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Details the experiences of three young women in their changing roles as friends, daughters, sisters, and lovers as they struggle with the ironies and casual betrayals of everyday life
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"In "Haunted Houses," Lynne Tillman chronicles the loneliness of childhood and incipient womanhood, the salvation of friendship, and the neurotic chain that binds perpetually needy daughters to their perpetually self-absorbed parents. . . . Her style is spare and compelling, the effect of clinical authenticity." -- "New York Times Book Review"
"Ms. Tillman's characters are rigorously drawn, with a scrupulous regard for the truth of their inner lives . . . this is one of the most interesting works of fiction in recent times . . . Fans of both truth and fancy should find nourishment here." -- "LA Weekly"
"Lynne Tillman's protagonists are so lifelike, engaging and accessible, one could overlook, though hardly remain unaffected by, the quality of her prose, with its unique balancing of character interrogation and headlong entertainment. Haunted Houses achieves that hardest of things: a fresh involvement of overheard life with the charisma of
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"Lynne Tillman has always been a hero of mine--not because I 'admire' her writing, (although I do, very, very much), but because I feel it. Imagine driving alone at night. You turn on the radio and hear a song that seems to say it all. That's how I feel..." -- Jonathan Safran Foer
"One of America's most challenging and adventurous writers." -- "Guardian"
"Like an acupuncturist, Lynne Tillman knows the precise points in which to sink her delicate probes. One of the biggest problems in composing fiction is understanding what to leave out; no one is more severe, more elegant, more shocking in her reticences than Tillman." -- Edmund White
"Anything I've read by Tillman I've devoured." -- Anne K. Yoder, "The Millions"
"If I needed to name a book that is maybe the most overlooked important piece of fiction in not only the 00s, but in the last 50 years, [American Genius, A Comedy] might be the one. I could read this back to back to back for years." -- Blake Butler, "HTML Giant"
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- PublisherPoseidon Pr
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0671637193
- ISBN 13 9780671637194
- BindingHardcover
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Haunted Houses : A Novel [Paperback]
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208 pp.; 21.5 x 14 cm.; sewn bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed First edition paperback of a coming of age novel by Lynne Tillman centering around three young women: Hilda, Ruth, and Grace, published in 1987. "The haunted houses of Lynne Tillman's striking first novel are three young women, rootless, on the road from adolescence to womanhood, struggling with the unwelcome ironies and casual betrayals of everyday life." -- publisher's statement. New. Unread copy, clean and unmarked. Seller Inventory # 24736
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Haunted Houses : A Novel [Hardback]
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208 pp.; 22.1 x 14.5 cm.; sewn bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed First edition hardback of a coming of age novel by Lynne Tillman centering around three young women: Hilda, Ruth, and Grace, published in 1987. "The haunted houses of Lynne Tillman's striking first novel are three young women, rootless, on the road from adolescence to womanhood, struggling with the unwelcome ironies and casual betrayals of everyday life." -- publisher's statement. Very Good / Fine. As New, unread copy, contents clean and unmarked. Seller Inventory # 24737
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Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. This copy has been SIGNED by Lynne Tillman on the title page! First printing reportedly only 1,000 copies - this is an Advance Review Copy with Publisher's promotional card and slip laid-in. The author's first book - the "haunted houses" are three young women, rootless, on the road from adolescence to womanhood, struggling with the unwelcome ironies and casual be trayals of everyday life. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 1980
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ISBN 13: 9780671637194
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