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- ISBN
- 9781635577624
- Book Title
- Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket : Stories
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- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2021
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- Hardcover
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- English
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- 0.9 in
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- Family & Relationships, Fiction
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- Love & Romance, Classics, Short Stories (Single Author)
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- 11.4 Oz
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- 5.8 in
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- 208 Pages
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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1635577624
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9781635577624
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Book Title
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket : Stories
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Topic
Love & Romance, Classics, Short Stories (Single Author)
Genre
Family & Relationships, Fiction
Format
Hardcover
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Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
11.4 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.8 in
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"[Wolitzer] shows us the ever-shifting alliances of family life and ways in which love can both change and endure." -- New York Times "To read Hilma Wolitzer is to laugh in a special way and to allow yourself little intermissions of sheer satisfaction in which you lay the open book facedown on your heart and snuggle with the human race." -- Gail Godwin "Wolitzer's vision of the world, for all its sorrow, is often hilarious and always compassionate." -- New York Times Book Review "Wolitzer is a champ at the closely observed, droll novel of manners." -- NPR "Funny, wise, and touching." -- The Washington Post on AN AVAILABLE MAN, "Hilma Wolitzer's Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket is electric: with wit, with rage, with grief, with the kind of prose that makes you both laugh and thrill to the darker, spikier emotions just barely visible under the bright surface. What a wonderful collection of stories." -- Lauren Groff "Wit, wisdom, and warmth form the foundation of this sparkling collection. Wolitzer is a natural-born storyteller whose rigor, attention, and generosity create miracles on each and every page." -- Tayari Jones "Hilma Wolitzer sees the miraculous, and the tragic, in modest lives and domestic particulars-wonders that might pass as ordinary events to the untrained eye. She magnifies the world. She insists, in one gorgeous sentence after another, that there's no such thing as a usual hour, let alone a usual day." -- Michael Cunningham "How could you not love a collection of stories that begins with the titular Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket ? Wolitzer doesn't just brilliantly capture what we imagine is recognizable ordinary life, she reveals the unique magic that is so absolutely transcendent, it makes us see and live in the world differently. This is a fabulous collection brimming with the compassion, grace, and wit that Wolitzer is known for." -- Caroline Leavitt "In this acutely observed collection, Hilma Wolitzer considers the bonds of married love, emotional and erotic. With her trademark dry wit and abiding compassion, she explores the telling details of everyday life in ways that are unsettling, insightful, and wholly original. These stories will linger in your mind and get under your skin. They shimmer with life." -- Christina Baker Kline "Immensely gratifying, poignant, funny...breathtaking." -- Elizabeth Strout, from the Foreword "[Wolitzer] shows us the ever-shifting alliances of family life and ways in which love can both change and endure." -- New York Times "To read Hilma Wolitzer is to laugh in a special way and to allow yourself little intermissions of sheer satisfaction in which you lay the open book facedown on your heart and snuggle with the human race." -- Gail Godwin "Wolitzer's vision of the world, for all its sorrow, is often hilarious and always compassionate." -- New York Times Book Review "Wolitzer is a champ at the closely observed, droll novel of manners." -- NPR "Funny, wise, and touching." -- The Washington Post on AN AVAILABLE MAN, "Hilma Wolitzer's Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket is electric: with wit, with rage, with grief, with the kind of prose that makes you both laugh and thrill to the darker, spikier emotions just barely visible under the bright surface. What a wonderful collection of stories." -- Lauren Groff "Wit, wisdom, and warmth form the foundation of this sparkling collection. Wolitzer is a natural-born storyteller whose rigor, attention, and generosity create miracles on each and every page." -- Tayari Jones "Hilma Wolitzer sees the miraculous, and the tragic, in modest lives and domestic particulars-wonders that might pass as ordinary