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Perfidia

Judith Rossner

Her mother makes love to strangers and chooses the worst kind of friends. Her classmates talk of going to college, but Madeleine, with a scholarship waiting at an Ivy League school, knows that escape is unlikely. For Maddys life revolves around one thing: her jealous, raging, promiscuous mother.And now that Maddy has a lover of her own, now that her mother's delusion-filled, grudge-filled, lover-filled life is crashing down around them, now that Maddy knows leaving would be the deadliest blow of all, there is only one way out: through a terrifying, disastrous moment that will change everything forever.... In her explosive novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Judith Rossner issued a chilling wake-up call to a generation intoxicated by sexual freedom. Now the New York Times bestselling author explores another fatal love: in this unforgettable novel of mother-daughter love gone torturously, tragically wrong.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1999, Hardcover - 1997

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August

Judith Rossner; Rossner

This compelling story explores the lives of two women in contemporary New York: a psychologist and her patient. August portrays their parallel lives in a moving portrait that will mean many things to each of its readers in many startling ways.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1984, Hardcover - 1984, Hardcover - 1983, Hardcover - 1983

Hampton Shorts: Fiction Plus from the East End

Judith Rossner; George Plimpton; David Ignatow; Daniel Stern; Bruce J. Friedman; Pintauro. Joe

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Olivia or the Weight of the Past

Judith Rossner

"A STRONG, CAPTIVATING NOVEL."--San Francisco ChronicleFor Caroline the kitchen has always been her home, and Italian food her specialty. In fact, the minute she sets foot in Italy--and meets the appreciative Angelo, who loves her cooking like nobody's business--Caroline decides to stay.But even the magic spices of Italy can't make her marriage taste right. Angelo takes over the raising of their beautiful daughter Olivia, who, by the age of ten, hardly speaks to her mother. Caroline leaves the country and her daughter for four years, until Olivia seeks out her mother in New York. Caroline is overjoyed and hopeful--until she reacquaints herself with the difficult, demanding daughter she could never stop loving but discovers she doesn't exactly like...."Between the risotto and the romance, Rossner treats family life with a wise and witty touch."--Us Magazine"Everything you expect from a Judith Rossner novel: story, character, language, and uniqueness--and more--a new ripeness, a maturity. It's altogether a deep and satisfying journey."--Betty Rollin

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1995, Hardcover - 1994

His Little Women

Judith Rossner

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Other editions: Softcover - 1991, Hardcover - 1990

Emmeline

Judith Rossner

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1980

Attachments

Judith Rossner

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Other editions: 1977

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Judith Rossner

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1975

To the Precipice

Judith Rossner

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Nine Months in the Life of an Old Maid

Judith Rossner

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Any Minute I Can Split

Judith Rossner

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