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Allegra Goodman
Goodreads Author
Born
in Brooklyn, NY, The United States
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Influences
George Eliot, George Orwell, Jane Austen, Cynthia Ozick, Leo Tolstoy,
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Member Since
May 2017
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Isola
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published
2025
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22 editions
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Sam
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2023
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7 editions
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The Cookbook Collector
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published
2010
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22 editions
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This Is Not About Us
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2026
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7 editions
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The Other Side of the Island
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published
2008
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3 editions
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Intuition
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2006
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30 editions
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Kaaterskill Falls
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published
1999
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17 editions
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The Chalk Artist
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2017
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8 editions
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The Family Markowitz
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1996
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17 editions
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Paradise Park
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2001
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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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| This book is so much fun, and so inspiring. A lot of truth here--and the graphics are great. I would add this--if you know young artists--writers, composers, painters, musicians--and you'd like to inspire them, give them this. ...more | |
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| I've read this book twice and listened to it once. (It's a great audio book!) In my opinion "War and Peace" is everything a novel should be. Not because it's long or epic, not because it's huge in scope, but because Tolstoy shows how people change an ...more | |
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![Departure[s] by Julian Barnes](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1746905091l/231681822._SY75_.jpg "Departure[s] by Julian Barnes")
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| This novel is experimental, puzzling, sly, and poignant all at once. "Departure(s)" is a slim book but it contains multitudes, the story of love lost and found and lost again, the story of youth and age and the way youth and age contain each other. I ...more | |
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| This is a tender novel about a mother and her daughters who journey to France to heal from illness and heartbreak. France itself becomes a character in the book as Alice, Sophie, and Iris try to find their way. You might remember Alice and her daught ...more | |
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Allegra Goodman
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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Not at all. I enjoyed the book when it came out, but that was years ago. Let's just say Vance has evolved since then.
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| This is one of my favorite books, a literary memoir by the great Eudora Welty who tells of growing up in Jackson Mississippi. Her charming thesis is that you don't need to have a terrible childhood to become a writer. I read this book for the first t ...more | |
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| Gorgeous, evocative personal essays about Phillips' childhood, coming of age, and growth as a writer. I began to feel I was right there in the small town of the title, at the beauty shop, at Sunday school, or in the kitchen with Jayne Anne and her br ...more | |
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Allegra Goodman
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
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Yes, I believe the movie is based on the book!
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Allegra Goodman
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Amy's
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Amy, thank you for this question, and forgive my delay responding. Somehow I did not see it here! I am so happy you enjoyed "Isola." Reading that book on a snowy day sounds perfect. As a Jewish person, I did quite a bit of thinking when I wrote about
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“How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.”
― The Cookbook Collector
― The Cookbook Collector
“I myself was now an island. Solitary. Brambles and five-petalled flowers were my garden. Rocks my furniture. Ocean waves my lessons. Sadness overwhelmed me and sank back. Then, like the tide, joy crept in on me again.”
― Isola
― Isola
“People ask every day, "Why was I put on earth?" As if there is perhaps one reason. The truth is that there are too many reasons to count, and each reason and each soul connects to every other,”
― The Cookbook Collector
― The Cookbook Collector
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