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Allegra Goodman
Goodreads Author
Born
in Brooklyn, NY, The United States
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Influences
George Eliot, George Orwell, Jane Austen, Cynthia Ozick, Leo Tolstoy,
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May 2017
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Isola
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2025
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21 editions
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Sam
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2023
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7 editions
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The Cookbook Collector
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2010
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22 editions
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This Is Not About Us
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2026
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7 editions
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The Other Side of the Island
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2008
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3 editions
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Intuition
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2006
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30 editions
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Kaaterskill Falls
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published
1999
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17 editions
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The Chalk Artist
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2017
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The Family Markowitz
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1996
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Paradise Park
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2001
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I'm doing the "By the Book" Q&A in "The New York Times Book Review" this summer. These questions are so much fun. Watch for me . . .
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Allegra’s Recent Updates
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Allegra Goodman
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
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Allegra Goodman
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Amy, thank you for this question, and forgive my delay responding. Somehow I did not see it here! I am so happy you enjoyed "Isola." Reading that book on a snowy day sounds perfect. As a Jewish person, I did quite a bit of thinking when I wrote about
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Allegra Goodman
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Thank you for your question! I was indeed quite young when I wrote "Sarah." I think I must have been 25 or 26. It's funny but I've always enjoyed writing older characters, and I particularly enjoyed writing them when I was young. In fact I felt more
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| This is one of my favorite stories of all time. It's the way Porter weaves together Miranda's life as a reporter, the jingoism that accompanies WWI, the almost certain death that awaits young men who go to serve, and the Spanish flu which shadows you ...more | |
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| I'm fascinated by the subject--American workers who become nomads because they can't afford permanent housing. I admire the reporting which combines observation, interviews, policy research, and excellent questions. And I absolutely love the storytel ...more | |
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| Like everyone else, I've seen and heard Rachel Goldberg-Polin and her husband speak out about their captive son and all the hostages of October 7th. I could hear Rachel Goldberg-Polin's voice as I read this book. It's not an artful memoir. It's a raw ...more | |
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| I thought this would be interesting. I didn't expect to be a page turner as well. Pinkham hooked me from the first page where she describes the vast forests and the forest people of prehistoric Russia. This is a history of Russia through an environme ...more | |
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| A collection of exquisite essays by the astute and witty Anne Fadiman. This book is a delight. A pet frog. A printer. A "lesser poet." Each subject provides a jumping off point for Fadiman. If you love the essay you will love this book. If you want t ...more | |
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| A collection of exquisite essays by the astute and witty Anne Fadiman. This book is a delight. A pet frog. A printer. A "lesser poet." Each subject provides a jumping off point for Fadiman. If you love the essay you will love this book. If you want t ...more | |
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| This book is both gorgeous and erudite. Sutherland spotlights 41 objects important to Jane Austen's life and work. Objects she touched like her little writing table, letters she wrote, a pelisse she wore, an unfinished manuscript, the grate where she ...more | |
“How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.”
― The Cookbook Collector
― The Cookbook Collector
“I myself was now an island. Solitary. Brambles and five-petalled flowers were my garden. Rocks my furniture. Ocean waves my lessons. Sadness overwhelmed me and sank back. Then, like the tide, joy crept in on me again.”
― Isola
― Isola
“People ask every day, "Why was I put on earth?" As if there is perhaps one reason. The truth is that there are too many reasons to count, and each reason and each soul connects to every other,”
― The Cookbook Collector
― The Cookbook Collector
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