Cathleen Schine je autorkou niekoľkých románov, ktoré sa ponárajú do zložitosti medziľudských vzťahov a spoločenských noriem. Jej diela sú známe bystrým pozorovaním ľudskej povahy a jemným humorom. Schine skúma témy identity, pamäti a hľadania zmyslu v modernom svete. Jej próza sa vyznačuje eleganciou a vytribeným citom pre detail.
There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed the fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
An enchanting, comic love letter to sibling rivalry and the English language. From the author compared to Nora Ephron and Nancy Mitford, not to mention Jane Austen, comes a new novel celebrating the beauty, mischief, and occasional treachery of language. The Grammarians are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret “twin” tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always bound them together, begins instead to push them apart. Daphne, copy editor and grammar columnist, devotes herself to preserving the dignity and elegance of Standard English. Laurel, who gives up teaching kindergarten to write poetry, is drawn, instead, to the polymorphous, chameleon nature of the written and spoken word. Their fraying twinship finally shreds completely when the sisters go to war, absurdly but passionately, over custody of their most prized family heirloom: Merriam Webster’s New International Dictionary, Second Edition. Cathleen Schine has written a playful and joyful celebration of the interplay of language and life. A dazzling comedy of sisterly and linguistic manners, a revelation of the delights and stresses of intimacy, The Grammarians is the work of one of our great comic novelists at her very best.
From one of America’s greatest comic novelists, a hilarious new novel about aging, family, loneliness, and loveThe Bergman clan has always stuck together, growing as it incorporated in-laws, ex-in-laws, and same-sex spouses. But families don’t just grow, they grow old, and the clan’s matriarch, Joy, is not slipping into old age with the quiet grace her children, Molly and Daniel, would have wished. When Joy’s beloved husband dies, Molly and Daniel have no shortage of solutions for their mother’s loneliness and despair, but there is one challenge they did not count on: the reappearance of an ardent suitor from Joy’s college days. And they didn’t count on Joy herself, a mother suddenly as willful and rebellious as their own kids.The New York Times–bestselling author Cathleen Schine has been called “full of invention, wit, and wisdom that can bear comparison to [ Jane] Austen’s own” (The New York Review of Books), and she is at her best in this intensely human, profound, and honest novel about the intrusion of old age into the relationships of one loving but complicated family. They May Not Mean To, But They Do is a radiantly compassionate look at three generations, all coming of age together.
When Joseph Weissmann divorced his wife, he was 78 years old and she was 75. Exiled from her elegant New York apartment by Joe's mistress, Betty is forced to move to a small, run-down Westport, Connecticut, beach cottage. Joining her are Miranda and Annie, who dutifully come along to keep an eye on their capricious mother.
En una manzana de Nueva York conviven personajes de lo mas variopinto: una solterona resignada a no encontrar la pareja ideal, una celestina obsesionada por planear citas a ciegas para su hermano, un ligón empedernido, un divorciado desengañado del amor... Lo que une a Everett, Jody, Simon y Polly es su pasión por los perros. Y son sus adorables mascotas las que terminan por convertirse en tiernos cupidos que lanzan flechas a sus amos..., aunque suelan equivocarse de objetivo. Go Go Grill, el restaurante a la par que ONG del barrio, será la cocina donde se cuezan los enredos en los que se verán envueltos los protagonistas de esta deliciosa comedia coral.
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Inspired by her account in The New Yorker of adopting a profoundly troubled dog named Buster, acclaimed author Cathleen Schine's The New Yorkers is a brilliantly funny story of love, longing, and overcoming the shyness that leashes us. On a quiet little block near Central Park, five lonely New Yorkers find one another, compelled to meet by their canine companions. Over the course of four seasons, they emerge from their apartments, in snow, rain, or glorious sunshine to make friends and sometimes fall in love. A love letter to a city full of surprises, The New Yorkers is an enchanting comedy of manners (with dogs!) from one of our most treasured writers.
Sono come lei racconta a storia di tre donne, intimamente legate nel bene e nel male. Sono madri e figlie la cui vita prende una svolta inaspettata quando la passione e la malattia irrompono con forza nella loro esistenza. Elizabeth, giovane studiosa di Flaubert, viene convocata a Hollywood da un brillante produttore cinematografico che le commissiona una sceneggiatura ispirata a Madame Bovary. Il tema dell'adulterio è un soggetto delicato per chi, come lei, è refrattaria a sposarsi pur essendo legata da anni allo stesso uomo. Le cose si complicano quando sua madre, una donna dolce e accomodante, le chiede di aiutarla perché la nonna, un'eccentrica e viziata ottantenne, ha scoperto di avere un tumore alla pelle del viso.
Alice è seducente, irresistibile e irriverente verso il mondo dei maschi. Nella sua camera d'ospedale, dove è costretta all'immobilità da una malattia misteriosa, entrano e escono genitori stravaganti, innamorati respinti, spasimanti bizzarri. Il suo letto diventa così un folle volano, un osservatorio dal quale il lettore può intuire gli spazi smisurati dei desideri, i sentimenti che durano solo un minuto, le fantasie amorose più trasgressive.
