Roxana Robinson
ROXANA ROBINSON is the author of two novels, Sweetwater and This Is My Daughter; a biography of Georgia O’Keeffe; and two previous short-story collections, A Glimpse of Scarlet and Asking for Love. Four of her works have been named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. Robinson’s fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Harper’s, Daedalus, and Vogue. She lives in New York City and Westchester County, New York.
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eBook | 352 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-43197-4 (0-307-43197-5)
December 18, 2007 | $13.95
Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant Mangum
Foreword by Roxana Robinson
Benediction • Head and Shoulders • Bernice Bobs Her Hair • The Ice Palace • The Offshore Pirate • May Day • The Jelly Bean • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz • Winter Dreams • Absolution
In the euphoric months...
eBook | 256 pages | Random House | Fiction
978-0-307-43043-4 (0-307-43043-X)
December 18, 2007 | $23.00
In Roxana Robinson’s lucid and elegant prose, her characters’ inner worlds open up to us, revealing private emotional cores that are familiar in their needs, their secrets, and their longings. These people tell us the truth–not only about themselves, their relationships, and their lives, but about ourselves as well.
In “Family Christmas,”...
eBook | 352 pages | Random House | Fiction
978-0-307-43188-2 (0-307-43188-6)
December 18, 2007 | $18.95
In this brilliant, luminous novel, one of our finest realist writers gives us a story of surpassing depth and emotional power. Acclaimed for her lucid and compassionate exploration of the American family, Roxana Robinson sets her new work on familiar terrain—New York City and the Adirondacks—but with Sweetwater she transcends the...
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Fiction
978-0-8129-6735-7 (0-8129-6735-6)
March 14, 2006 | $23.00
In Roxana Robinson’s lucid and elegant prose, her characters’ inner worlds open up to us, revealing private emotional cores that are familiar in their needs, their secrets, and their longings. These people tell us the truth–not only about themselves, their relationships, and their lives, but about ourselves as well. A Perfect...
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-8129-7477-5 (0-8129-7477-8)
November 8, 2005 | $13.95
Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant Mangum
Foreword by Roxana Robinson
Benediction • Head and Shoulders • Bernice Bobs Her Hair • The Ice Palace • The Offshore Pirate • May Day • The Jelly Bean • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz • Winter Dreams • Absolution
In the euphoric months...
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Fiction
978-0-8129-6734-0 (0-8129-6734-8)
March 8, 2005 | $17.00
In this brilliant, luminous novel, one of our finest realist writers gives us a story of surpassing depth and emotional power. Acclaimed for her lucid and compassionate exploration of the American family, Roxana Robinson sets her new work on familiar terrain—New York City and the Adirondacks—but with Sweetwater she transcends the...
