A collection of novellas.
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998
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"Reading
Michelle Herman's new collection is like eating Godiva chocolates,
something so exquisitely enjoyable you can't get enough of it.
How often,in this day and age, does one get to read a love story
which is also a literary gem? These novellas are the stuff of
classics."
--Marly Swick
"These novellas
have a psychological depth and acute worldliness one associates
with continental fiction. Michelle Herman's sympathies bridge
generations and genders; her intelligence conveys both the lovingness
and coldness of the way we live now. Her work is a sophisticated
pleasure."
--Philip Lopate
"These three
novellas are three gems, each with distinctive coloring and distinctive
authorial voice. The winter atmosphere of the artists' colony
in the title novella is captured in its unique mixture of aggressive
companionship and loneliness, and frames an unusual love story
played against a critical view of a marriage of two incompatibles.
The highlight of this book, however, is the novella 'Hope Among
Men.' . . . Herman's is a subtle, generous, humorous and touching
triptych on the theme of love, oh, love, oh careless love."
--Josef Skvorecky
"In A New
and Glorious Life Michelle Herman looks with intelligence, sympathy,
and wit at the lives of a wide range of contemporary men and
women--some
of them eventually glorious and others sad but holding their own."
--Alison Lurie