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A new edition of my novel "The Origin of Sorrow" is out today. It's a historical novel set in the 1770s in a Jewish ghetto in Frankfurt. That's where and when the Rothschild family originated, amid the bustle and drama of this walled-in world.
It is my longest, 578 pages of drama, comedy,love and hate. New York Times contributor Robert Lipsyte, author of a dozen books himself, has called "Sorrow... read more »

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Books by Robert Mayer

Average rating: 3.72 · 346 ratings · 58 reviews · 12 distinct works

	The Dreams of Ada 3.81 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 1987 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Superfolks by Robert Mayer (Goodreads Author), Grant Morrison (Foreword by) 3.49 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 1977 — 8 editions	My rating:
	I, JFK 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Notes of a Baseball Dreamer: A Memoir 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	The Origin of Sorrow 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings	My rating:
	Danse Macabre 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	The Ferret's Tale 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	The Grace Of Shortstops 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Midge & Decker 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1982	My rating:
	The Execution 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions	My rating:

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