Tells the stories of twenty-nine women, including Charlotte Corday, Joan of Arc, Clara Schumann, Simone Weil, and Adele Hugo

A Full Moon of Women

Literature & Fiction

Molinaro, Ursule

United States

Dutton

In a yearly ritual the citizens of ancient Athens chased a couple in wedding regalia through the streets under a hail of stones, to shouts of "Out with sickness and famine! In with health and wealth!" The broken bodies were left to decompose outside the city gates. Normally the victims would come from among society's downtrodden or outcasts, and exchange their lives for a year of luxury at the city's expense. But in defiance of tradition, and as an expression of protest, a poet from an aristocratic family volunteers her flawless 30-year-old body. This is her story.

The New Moon With the Old Moon in Her Arms: A True Story Assembled from Scholarly Hearsay

McPherson & Co

Needlepoint is a short story entirely written in dialogue. It permits readers to picture their favorite elderly couple sitting at dinner, needling each other about the past U.M.

Needlepoint

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Red Dust

This novel tells the Homeric story of Troy from the perspective of the woman who was condemned not to be believed -- the perfect spokesperson for a contemporary feminist novel. Written with Molinaro's typical flair for concision, Cassandra is second only to the classic Positions with White Roses as Molinaro's best novel. And Molinaro has been sensitive to readers whose knowledge of Greek mythology is imperfect (meaning most of us) by providing a witty glossary of the mortals and gods who people this dramatic and subversive story of courage and sacrifice.

The Autobiography of Cassandra, Princess and Prophetess of Troy

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Archer Editions Pr

After twelve years a young woman returns home to settle accounts with her doformed twin sister Laura. But Laura is inexplicably absent, and the visiting daughter's parents are enmeshed in their own emotional warfare. With the deceptive simplicity that has become Molinaro's literary hallmark, the stage is set for an explosive confrontation as the parents and visiting daughter take their positions around the traditional family table, with its centerpiece, an elegant arrangement of white roses.

Positions With White Roses: A Novel

Thirteen: Stories

Fugitive drug dealers and disincarnated spirits, vengeful lovers and rebel slaves, French executioners and runaway aristocrats populate the stories of this new collection by Ursule Molinaro. Representing Molinaro’s most exceptional short fiction of the last twenty years, these mesmerizing tales take us into private worlds where the bizarre is a quietly insistent force and "extreme states of mind can be hidden from ordinary perception and from one’s own consciousness...an unbalanced, violent world where the distance between people is always too wide for them to cross" (Kirkus Reviews). "Molinaro observes her characters," in the estimation of Publisher’s Weekly, "with unusual acuity," presenting these thirteen stories in a brisk, straightforward, inimitable style.

McPherson

Subtitled "29 word portraits of notable women from different times and places, + 1 void of course," this book is a powerful, unsettling vision in the tradition of Anais Nin and Djuna Barnes of those heroines whose rebellious daring shaped the meaning of the feminine experience. In these miniature biographies of Charlotte Corday, Joan of Arc, Lucy Goodale Thurston, Clara Schumann, Simone Weil, Alice Neel, Zenobia, Mu-Lan Hwa, Adele Hugo, among many others, and naturally including Snow White, Molinaro's prose impacts with consistent force, resurrecting these forgotten or disparaged women in all their talent and suffering.

A Full Moon of Women: 29 Word Portraits of Notable Women

Community & Culture

For this trilogy of short novels--her first new book in six years--Ursule Molinaro drew upon a wealth of sources (including Balzac, Flaubert, and Hildegard of Bingen) to transform the grotesqueries of our time into timeless tales.  Angel on Fire presents Clara Corvo, who was born with three peculiarities--a cloven hoof, phenomenal intelligence, and clairvoyance. Her mother finds her unbearable, and to escape her family takes a young student as a lover. When six-year-old Clara matriculates at Harvard Law School, an almost classical conclusion is inevitable.  In twenty letters gathered for the pending canonization of Jacob Erskine Wooster, a picture emerges not of humility but of large contraditions in an ordinary man whose beatification is as strange as his life. Saint Boy is Diane Arbus in prose.  In April in Paris, Molinaro spins Southern gothic into French embroidery. An American woman out of her element wherever she happens to be.

Demons & Divas: Three Novels

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Mara is a translator. In her Greenwich Village apartment she successfully renders her native Czech into best-selling English, until one fine night she notices alarming similarities between her own Prague childhood and a "brilliant novel" by a rising young star of Czech literature. Making contact with the author, Mara realizes that he had been the protégé-perhaps the lover-of her now dead novelist mother. She threatens to reveal his plagiarism of her past and her mother's papers and is soon caught up in a cycle of threats and counter-threats. 
As the layers of deception in the lives of Mara, her mother and the young author are steadily revealed, the boundaries between literary creation and lived experience begin to evaporate ...

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A Full Moon of Women

The New Moon With the Old Moon in Her Arms: A True Story Assembled from Scholarly Hearsay

Needlepoint

The Autobiography of Cassandra, Princess and Prophetess of Troy

Positions With White Roses: A Novel

Thirteen: Stories

Thirteen: Stories

A Full Moon of Women: 29 Word Portraits of Notable Women

Demons & Divas: Three Novels

Fat Skeletons