The Magician's Girl de Grumbach, Doris - 1993-11-17

Ny:: W. W Norton,. Near Fine. 1993. Softcover; First Printing. ISBN: 0393310914. Light speckling to edges of front and rear cover. Light tanning to pages.. Catalogs: Fiction.

W. W. Norton & Company, 1993-11-17. paperback. Used: Good.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993. Very Good. The three "girls" in this novel meet as roommates at Barnard in the late Th irties. Maud, the daughter of a quiet father and a mother who inexplicably studies the Miss America pageant, becomes a poet, better known after her su icide than before. Liz, the daughter of Communist parents, makes a name for herself by photographing physically unusual peoplegiants, accident victims . The most outwardly conventional of the three is Minna, an academic who le ads a fairly middle-class life until the death of her son snaps her out of the world of the predictable. Minna moves to Iowa, the last place she expec ts to find surprises, and unexpectedly forms an unconventional romantic att achment. Grumbach's well-crafted novel will appeal to readers for whom the passage of time is disconcerting but not frightening.

W. W. Norton & Company, 1993. Paperback. Used: Acceptable. Paperback in good condition. 1st Norton Paperback edition 1993. Initially restrained, this story of three young women coming to maturity in New York City in the 1930s soon becomes engrossing, as the characters quicken into attractive and sympathetic life. They meet at Barnardpretty, middle-class Minna; Liz, a Greenwich Villager mad about photography; and fat, pig-eyed, dough-faced Maud, on scholarship from an obscure upstate high school. Poor and unprepossessing, Maud is a poet who fascinates Leo Luther, arguably the handsomest boy at Columbia. He takes her to bed, marries her, begets upon her twin sons and, predictably, drifts off. Maud's life is thereupon reduced to scribbled-on bits of paper and the detritus left by two neglected children. Although Minnawho becomes a fairly distinguished professor of history and at age 60 falls improbably in love with a youth years her junioris the focal character, and though Liz grows famous for… Leer más

W. W. Norton & Co., 1993. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 208 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.50 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. The Magician's Girl tells the story of three New York women who meet at Barnard in the late 1930s and fulfill their separate destinies from the 1940s to 1978. Lyrical, dramatic, and wise, Grumbach's novel is rich with evocations of America's past, from the flavors of New York City to academic life in the 1970s.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Paperback / softback. New.

W. W. Norton & Company, 1993-11-17. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!