events to the untrained eye. She magnifies the world. She insists, in one gorgeous sentence after another, that there's no such thing as a usual hour, let alone a usual day." -- Michael Cunningham "How could you not love a collection of stories that begins with the titular Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket ? Wolitzer doesn't just brilliantly capture what we imagine is recognizable ordinary life, she reveals the unique magic that is so absolutely transcendent, it makes us see and live in the world differently. This is a fabulous collection brimming with the compassion, grace, and wit that Wolitzer is known for." -- Caroline Leavitt "In this acutely observed collection, Hilma Wolitzer considers the bonds of married love, emotional and erotic. With her trademark dry wit and abiding compassion, she explores the telling details of everyday life in ways that are unsettling, insightful, and wholly original. These stories will linger in your mind and get under your skin. They shimmer with life." -- Christina Baker Kline "Immensely gratifying, poignant, funny...breathtaking." -- Elizabeth Strout, from the Foreword "Thirteen timeless stories of what goes on between men and women, grounded in an optimism that is no stranger to sorrow. . . . Completing the trajectory of her early triumphs with a pandemic masterpiece, Wolitzer takes our breath away." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review "[A] sage collection of stories . . . Throughout, Wolitzer captures the feel of each moment with characters who charm with their honesty. The result is a set of engaging time capsules." -- Publishers Weekly "[Wolitzer] shows us the ever-shifting alliances of family life and ways in which love can both change and endure." -- New York Times "To read Hilma Wolitzer is to laugh in a special way and to allow yourself little intermissions of sheer satisfaction in which you lay the open book facedown on your heart and snuggle with the human race." -- Gail Godwin "Wolitzer's vision of the world, for all its sorrow, is often hilarious and always compassionate." -- New York Times Book Review "Wolitzer is a champ at the closely observed, droll novel of manners." -- NPR "Funny, wise, and touching." -- The Washington Post on AN AVAILABLE MAN, "Hilma Wolitzer's Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket is electric: with wit, with rage, with grief, with the kind of prose that makes you both laugh and thrill to the darker, spikier emotions just barely visible under the bright surface. What a wonderful collection of stories." -- Lauren Groff "Wit, wisdom, and warmth form the foundation of this sparkling collection. Wolitzer is a natural-born storyteller whose rigor, attention, and generosity create miracles on each and every page." -- Tayari Jones "Hilma Wolitzer sees the miraculous, and the tragic, in modest lives and domestic particulars-wonders that might pass as ordinary events to the untrained eye. She magnifies the world. She insists, in one gorgeous sentence after another, that there's no such thing as a usual hour, let alone a usual day." -- Michael Cunningham "How could you not love a collection of stories that begins with the titular Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket ? Wolitzer doesn't just brilliantly capture what we imagine is recognizable ordinary life, she reveals the unique magic that is so absolutely transcendent, it makes us see and live in the world differently. This is a fabulous collection brimming with the compassion, grace, and wit that Wolitzer is known for." -- Caroline Leavitt "In this acutely observed collection, Hilma Wolitzer considers the bonds of married love, emotional and erotic. With her trademark dry wit and abiding compassion, she explores the telling details of everyday life in ways that are unsettling, insightful, and wholly original. These stories will linger in your mind and get under your skin. They shimmer with life." -- Christina Baker Kline "Immensely gratifying, poignant, funny...breathtaking." -- Elizabeth Strout, from the Foreword "[A] sage collection of stories . . . Throughout, Wolitzer captures the feel of each moment with characters who charm with their honesty. The result is a set of engaging time capsules." -- Publishers Weekly "[Wolitzer] shows us the ever-shifting alliances of family life and ways in which love can both change and endure." -- New York Times "To read Hilma Wolitzer is to laugh in a special way and to allow yourself little intermissions of sheer satisfaction in which you lay the open book facedown on your heart and snuggle with the human race." -- Gail Godwin "Wolitzer's vision of the world, for all its sorrow, is often hilarious and always compassionate." -- New York Times Book Review "Wolitzer is a champ at the closely observed, droll novel of manners." -- NPR "Funny, wise, and touching." -- The Washington Post on AN AVAILABLE MAN, "Hilma Wolitzer's Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket is electric: with wit, with rage, with grief, with the kind of prose that makes you both laugh and thrill to the darker, spikier emotions just barely visible under the bright surface. What a wonderful collection of stories." -- Lauren Groff "Wit, wisdom, and warmth form the foundation