Katharine Weber: 7 books
by Katharine Weber
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
The Memory of All That is Katharine Weber’s memoir of her extraordinary family.
Her maternal grandmother, Kay Swift, was known both for her own music (she was the first woman to compose the score to a hit Broadway show, Fine and Dandy) and for her ten-year romance with George Gershwin. Their...
The Little Women
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2003
A delightfully clever contemporary novel inspired by the Louisa May Alcott classic
In Katharine Weber's third novel, The Little Women, three adolescent sisters--Meg, Jo and Amy--are shocked when they discover their mother's affair, but are truly devastated by their father's apparently easy...
True Confections
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Take chocolate candy, add a family business at war with itself, and stir with an outsider’s perspective. This is the recipe for True Confections, the irresistible new novel by Katharine Weber, a writer whose work has won accolades from Iris Murdoch, Madeleine L’Engle, Wally Lamb, and Kate Atkinson,...
by Katharine Weber
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Harriet Rose, 26, is an American photographer just winning recognition for her work. A travel fellowship brings her to visit her best friend and former roommate, Anne Gordon, in Switzerland. In an ongoing letter to her boyfriend, Harriet reports on strange developments in Anne's life, most notably...
by Katharine Weber
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
“Stark and compelling . . . Rigorously unsentimental yet suffused with emotion: possibly the best work yet from an always stimulating writer.”―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A brilliantly crafted novel, brimming with heart.”―Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage
“Rich...
The Music Lesson
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
"She's beautiful," writes Irish-American art historian Patricia Dolan in the first of the journal entries that form The Music Lesson. "I look at my face in the mirror and it seems far away, less real than hers."
The woman she describes is the subject of the stolen Vermeer...
Triangle
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Esther Gottesfeld is the last living survivor of the notorious 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire and has told her story countless times in the span of her lifetime. Even so, her death at the age of 106 leaves unanswered many questions about what happened that fateful day. How did she manage to survive...