Allegra Goodman

Tuesday, November 20, 7:00 p.m.

The cookbook collector by Allegra Goodman

National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has written a delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and holding on to what is real in a virtual world: love that stays.

Location: Street: 1010 El Camino Real City: Menlo Park, Province: California Postal Code: 94025-4349 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Allegra Goodman llegeix The Cookbook Collector.

Heralded as “a modern day Jane Austen” by USA Today, National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman will read from and sign her eagerly anticipated new novel The Cookbook Collector, in which she weaves together the worlds of Silicon Valley and rare book collecting in a delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and fulfillment. (misericordia)… (més)

Allegra Goodman , The Other Side of the Island.

"A chilling vision of the future, written with imagination and flare...exotic and surreal."Alan Lightman author of

Einstein's Dreams

"Goodman has written a bracing, exhilarating novel that manages to be both subversive and optimistic."Washington Post

Allegra Goodman is the author of

Intuition,

Paradise Park,

Kaaterskill Falls,

The Family Markowitz, and

Total Immersion. The Other Side of the Island is her first book for younger readers. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Commentary, and Ploughshares, Prize Stories: the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, The Boston Globe, and The American Scholar. Goodman studied English and philosophy at Harvard and received a PhD in English literature from Stanford. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award, the Salon Award for Fiction, and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced study. She lives with her family in Cambridge, Mass. (booksense)… (més)