of this sparkling collection. Wolitzer is a natural-born storyteller whose rigor, attention, and generosity create miracles on each and every page." -- Tayari Jones "Hilma Wolitzer sees the miraculous, and the tragic, in modest lives and domestic particulars-wonders that might pass as ordinary events to the untrained eye. She magnifies the world. She insists, in one gorgeous sentence after another, that there's no such thing as a usual hour, let alone a usual day." -- Michael Cunningham "How could you not love a collection of stories that begins with the titular Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket ? Wolitzer doesn't just brilliantly capture what we imagine is recognizable ordinary life, she reveals the unique magic that is so absolutely transcendent, it makes us see and live in the world differently. This is a fabulous collection brimming with the compassion, grace, and wit that Wolitzer is known for." -- Caroline Leavitt "In this acutely observed collection, Hilma Wolitzer considers the bonds of married love, emotional and erotic. With her trademark dry wit and abiding compassion, she explores the telling details of everyday life in ways that are unsettling, insightful, and wholly original. These stories will linger in your mind and get under your skin. They shimmer with life." -- Christina Baker Kline "Immensely gratifying, poignant, funny...breathtaking." -- Elizabeth Strout, from the Foreword "Thirteen timeless stories of what goes on between men and women, grounded in an optimism that is no stranger to sorrow. . . . Completing the trajectory of her early triumphs with a pandemic masterpiece, Wolitzer takes our breath away." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review "[A] sage collection of stories . . . Throughout, Wolitzer captures the feel of each moment with characters who charm with their honesty. The result is a set of engaging time capsules." -- Publishers Weekly "[Wolitzer] shows us the ever-shifting alliances of family life and ways in which love can both change and endure." -- New York Times "To read Hilma Wolitzer is to laugh in a special way and to allow yourself little intermissions of sheer satisfaction in which you lay the open book facedown on your heart and snuggle with the human race." -- Gail Godwin "Wolitzer's vision of the world, for all its sorrow, is often hilarious and always compassionate." -- New York Times Book Review "Wolitzer is a champ at the closely observed, droll novel of manners." -- NPR "Funny, wise, and touching." -- The Washington Post on AN AVAILABLE MAN "[A] sterling and ambushing retrospective collection. . . . [Wolitzer is] an artist with a deceptively light touch, creating stories of psychological and social incisiveness that are at once poised and lacerating. She deftly reveals how women are harshly judged and how women judge, how children are trapped in their parents' snares and snarls and how they escape. Delectably funny and radically insightful . . . . [ Today A Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket is] a striking and enlightening gathering of polestar short stories." -- Booklist "A timeless examination of the bonds that connect us and the staying power of love." -- TIME, "Hilma Wolitzer's Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket is electric: with wit, with rage, with grief, with the kind of prose that makes you both laugh and thrill to the darker, spikier emotions just barely visible under the bright surface. What a wonderful collection of stories." -- Lauren Groff "How could you not love a collection of stories that begins with the titular Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket ? Wolitzer doesn't just brilliantly capture what we imagine is recognizable ordinary life, she reveals the unique magic that is so absolutely transcendent, it makes us see and live in the world differently. This is a fabulous collection brimming with the compassion, grace, and wit that Wolitzer is known for." -- Caroline Leavitt "Hilma Wolitzer sees the miraculous, and the tragic, in modest lives and domestic particulars-wonders that might pass as ordinary events to the untrained eye. She magnifies the world. She insists, in one gorgeous sentence after another, that there's no such thing as a usual hour, let alone a usual day." -- Michael Cunningham "Immensely gratifying, poignant, funny...breathtaking." -- Elizabeth Strout, from the Foreword "[Wolitzer] shows us the ever-shifting alliances of family life and ways in which love can both change and endure." -- New York Times "To read Hilma Wolitzer is to laugh in a special way and to allow yourself little intermissions of sheer satisfaction in which you lay the open book facedown on your heart and snuggle with the human race." -- Gail Godwin "Wolitzer's vision of the world, for all its sorrow, is often hilarious and always compassionate." -- New York Times Book Review "Wolitzer is a champ at the closely observed, droll novel of manners." -- NPR "Funny, wise, and touching." -- The Washington Post on AN AVAILABLE MAN, "Hilma Wolitzer''s Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket is electric: with wit, with rage, with grief, with the kind of prose that makes you both laugh and thrill to the darker, spikier emotions