Henry and Kate's May-December love is threatened when the sixty-eight-year-old man becomes unexpectedly ill and his twenty-eight-year-old wife must care for him, while his meddlesome ex-wife and daughter interfere...
Thurm's ( Henry in Love ) latest novel, set in contemporary Manhattan, is almost a collage of urban absurdities. In the background any number of odd exchanges take place (``Blame it on the bossa nova,'' a man replies when a stranger criticizes him fo...
He could see everyone's future but his own.... Victor Mackenzie has always considered his clairvoyance a gift, even though it does make his life difficult at times. A casual encounter with a stranger leaves his head spinning with the most private ...
Filled with quirky characters and dramatic turns, this collection of stories by the author of
With her fourth collection, acclaimed short story writer Marian Thurm brings her darkly comic sense of humor to a memorable set of new characters -- every one of whom is brought to vivid life under her sharply observant but always compassionate gaze....
In this powerful new book from an esteemed novelist and acclaimed short story writer, Marian Thurm expertly draws a chilling portrait of a marriage and the downward spiral of a loving husband and father who has bought a handgun as the novel opens. St...
One of the many well-educated Ivy League graduates with literary ambitions who flock to New York City every year, 25-year-old Melissa Fleischer has the great fortune to work as the assistant to Austin Bloch, an editor responsible for refining and pub...
At the age of 25, Marian Thurm began publishing short stories in The New Yorker, and her work has been compared to the short fiction of Lorrie Moore, Ann Beattie, and Amy Bloom. Known for her uncanny sense of the absurd along with her empat...
At the age of 25, Marian Thurm began publishing short stories in The New Yorker, and her work has been compared to the short fiction of Lorrie Moore, Ann Beattie, and Amy Bloom. Known for her uncanny sense of the absurd along with her empat...
A complex family drama with a Manhattan family court judge at its center. I Don’t Know How to Tell You This focuses on Judge Rachel Sugarman and her life both inside and outside the courtroom. Rachel is part of a close Jewish family whose ...