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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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May 2017
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Isola
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2025
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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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2010
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22 editions
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The Other Side of the Island
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2008
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13 editions
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This Is Not About Us
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2026
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6 editions
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Intuition
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2006
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2 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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11 editions
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The Family Markowitz
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1996
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Paradise Park
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2001
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I'm doing the "By the Book" Q&A in "The New York Times Book Review" this summer. These questions are so much fun. Watch for me . . .
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| A collection of exquisite essays by the astute and witty Anne Fadiman. This book is a delight. A pet frog. A printer. A "lesser poet." Each subject provides a jumping off point for Fadiman. If you love the essay you will love this book. If you want t ...more | |
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| A collection of exquisite essays by the astute and witty Anne Fadiman. This book is a delight. A pet frog. A printer. A "lesser poet." Each subject provides a jumping off point for Fadiman. If you love the essay you will love this book. If you want t ...more | |
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| This book is both gorgeous and erudite. Sutherland spotlights 41 objects important to Jane Austen's life and work. Objects she touched like her little writing table, letters she wrote, a pelisse she wore, an unfinished manuscript, the grate where she ...more | |
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| This book is both gorgeous and erudite. Sutherland spotlights 41 objects important to Jane Austen's life and work. Objects she touched like her little writing table, letters she wrote, a pelisse she wore, an unfinished manuscript, the grate where she ...more | |
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| There's an old joke about a jokers' convention. The people there don't actually tell jokes. They know the jokes already so they just tell the joke number and start laughing. This book is a little like that. It's not for everyone. It's not even for ev ...more | |
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| In this lyrical novel, the narrator has a serious health-scare and comes to terms with his mortality. That makes the book sound simpler and flatter than it really is. I can't capture the book in a few sentences--just as I can't summarize a poem witho ...more | |
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| Do you ever read a book you love so much that you don't want to see the movie? That's "Hamnet" for me. It's a dreamlike, evocative, and psychologically powerful tale of love, loss, and creativity. ...more | |
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| Lily King recommended this book to me and it did not disappoint. I was fascinated by Hazzard's remarkable style, her use of images, her acute sensitivity to mood and motive. Sentence by sentence this is a book to savor. As for the plot, it's sweeping ...more | |
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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
“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
“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
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