Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty--even when Prohibition kicks in--and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her high spirits mask a childhood rooted in poverty, and her diary, always close at hand, holds her dearest secrets. When the Great Depression hits, Mazie's life is on the brink...
With pitch-perfect prose, huge compassion, and sly humor, Attenberg delivers an epic story of marriage, family, and obsession. "The Middlesteins" explores the hopes and heartbreaks of new and old love, the yearnings of Midwestern America, and society's devastating, fascinating preoccupation with food.
From one of today's hottest novelists and author of the bestselling The Middlesteins -- a provocative story about friendship and self-discovery. Catherine Madison left her small town in Nebraska after her husband deserted her. She's also left behind her most shameful secrets-of a family and a marriage that have plagued her with self-doubt. On the road, she's trying to become a new person. But running away from the past isn't as easy as she'd h...
Al meer dan dertig jaar leiden Edie en Richard Middlestein een doorsnee leven in een buitenwijk van Chicago, dat wordt overschaduwd door een gênant probleem: Edies gevaarlijk hoge gewicht. Edie is volledig geobsedeerd door voedsel en als ze niet snel ophoudt met eten zal ze niet lang meer te leven hebben.Als Richard zijn vrouw verlaat, is het aan de kinderen om in te grijpen. Ze zijn het echter niet met elkaar eens hoe ze Edies eetprobleem moe...
Per più di trent'anni Edie e Richard Middlestein hanno condiviso la vita - una solida famiglia di Chicago, due figli, una bella casa, un buon lavoro, molti amici. Ma tutto viene sconvolto perché Edie mangia troppo. È tormentata dal cibo, pensa solo a quello e agisce di conseguenza - se non riuscirà a smettere non le rimarrà molto da vivere. Quando Richard decide alla fine di lasciare sua moglie, tocca ai figli prendere il controllo della situa...
We are all walking around this city with our hearts sadly swimming in our chests, like dying fish on the surface of a still pond. It's enough to make you give up entirely.” —from Instant LoveBut we don't give up. We keep trying. We're either too stupid to learn from our mistakes or we honestly believe that the next time will be different, it's hard to say which. Driven by the mad hopefulness that is part of the human condition, we are constant...
Now in paperback, from the author of the bestselling The Middlesteins: the novel that's "unabashedly emotional, refreshingly devoid of New York City cynicism, and tenderly funny?" (People).Jarvis Miller's artist husband has been in a coma for six years. And so, Jarvis has spent these years suspended between hope and grief, paralyzed with longing for a life and a marriage that are slipping away. But then, unexpectedly, Jarvis makes her first ne...
