
Grossman (Brian in Three Seasons) pursues the erratic coming-of-age of the gifted daughter of a family of second-generation Czech immigrants living outside of Chicago. In 1969, 18-year-old Elise Blazek, scholarly and haughty, gets both accepted into
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Patricia Grossman, Author Galileo Press $10.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-913123-31-7
This tender, subtle first novella begins with its very adult, preadolescent narrator, Mona, imagining a device that would waft her to the bathroom each morning to ``do away with the necessity of taking the first step out of bed.'' She embellishes...
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Patricia Grossman, Author Calyx Books $25.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-934971-48-5
Grossman (Inventions in a Grieving House) natters on interminably about Art and Life in this debut novel. The four figures of the title are all connected to Rensler, a New York City art school. Sonya is a sculptor whose married, longtime lover (anoth
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Patricia Grossman, Author Calyx Books $13.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-934971-47-8
Grossman (Inventions in a Grieving House) natters on interminably about Art and Life in this debut novel. The four figures of the title are all connected to Rensler, a New York City art school. Sonya is a sculptor whose married, longtime lover (anoth
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Patricia Grossman, Author Alyson Books $11.95 (221p) ISBN 978-1-55583-544-6
Adopting a child is difficult enough, but for New Yorker Meg KrantzDa 37-year-old single, self-employed lesbianDit seems next to impossible. Grossman (Inventions in a Grieving House), who's a supervising editor at Scholastic Inc., sets out to wrench
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Patricia Grossman, Author, Diane D'Andrade, Editor, Lydia Dabcovich, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-257438-3
In the dark of night, five city dwellers get off the ``night bus,'' headed for their jobs. One man cleans offices, another is a doorman at a posh hotel. Honey rolls and shapes dough in a bakery, while Amelia labors in an airport control tower and...
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Patricia Grossman, Author, Enrique O. Sanchez, Illustrator HarperCollins $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-12176-1
Grossman ( The Night Ones ) here renders a composite portrait of the sprawling market held each week in Oaxaca, Mexico. Each spread introduces another vendor or marketgoer, explaining what he or she is selling or buying and, in most cases,...
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Patricia Grossman, Author, Robert Wintner, Author . Permanent $26 (224p) ISBN 978-1-57962-122-3
Brian Moss is the urban gay everyman. Nearing 40 in 1995, when Grossman's nicely nuanced but somewhat pat fourth novel (after Unexpected Child
) is set, Brian has settled for sex with strangers. His incomplete dissertation on painter Toulouse-Lau
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