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Daphne Merkin meets the formidable challenge of describing female lust and romantic obsession with all the desired daring, candor, and skill. The result is a bracingly honest, keenly insightful, utterly compelling book." -Sigrid Nunez, author of The FriendA novel of unsurpassed candor, punctuated by bold ruminations on love, marriage, family, sex, gender, and relationships, 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love depicts one woman's psychological des...

Daphne Merkin meets the formidable challenge of describing female lust and romantic obsession with all the desired daring, candor, and skill. The result is a bracingly honest, keenly insightful, utterly compelling book." -Sigrid Nunez, author of The FriendA harrowing, compulsively readable novel about breaking free of sexual obsessionA novel of unsurpassed candor, punctuated by bold ruminations on love, marriage, family, sex, gender, and relat...

A bold, provocative "pioneering novel" (Los Angeles Times) about family, womanhood, and growing upSet on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Enchantment is narrated by Hannah Lehmann, the wry survivor of a troubled childhood. Hannah's perceptions of her Orthodox German Jewish heritage-her five brothers and sisters, the complicated power of families, the madness of money, the obsessive workings of memory itself-are as disquieting in their sharpness as...

»Mein fremdes Ich gehört zum Kanon der Bücher, die depressive Menschen ermutigen und jenen glücklichen, die dieser Bürde entgangen sind, Aufklärung geben.« (Washington Post) Seit ihrer Kindheit leidet die New Yorker Schriftstellerin Daphne Merkin an Depressionen. Obwohl ihre Eltern, orthodoxe deutsche Juden, sehr wohlhabend waren, war die Atmosphäre in ihrem Zuhause harsch, es fehlte den Kindern an Kleidung, Essen und Zuneigung. Zum ersten Mal...

One of the most accurate, and therefore most harrowing, accounts of depression to be written in the last century...Ms. Merkin speaks candidly and beautifully about aspects of the human condition that usually remain pointedly silent (John Kaag, The Wall Street Journal).Daphne Merkin has been hospitalized three times: first, in grade school, for childhood depression, years later, after her daughter was born, for severe postpartum depression, and...

A New York Times Book Review Notable BookDaphne Merkin brings her signature combination of wit, candor, and penetrating intelligence to subjects that touch on every aspect of contemporary culture, from the high calling of the literary life to the poignant underside of celebrity and our collective fixation on fame.Merkin's elegant, widely admired profiles go beneath the glossy facades to consider their vulnerabilities and demons, as well as the...

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An entertaining collection of maverick essays by an extraordinary writer. Whether writing about the pleasures of spanking, losing her religion, rock 'n' roll, the erotic lure of the movies, her own failed marriage, or other vexed subjects, Daphne Merkin is alway compulsively readable, tough-minded, recklessly candid, and controversial.