Martha Cooley: 3 books

In this “splendid and subtle memoir,” a young woman spends a year in an Italian village reflecting on both beauty and grief (The New York Times Book Review).   Having lost eight friends in ten years, Martha Cooley retreats to a tiny medieval village in Italy with her husband. There, in a rural...

- "The Archivist, Martha Cooley's first novel, was a national bestseller and a "New York Times Notable Book.- With the assurance, complexity, and depth of a work by Bulgakov, DeLillo, or Poe, Martha Cooley's extraordinary second novel is further evidence that she is one of the most gifted writers at work today.

A young woman's impassioned pursuit of a sealed cache of T. S. Eliot's letters lies at the heart of this emotionally charged novel -- a story of marriage and madness, of faith and desire, of jazz-age New York and Europe in the shadow of the Holocaust. The Archivist was a word-of-mouth bestseller and one of the most jubilantly acclaimed first novels of recent years.