The Spanish Doctor

Literature & Fiction

COHEN, Matt

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

Spanning four decades from the 1940s to the present and set against the backdrops of Paris, Jerusalem, Cambridge, and Toronto, this novel focuses on a sensuous female astronomer's attempt to free herself from the past

Nadine

Penguin Books, Toronto

The Colours of War. The Salem Novels

Penguin Group

At the heart of Emotional Arithmetic is a memorable woman: Melanie Winters, mother and lover, middle-aged, eccentric, courageous, quirkily unpredictable - and deeply marked by her past. For behind Melanie's present life lies the terrible story of how, as a girl, she was interned at Drancy in Paris - the way-camp to Auschwitz, where she realized that her parents would never return. For two years, the friendship of an English boy, Christopher Lewis, and the protection of an older man, Jakob Bronski, helped her survive. Years later, Melanie is able to offer Bronski, now an elderly heroic Russian dissident and a veteran of a Soviet gulag, a home with her family. Christopher, meanwhile, has become a novelist, and he too reenters her life. As the two men converge, the past swiftly upsets Melanie's precarious mental balance. She must confront again the demons of her past, and the difficult balancing of guilt and love, good and evil, duty and desire.

Emotional Arithmetic

Genre Fiction

St Martins Pr

"Paul Stevens is a seller of used books, a lover of Flaubert and Dickens, young and unsure of himself - until he meets Judith. But unsettling currents revolve around Judith. When Paul discovers that his brother Henry - a man most at home in pool halls and at the racetrack - has his own connections to Judith's secret world, the threads that tie him to the people he loves begin to connect in frightening ways. At the center of the web is one man who holds both Judith's and Henry's lives in his hands." "Around this compelling portrait of a young man's coming of age in the disintegrating center of a big city, Matt Cohen has woven a deeply human story of relationships - of the intricacies of love and desire that hold lovers together, and the ambiguities of shared history that bind brothers and families."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Bookseller

History & Criticism

A lonely and tormented man returns to his small hometown of West Gull, Ontario, to heal his family's dark legacy of violence and alcohol abuse, reconcile with his young daughter, and to come to terms with the spirit of his late mother, killed several years earlier in a tragic accident. Winner of Canada's Governor General Award.

Elizabeth and After

Picador USA

"Matt Cohen's ELIZABETH AND AFTER is one of the best novels of smalltown life in North America that I have ever read." -Wayne Johnston, author of THE COLONY OF UNREQUITED DREAMS

Elizabeth and After: A Novel

Picador

A collection of fifteen short stories by a noted Canadian author noted for his disturbing fantasies and haunting insights. By the author of "Columbus and the Fat Lady. "

Night flights: Stories new and selected

DOUBLEDAY

Night flights : stories new and selected

Doubleday Canada ; Doubleday

Knopf Canada

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