Grandmothers Club [Paperback]

Alan Cheuse (Author)

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• Paperback
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); First Edition. 1st pb reviewers slip laid in edition (1988)
• ASIN: B000OIZBYI
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,407,522 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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ALAN CHEUSE


"The Voice of Books on National Public Radio"--that's how novelist, essayist and story writer Alan Cheuse has been described. For over twenty-five years, Cheuse has been "reading for America" every week on NPR, and he's also been writing a number of books of his own, and teaching the art of narrative and literature at George Mason University for over twenty years.
He is the author of the novels The Bohemians, The Grandmothers' Club and The Light Possessed. His latest novel, To Catch the Lightning (winner of the 2009 Grub Street Prize for Fiction), follows the career of turn of the century photographer Edward S. Curtis and his quest to photograph the western tribes of North America. He is also the author of several collections of short fiction and a pair of novellas published under the title The Fires. He is the co-editor with Nicholas Delbanco of Talking Horse: Bernard Malamud on Life and Art, and co-author with Delbanco of Literature: Craft & Voice, a major newly published introduction to college literary study, and also the co-editor of Writers Workshop in a Book: The Squaw Valley Community of Writers on the Art of Fiction, and editor of Listening to Ourselves: Great American Short Fiction.
Cheuse's essays, short stories, and reviews have appeared in numerous places, such as The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, World Literature Today, The Antioch Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and other venues. His essay collection, Listening to the Page, appeared in 2001. His collected travel essays came out in June 2009 under the title A Trance After Breakfast.

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3.0 out of 5 stars eli black?, March 21, 2010

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This review is from: The Grandmothers' Club: A Novel (Paperback)

the description of this book (as does the name of the principal character: bloch) bears an uncanny resemblance to the life of eli black, first a rabbi then the long term president of united brands who fell to his death from his office on the 44th floor of the pan am building in nyc... now how did the reviewer miss this?