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...ELLEN SCHWAMM's How He Saved Her, the fictional autobiography of a New York socialite, may well interest fans of the 19th-century Gothic romance. Her Nora Ingarten is, enviably enough, the Gothic heroine of the '80s. Admittedly not young and violable. Nora is already married, the mother of two chic and witty Amherst-bound offspring. But her marriage to a conservative tax lawyer has stunted rather than matured her, and she has persisted as confused, dogged and sensitive as a teenage heroine. How He Saved Her tells the story of Nora's enlightenment through her elusive and brutal seducer...
FICTION: Adjacent Lives, Ellen Schwamm ·Faeries, Brian Fraud and Alan Lee ·Short Stories, Irwin Shaw ·Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ·The Stories of John Cheever. John Cheever ·The World According to Garp, John Irving War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk
FICTION: Adjacent Lives, Ellen Schwamm∙Faeries, Brian Fraud and Alan Lee∙Short Stories, Irwin Shaw∙Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever∙The World According to Garp, John Irving War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk
FICTION: Adjacent Lives, Ellen Schwamm ∙Faeries, Brian Fraud and Alan Lee ∙Secret Isaac, Jerome Charyn ∙Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever ∙The World According to Garp, John Irving War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk
...Even her passion has poise," Schwamm writes of Natalie. The same may be said of Schwamm's minor-key prose, remarkably suited to evoking those "moments of clear, bright, sufficient joy" that elevate life and redeem grief...