just barely visible under the bright surface. What a wonderful collection of stories." -- Lauren Groff "Wit, wisdom, and warmth form the foundation of this sparkling collection. Wolitzer is a natural-born storyteller whose rigor, attention, and generosity create miracles on each and every page." -- Tayari Jones "Hilma Wolitzer sees the miraculous, and the tragic, in modest lives and domestic particulars-wonders that might pass as ordinary events to the untrained eye. She magnifies the world. She insists, in one gorgeous sentence after another, that there''s no such thing as a usual hour, let alone a usual day." -- Michael Cunningham "How could you not love a collection of stories that begins with the titular Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket ? Wolitzer doesn''t just brilliantly capture what we imagine is recognizable ordinary life, she reveals the unique magic that is so absolutely transcendent, it makes us see and live in the world differently. This is a fabulous collection brimming with the compassion, grace, and wit that Wolitzer is known for." -- Caroline Leavitt "In this acutely observed collection, Hilma Wolitzer considers the bonds of married love, emotional and erotic. With her trademark dry wit and abiding compassion, she explores the telling details of everyday life in ways that are unsettling, insightful, and wholly original. These stories will linger in your mind and get under your skin. They shimmer with life." -- Christina Baker Kline "Immensely gratifying, poignant, funny...breathtaking." -- Elizabeth Strout, from the Foreword "Thirteen timeless stories of what goes on between men and women, grounded in an optimism that is no stranger to sorrow. . . . Completing the trajectory of her early triumphs with a pandemic masterpiece, Wolitzer takes our breath away." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review "[A] sage collection of stories . . . Throughout, Wolitzer captures the feel of each moment with characters who charm with their honesty. The result is a set of engaging time capsules." -- Publishers Weekly "[Wolitzer] shows us the ever-shifting alliances of family life and ways in which love can both change and endure." -- New York Times "To read Hilma Wolitzer is to laugh in a special way and to allow yourself little intermissions of sheer satisfaction in which you lay the open book facedown on your heart and snuggle with the human race." -- Gail Godwin "Wolitzer''s vision of the world, for all its sorrow, is often hilarious and always compassionate." -- New York Times Book Review "Wolitzer is a champ at the closely observed, droll novel of manners." -- NPR "Funny, wise, and touching." -- The Washington Post on AN AVAILABLE MAN "[A] sterling and ambushing retrospective collection. . . . [Wolitzer is] an artist with a deceptively light touch, creating stories of psychological and social incisiveness that are at once poised and lacerating. She deftly reveals how women are harshly judged and how women judge, how children are trapped in their parents'' snares and snarls and how they escape. Delectably funny and radically insightful . . . . [ Today A Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket is] a striking and enlightening gathering of polestar short stories." -- Booklist "A timeless examination of the bonds that connect us and the staying power of love." -- TIME "Wolitzer has a gentle touch for conveying the nuances and humor to be found in small moments of intrigue... Throughout these dispatches from the American homefront, the family unit is formed, broken, pasted back together, mused over - but always serves as the anchor for Wolitzer''s narratives ... Intrigue may lead a story, but for Wolitzer the daily rituals of family always carry it." -- The New York Times Book Review, "[Wolitzer] shows us the ever-shifting alliances of family life and ways in which love can both change and endure." - New York Times "To read Hilma Wolitzer is to laugh in a special way and to allow yourself little intermissions of sheer satisfaction in which you lay the open book facedown on your heart and snuggle with the human race." - Gail Godwin "Wolitzer's vision of the world, for all its sorrow, is often hilarious and always compassionate." - New York Times Book Review " Wolitzer is a champ at the closely observed, droll novel of manners." - NPR "Funny, wise, and touching." - The Washington Post on AN AVAILABLE MAN, "Hilma Wolitzer's Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket is electric: with wit, with rage, with grief, with the kind of prose that makes you both laugh and thrill to the darker, spikier emotions just barely visible under the bright surface. What a wonderful collection of stories." -- Lauren Groff "How could you not love a collection of stories that begins with the titular Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket ? Wolitzer doesn't just brilliantly capture what we imagine is recognizable ordinary life, she reveals the unique magic that is so absolutely transcendent, it makes us see and live in the world differently. This is a fabulous collection brimming with the compassion, grace, and wit that Wolitzer is known for." -- Caroline Leavitt "Hilma Wolitzer sees the miraculous, and the tragic, in modest