Jami Attenberg: 16 books

Per più di trent’anni Edie e Richard Middlestein hanno condiviso la vita – una solida famiglia di Chicago, due figli, una bella casa, un buon lavoro, molti amici. Ma tutto viene sconvolto perché Edie mangia troppo. È tormentata dal cibo, pensa solo a quello e agisce di conseguenza – se non...

From critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a novel of family secrets: think the drama of Big Little Lies set in the heat of a New Orleans summer “If I know why they are the way they are, then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am,” says Alex Tuchman...

A National Bestseller “I read it twice, laughing, cringing, and even tearing up.” — Judy Blume, New York Times “Powerful . . . All Grown Up is so intimately [and] sharply observed.” — Vogue “Bravo to Attenberg, who, with hilarity and honesty, tells the story of an...

“We are all walking around this city with our hearts sadly swimming in our chests, like dying fish on the surface of a still pond. It’s enough to make you give up entirely.” —from Instant Love But we don’t give up. We keep trying. We’re either too stupid to learn from our mistakes...

For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth. She's obsessed with food--thinking about it, eating it--and if she doesn't stop, she won't...

Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty--even when Prohibition kicks in--and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her high spirits mask a childhood...

Difficile non restare affascinati da Mazie Phillips, grande cuore, corpo esuberante, passione sfrenata per la vita, libera da ogni conformismo. Di giorno nel gabbiotto del Cinema Venice a vendere biglietti, a osservare la gente. Di notte per le strade in cerca di avventure, buone bevute e un modo...

Partez à la rencontre de Mazie Phillips, inoubliable héroïne à la gouaille mordante du New York des années folles. Personnage haut en couleur, Mazie Phillips tient la billetterie du Venice, cinéma new-yorkais du Bowery, quartier populaire du sud de Manhattan où l'on croise diseuse de bonne...

Mazie Phillips wächst im New York der 1920er auf. Während ihre jüngere Schwester als Tänzerin durch die Varietés tingelt und die ältere heiratet, weiß Mazie nicht, wohin. Ihr Schwager gibt ihr einen Job in seinem Kino. Tagsüber beobachtet sie aus ihrem Kassenhäuschen das lebhafte Treiben,...

Les tribulations d'une New-Yorkaise bien décidée à vivre selon ses propres règles. Autour d'Andréa, célibataire légèrement alcoolique ayant renoncé à sa vocation artistique, tout le monde semble avoir une idée bien précise de ce que signifie " être adulte " : Indigo, sa meilleure...

Su richiesta della sua analista, Andrea Bern si definisce: sono una donna, una designer, un’amica; sono tecnicamente ebrea, sono una figlia, una sorella, e vivo a New York. Ma quello che pensa davvero dentro di sé è: sono sola, sono un’ex artista, una bevitrice, un’urlatrice a letto, il capitano...

A tender, provocative story about the power of friendship, the thrill of self-discovery, and the strength it takes to escape the past. Catherine Madison is headed West with a suitcase full of cash that isn't hers. She's just left the only home she's ever known, a small town in Nebraska, after...

Now in paperback, from the author of the bestselling The Middlesteins: the novel that's "unabashedly emotional, refreshingly devoid of New York City cynicism, and tenderly funny?" (People). Jarvis Miller's artist husband has been in a coma for six years. And so, Jarvis has spent these years...

Bienvenue chez les Middlestein, une famille aussi irrésistible que dysfonctionnelle, minée par l'appétit hors norme de la matriarche. Un roman à dévorer d'une traite ! Grandeur et décadence d'une famille juive de Chicago, confrontée à l'appétit dévorant d'une mère. Best-seller du New York...