NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"A graceful look at growing older from a wise and accomplished writer--sure to appeal to her many fans, women over 50 and readers of Nora Ephron and similar authors."
FICTION
Released: April 1, 2010
"An unsatisfying mix of melodrama and the mundane."
Essayist and novelist Quindlen (
Good Dog. Stay., 2007, etc.) tosses a grenade of murderous mayhem into the middle of an otherwise standard-issue novel of manners about an upper-middle-class community in Vermont.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2004
"Not definitive, but enjoyable for the author's evocative response to a great city."
An affectionate, richly allusive tribute to the city the author first encountered in books as a child and finally visited in person in her early 40s.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 13, 2004
"Rather than float a homily, it would be nice for Quindlen to at least occasionally offer a knot or a koan."
FICTION
Released: Sept. 24, 2002
"As soap-opera-parable with old-fashioned contrivances: comfortable, not Quindlen's best."
Fourth adult novel from
Newsweek columnist Quindlen (
Black and Blue, 1998, etc.), a story of lost souls redeemed by love.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 1998
"Her own writing here, alas, lacks both sedition and seduction."
This brief in favor of reading is every bit as gooey and obvious as its title would indicate.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 2, 1998
"A book to read and savor. (Author tour)"
Pulitzerwinning columnist and novelist Quindlen (One True Thing, 1994, etc.) now takes a talk-show staplespousal abuseand gives it a compelling immediacy in a refreshingly wise and truth- telling novel about life and marriage.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 13, 1994
"When Quindlen gets it right—which is often—she places herself in the league of Mary Gordon and Sue Miller."
If literature were judged solely by its ability to elicit strong emotions, columnist-cum-novelist Quindlen (Object Lessons, 1991) would win another Pulitzer for this wrenching, albeit flawed fiction.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 1993
"Until the quota increases past one, here's a way for more readers to fall in love with at least one woman's very personal brand of passion."
In her second collection of New York Times pieces, Quindlen (Object Lessons, 1991, etc.) lets loose with her trademark intelligence, fervor, and personal focus on topics ranging from the Gulf War through absent fathers to the controversy over abortion. ``But is it really necessary for you to wear your gender on your sleeve?,'' an eager young journalist once asked the author.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 1992
"The events are unexceptional, but narrated with grace and a good sense of childhood's pleasures (though none of its conflicts or frustrations); the soft, realistic color illustrations appealingly depict a snowy, old-fashioned northeastern Christmas. (Picture book. 4-8)"
In her first picture book, the well-known columnist tells a bland but warmhearted story: a nice family with three young children choose their Christmas tree at a farm and happily decorates it together; when the children feel sad about putting the tree out with the trash, Mom comes up with an ingenious way to hold onto its lingering fragrance—a basketful of needles that will keep the gradually diminishing Christmas smell.
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