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ZIN Product Number: 10173275
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 262 pages
Publisher: Atria Books
ISBN: 0671013882
Release Date: Jan 9, 1999
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
This "collection of stories is a series of linked narratives that follow the fortunes of three generations of an American Jewish family, keeping tabs on its . . . matriarch, Rose Markowitz, and her descendants through a death,two marriages and a host of lesser crises. . . . For most of the book, the elderly Rose, her oddities accentuated by a deepening Percodan addiction, watches over (and is watched over by) her two sons, Edward and Henry." (N Y Times Book Rev)
| | | | From The Publisher
Allegra Goodman has been described as an "altogether original talent" (Los Angeles Times) whose writing is "hilarious" (New York Newsday). In The Family Markowitz, Goodman writes with charm and compassion about three generations of Markowitzes making their way in America. Among them are Rose, the cantankerous matriarch; Henry, her formerly gay but now married son who runs a Laura Ashley shop in London; her younger son Ed, a terrorism expert at Georgetown; and Ed's daughter Miriam, the medical student who, to her parents' consternation, becomes a born-again Jew. Through extraordinary crises and ordinary rituals, they assert their love and independence, and never fail to speak their minds.
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| | | | The Reader's Catalog
A humorous and familial world of conflict, confusion, and love which delighted readers when the Markowitzes first appeared in the pages of The New Yorker. Through weddings, funerals, academic conferences, even dreams, award-winning writer Allegra Goodman chronicles three generations of a remarkable, and remarkably moving, family
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The Art Biz.........................................................28
Oral History........................................................45
The Wedding of Henry Markowitz......................................72
Mosquitoes.........................................................100
Fantasy Rose.......................................................138
The Persians.......................................................160
The Four Questions.................................................183
Sarah..............................................................208
One Down...........................................................234
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Fiction, Fiction - General, Sagas
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