false 73435 1 1 female 771761 1224935 0974468789 9780974468785 0 <![CDATA[Among the Names]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1224935.Among_the_Names 4.92 12 73435 4.35 77 8 2005 1549489 1566891272 9781566891271 1 <![CDATA[Some of Her Friends That Year: New and Selected Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185065178m/1549489.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185065178s/1549489.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1549489.Some_of_Her_Friends_That_Year_New_and_Selected_Stories 3.86 14 Highly regarded for her deft and humorous portrayals of the dark side of modern living, Maxine Chernoff's latest collection is a droll, poetic field guide to the endearing and troubling aspects of human behavior. Chernoff fans will relish the sixteen new stories, and new readers will discover a wonderful assemblage of Chernoff's likeable and contemplative characters. Chernoff continues to establish herself as a master of the short story genre with this excellent collection.

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Born in Chicago in 1952, Maxine Chernoff has published several collections of poems, short stories, and novels, including Signs of Devotion, which was a New York Times Notable Book. She edits the long-running literary journal New American Writing and is chair of the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University.

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]]> 73435 4.35 77 8 2002 1159346 0929968115 9780929968117 0 <![CDATA[Leap Year Day: New and Selected Poems]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1159346.Leap_Year_Day_New_and_Selected_Poems 4.75 8 73435 4.35 77 8 1991 2577666 0394755227 9780394755229 2 <![CDATA[BOP]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2577666.BOP 3.88 8 73435 4.35 77 8 1986 5956920 0978766741 9780978766740 1 <![CDATA[The Turning]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1238564865m/5956920.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1238564865s/5956920.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5956920.The_Turning 5.00 6 73435 4.35 77 8 2008 1415388 1844710386 9781844710386 1 <![CDATA[Evolution of the Bridge]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183417681m/1415388.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183417681s/1415388.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1415388.Evolution_of_the_Bridge 5.00 6 73435 4.35 77 8 2004 2577656 1876857307 9781876857301 1 <![CDATA[World: Poems 1991-2001]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2577656.World_Poems_1991_2001 5.00 5 73435 4.35 77 8 2001 977525 0609605224 9780609605226 1 <![CDATA[A Boy in Winter]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179953800m/977525.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179953800s/977525.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/977525.A_Boy_in_Winter 3.43 7 A Boy in Winter takes the stuff of newspaper headlines and explores, in a taut, deeply moving narrative, the human passions behind it.
        
After Nancy Horvath and her eleven-year-old son, Danny, move into their dream house, Danny becomes fast friends with ten-year-old Eddie Nova, the boy next door. Eddie is a hyperactive, difficult child, both boon companion and bane of Danny's existence. Meanwhile, Nancy's helpful, neighborly relationship with Eddie's father, Frank, becomes a passionate affair. Frank is the partner Nancy wishes she had, and the father Danny has always longed for. Then one day, Eddie brings over a hunting bow and playfully aims it at Danny and his dog. In a tragic mishap, Danny accidentally shoots and kills his friend.
        
The novel traces the repercussions of that accident--in Nancy's voice, in Danny's voice, and from Frank's point of view. Danny's extraordinary account of the events that led up to the action is a heartbreaking, pitch-perfect record of the complications of love, the weight of isolation, and the ultimate opacity of intention and motivation. How Nancy's fierce, enduring love for her son sustains a future for him and how Frank's devastating loss and guilt play into that future provide drama-tic counterpoint to Danny's painful dissection of what he has done.
        
With stunning imagination and an almost sculptural elegance of storytelling, Maxine Cher-noff balances the radical shock of tragedy with the hard-won optimism of survival. She brilliantly enacts how a child stunned by grief and the adults who love him reclaim their trust in the future. Ultimately, A Boy in Winter testifies to the power of parental love and steadfast friendship to provide hope and faith in the face of tragedy.]]> 73435 4.35 77 8 1999 2311413 1893032078 9781893032071 0 <![CDATA[Leap Year Day]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2311413.Leap_Year_Day 4.33 3 73435 4.35 77 8 1990 2577648 0916328139 9780916328139 0 <![CDATA[Utopia TV Store]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2577648.Utopia_TV_Store 4.00 3 73435 4.35 77 8 1979