lives and domestic particulars-wonders that might pass as ordinary events to the untrained eye. She magnifies the world. She insists, in one gorgeous sentence after another, that there's no such thing as a usual hour, let alone a usual day." -- Michael Cunningham "Immensely gratifying, poignant, funny...breathtaking." -- Elizabeth Strout, from the Foreword "[Wolitzer] shows us the ever-shifting alliances of family life and ways in which love can both change and endure." -- New York Times "To read Hilma Wolitzer is to laugh in a special way and to allow yourself little intermissions of sheer satisfaction in which you lay the open book facedown on your heart and snuggle with the human race." -- Gail Godwin "Wolitzer's vision of the world, for all its sorrow, is often hilarious and always compassionate." -- New York Times Book Review "Wolitzer is a champ at the closely observed, droll novel of manners." -- NPR "Funny, wise, and touching." -- The Washington Post on AN AVAILABLE MAN "Wit, wisdom, and warmth form the foundation of this sparkling collection. Wolitzer is a natural-born storyteller whose rigor, attention, and generosity create miracles on each and every page." -- Tayari Jones, "Hilma Wolitzer's Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket is electric: with wit, with rage, with grief, with the kind of prose that makes you both laugh and thrill to the darker, spikier emotions just barely visible under the bright surface. What a wonderful collection of stories." -- Lauren Groff "Wit, wisdom, and warmth form the foundation of this sparkling collection. Wolitzer is a natural-born storyteller whose rigor, attention, and generosity create miracles on each and every page." -- Tayari Jones "Hilma Wolitzer sees the miraculous, and the tragic, in modest lives and domestic particulars-wonders that might pass as ordinary events to the untrained eye. She magnifies the world. She insists, in one gorgeous sentence after another, that there's no such thing as a usual hour, let alone a usual day." -- Michael Cunningham "How could you not love a collection of stories that begins with the titular Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket ? Wolitzer doesn't just brilliantly capture what we imagine is recognizable ordinary life, she reveals the unique magic that is so absolutely transcendent, it makes us see and live in the world differently. This is a fabulous collection brimming with the compassion, grace, and wit that Wolitzer is known for." -- Caroline Leavitt "In this acutely observed collection, Hilma Wolitzer considers the bonds of married love, emotional and erotic. With her trademark dry wit and abiding compassion, she explores the telling details of everyday life in ways that are unsettling, insightful, and wholly original. These stories will linger in your mind and get under your skin. They shimmer with life." -- Christina Baker Kline "Immensely gratifying, poignant, funny...breathtaking." -- Elizabeth Strout, from the Foreword "Thirteen timeless stories of what goes on between men and women, grounded in an optimism that is no stranger to sorrow. . . . Completing the trajectory of her early triumphs with a pandemic masterpiece, Wolitzer takes our breath away." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review "[A] sage collection of stories . . . Throughout, Wolitzer captures the feel of each moment with characters who charm with their honesty. The result is a set of engaging time capsules." -- Publishers Weekly "[Wolitzer] shows us the ever-shifting alliances of family life and ways in which love can both change and endure." -- New York Times "To read Hilma Wolitzer is to laugh in a special way and to allow yourself little intermissions of sheer satisfaction in which you lay the open book facedown on your heart and snuggle with the human race." -- Gail Godwin "Wolitzer's vision of the world, for all its sorrow, is often hilarious and always compassionate." -- New York Times Book Review "Wolitzer is a champ at the closely observed, droll novel of manners." -- NPR "Funny, wise, and touching." -- The Washington Post on AN AVAILABLE MAN "[A] sterling and ambushing retrospective collection. . . . [Wolitzer is] an artist with a deceptively light touch, creating stories of psychological and social incisiveness that are at once poised and lacerating. She deftly reveals how women are harshly judged and how women judge, how children are trapped in their parents' snares and snarls and how they escape. Delectably funny and radically insightful . . . . [ Today A Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket is] a striking and enlightening gathering of polestar short stories." -- Booklist
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813.6
Synopsis
