HEARTS - Softcover

Hilma Wolitzer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671431463 ISBN 13: 9780671431464

Publisher: Pocket, 1982

Synopsis

Recently widowed Linda Reisman and her thirteen-year-old stepdaughter, Robin, travel from New Jersey to California to find a new home for Robin, and their experiences on the road force both women to mature quickly

About this title

About the Author

Hilma Wolitzer is the author of several novels, including An Available Man, Summer Reading, The Doctor’s Daughter, Hearts, Ending, and Tunnel of Love, as well as a nonfiction book, The Company of Writers. She is a recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Barnes & Noble Writer for Writers Award.  She has taught writing at the University of Iowa, New York University, and Columbia University.

Review

“Extraordinary . . . raises ordinary people and everyday occurrences to a new height . . . Hearts is a novel for our time.”
–The Washington Post Book World

“Splendid . . . flawless . . . Few readers will fail to be moved.”
–The New Republic

“There is something so gently comic in Wolitzer’s way of seeing things, and so vital in her way of recording them, that even the very familiar somehow seems fresh.”
–The New York Times

“Hearts breeds devotion to good writing and a hunger for more of the same. . . . A riveting, poignant story.”
–Detroit Free Press

“Wolitzer makes art of ordinary life. . . . Hearts is the kind of novel that almost reads itself.”
–The Boston Globe

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0671431463
• ISBN 13: 9780671431464
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1