“A wickedly funny comedy of erotic manners” (The Atlantic), with a foreword by Phyllis RoseOutrageous and outrageously funny, The Girl That He Marries is a swift satiric jab at love and romance, a novel that gets right to the heart of the modern man/woman relationship. It is the story of Stephanie―nearly thirty and still single, a bright and attractive young woman with an unerring instinct for unmarriageable men and a nagging fear she’s going to grow old alone.Enter Richard: urbane, ambitious, and eminently marriageable. The adored son of an adoring mother, Richard has been adroitly manipulating people all his life. He’s especially adroit at the game of love. Before she knows it, Stephanie is hooked on Richard’s games. But before Richard knows it, Stephanie has figured out the rules―and very soon is beating him at his own artful game. In the process, she twists herself into the girl he would marry―and becomes a very different woman. The trouble is, as Stephanie finds out too late, when you play the mating game, you risk getting stuck with the prize.Beneath its comic absurdities, The Girl That He Marries unpacks the deceptions of romance and tells a cautionary tale―for Stephanie is every woman who has reached that dangerous age where uncertainty and fear fuse with pop romantic notions, submerging integrity, and a sense of self. 

The girl that he marries: A novel

LERMAN, RHODA

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

"Lerman equals [Roth] in his own good game―the Jewish absurd." ―The New York Times A “bouncy, tongue-in-cheek” (Kirkus) satire on gender politics, Call Me Ishtar is the outrageous manifesto of a Goddess determined to right the wrongs of the 3000 year-old patriarchy. She is Ishtar: Mother Goddess, Queen of Heaven, Angel of Death, and Whore of Babylon, and, returning to earth in this most recent incarnation, suburban housewife and sexual subversive. Gallivanting through upstate New York, Ishtar breaks into a Hostess factory to taint its products, catapults a rock band to stardom via satanic rituals, and rises from the coffin at her own funeral.

Call Me Ishtar

doubleday& co.

Eleanor

Holt, Rinehard and Winston

SHe is Anna Eleanor Roosevelt ROosevelt and, in the summer of 1918, she is alone in her rented Washington home: her husband has gone off to tour the battlefields of Europe, her children to make a battlefield of Hyde Park. For the First time in thirteen years of marriage, she is alone and free. Not for the first time, she is afraid. She is thirty-three and she knows she knows what she is but not what she can become.

Eleanor : A Novel

Henry Holt Company

Fearful omens predict enormous changes, and the Beast of Time is loose upon the Island of Iona, in this tale in which the tenth century coexists with the twentieth, and science and religion clash

The Book of the Night

Literature & Fiction

Henry Holt Co.

This is a story about Ishtar, the Mother Goddess, Queen of Heaven, Angel of Death, Whore of Babylon, and, in this most recent incarnation, suburban housewife. She has returned to right the wrongs wreaked by 30 centuries of patriarchy.

Call me Ishtar

DOUBLEDAY

1st Womens Press 1986 edition paperback, vg++ to fine In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Womens Pr Ltd

The long-awaited reissue of the Jewish Book of the Year Award-winning novel of a young man who turns his back on his Jewish faithRhoda Lerman’s career spanned five decades, in which she wrote six critically-acclaimed novels. She is noted for her vivid imagination, wry humor, and arch social commentary. Her characters range from ancient deities to suburban housewives, from Eleanor Roosevelt to a recently deceased rabbi. Overlook is making her novels available again to a new audience, beginning with her definitive work, God’s Ear.When a rabbi opens his heart to God, every shnorrer in his congregation fills it with pain. Yussel Fetner’s ancestors had been such rabbis. Yussel, the last of the Fetner line, was not. Yussel turns his back on a thousand years of Fetner destiny, eschewing his family’s twinned piety and poverty to sell real estate in New York.But the history of a thousand years is not to be thrown away so lightly. On his death, Yussel’s father discovers he will be unable to enter heaven until Yussel repents and enters the faith. The old Rabbi will have to dip into a kit bag full of family lore, Hasidic tales, Kabbalistic wisdom, outright lies, and Jewish justifications to tea, trick, and torment his son until he accepts the pain of loving God.

God's Ear

United States

Steven and Linda Morris have an ideal marriage: intimate, open, collegial, comfortable. They have known each other as lovers and friends long enough to raise three children, to settle boundaries, to accumulate things. Steven has fallen asleep with The New Yorker rising and falling on the shores of his chest. It is our marriage, that magazine, with all its richness of things, its collections of culture, fur coats, pearls, four-star hotels, and the stories, mostly the stories, in which, as in our marriage, nothing happens. . . . We've talked about the magazine, almost talking about our lives. "Why would you want anything to happen in a story? Why would you want change?" he'd ask. Change was the enemy. . . . But something disturbed. Something out there rattled in the cornstalks, something I feared so deeply I was afraid to sleep on my own balcony at night. . . . And I was well aware that that something was, somehow, my self. Linda Morris is about to make a major change in her life. She is about to leave her best friend, who is her husband, and to leave her lover, who just may be a contract killer and who is, she suspects, out to kill her, contract or no. She is about to run away with a gorilla. Animal Acts is a quest novel unlike any we have seen before. On the surface, it is an antic tale for our times, the story of a woman of a certain age who runs away from her perfect husband and her dangerous lover only to find that she has unintentionally run away with a full-grown gorilla. On a deeper level, it is an exploration of the human-animal bond: Beginning as a search for self-consciousness, it ends in animal consciousness. En route, it puts a controversial spin on evolutionary theory, producing what can only be called the inevitable next stage in the gender wars. And through it all, Rhoda Lerman - magician, conjuror, word-juggler - persuades us along her manic path.

Animal Acts: A Novel

The author recounts a year in the life of a litter of Newfoundland puppies and the other Newfoundlands in her household who helped to rear the puppies, and offers her own insights on the bond between humans and dogs

In the Company of Newfies: A Shared Life

Science & Math

Technology

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The girl that he marries: A novel

Call Me Ishtar

Eleanor

Eleanor : A Novel

The Book of the Night

Call me Ishtar

The Book of the Night

God's Ear

Animal Acts: A Novel

In the Company of Newfies: A Shared Life