An NPR Best Book of the Year A New York Times Editors' Choice A People magazine "Book of the Week" A Minneapolis Star Tribune Holiday Pick A Kirkus "Fully Booked" Editors Pick An Electric Literature Best Short Story Collection of the Year Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize The uncannily relevant, deliciously clear-eyed collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning "American literary treasure" ( Boston Globe ), ripe for rediscovery--with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout. From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer--now ninety-one years old and at the top of her game--has gained a reputation as one of our best fiction writers, who "raises ordinary people and everyday occurrences to a new height." ( Washington Post ) These collected short stories--most of them originally published in magazines including Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post , in the 1960s and 1970s, along with a new story that brings her early characters into the present--are evocative of an era that still resonates deeply today. In the title story, a bystander tries to soothe a woman who seems to have cracked under the pressures of her life. And in several linked stories throughout, the relationship between the narrator and her husband unfolds in telling and often hilarious vignettes. Of their time and yet timeless, Wolitzer's stories zero in on the domestic sphere with wit, candor, grace, and an acutely observant eye. Brilliantly capturing the tensions and contradictions of daily life, Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket is full of heart and insight, providing a lens into a world that was often unseen at the time, and often overlooked now--reintroducing a beloved writer to be embraced by a whole new generation of readers., The uncannily relevant, deliciously clear-eyed collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning "American literary treasure" ( Boston Globe ), ripe for rediscovery -- with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout., An NPR Best Book of the Year A New York Times Editors' Choice A People magazine "Book of the Week" A Minneapolis Star Tribune Holiday Pick A Kirkus "Fully Booked" Editors Pick An Electric Literature Best Short Story Collection of the Year The uncannily relevant, deliciously clear-eyed collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning "American literary treasure" ( Boston Globe ), ripe for rediscovery--with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout. From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer--now ninety-one years old and at the top of her game--has gained a reputation as one of our best fiction writers, who "raises ordinary people and everyday occurrences to a new height." ( Washington Post ) These collected short stories--most of them originally published in magazines including Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post , in the 1960s and 1970s, along with a new story that brings her early characters into the present--are evocative of an era that still resonates deeply today. In the title story, a bystander tries to soothe a woman who seems to have cracked under the pressures of her life. And in several linked stories throughout, the relationship between the narrator and her husband unfolds in telling and often hilarious vignettes. Of their time and yet timeless, Wolitzer's stories zero in on the domestic sphere with wit, candor, grace, and an acutely observant eye. Brilliantly capturing the tensions and contradictions of daily life, Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket is full of heart and insight, providing a lens into a world that was often unseen at the time, and often overlooked now--reintroducing a beloved writer to be embraced by a whole new generation of readers.
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PS3573.O563T63 2021
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- r***0 (635)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseRecommended Seller with very fast shipping, excellent communication as the seller responded to all my messages, the book came exactly as advertised and was packaged very well. Another great thing, was I changed my mind and asked to return it and the seller quickly responded to my message and allowed me to return it without any hassle. Also, great prices and I would buy from again. Thanks for a great transaction!!The Pro Football Hall of Fame 50th Anniversary Book: Where Greatnes - GOOD (#275561126843)
- 0***a (557)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThis item arrived as described, fast and packaged very well . I only received half of my order on one day so I contacted the seller who and with fast and a great help. I received the rest of my order a few days later due to the carrier missing the third box in his vehicle. I am a very happy customer who has done business with in the past multiple time and will do business with again in the future. I trust and like this seller. You will be happy with the value and condition of your purchase.I'm Just Here for More Food: Food x Mixing + Heat = Baking - Hardcover - GOOD (#266005238505)
- u***a (260)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseI have purchased from them many times. This time, and on occasion I have had an issue with the product, but the seller is graceful about correcting errors. They do a huge volume and sometimes have sent the wrong book or one of their multiples that does not match the description. With swift communication, the seller always resolves the issue. The shipping speed & packaging is excellent. I will continue buying from this seller!Moving Pictures - Mass Market Paperback By Terry Pratchett - ACCEPTABLE (#256674790061)