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Original Sins, " Alther's second novel, begins like "Kinflicks" in a small town in Tennessee, but instead of recounting the life and loves of one character, this broad-canvas book follows five characters from childhood into adulthood. They called themselves "The Five" and spent their childhoods trading dreams in the branches of the Castle Tree. They were convinced that they were special -- and they were, even though their dreams did not work o...

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A new novel, funny, wise, moving, true, as only Lisa Alther can write ("she had me laughing at 4 in the morning" --Doris Lessing), set on a cruise ship, about a woman, a doctor in charge of the ship's clinic, recovering from the loss of her longtime female lover, a much-admired writer, and coping with the high-wire madcappery of cruise ship life as she reckons with her past and feels her way into the future.Dr. Jessie Drake, in her mid-sixties...

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Eine Frau mit Vierzig verändert radikal ihr bisheriges Leben. Illusionen gehen zu Bruch, und der Boden beginnt unter den Füßen zu schwanken. Aber langsam wird die Wirklichkeit zum Freund.Unnachahmlich und lebensnah beschreibt Lisa Alther die ganze Komik und den ganzen Ernst einer Lebenskrise.

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America's most notorious feud began in 1865 with the murder of Asa McCoy, a Union soldier, by a Hatfield relative. The grudges and retribution continued over years of bloody violence, a Supreme Court ruling, and Kentucky's last hanging. Here is a new look at the infamous story of the Hatfields and the McCoys, a historic rivalry that still captures the public's imagination.

Meet Ginny Babcock, a woman of the 1960s, flower child, cheerleader, dutiful daughter and wayward wifeThe classic novel of the 1960s woman, yearning for security, desperate for adventureThe clever, wicked, honest and tragic forerunner to BRIDGET JONES

Lisa Alther searches for her mixed-race Melungeon ancestors and discovers a unique piece of American history in this warm, sharply funny memoir.

This unique three-part novel assumes that, regardless of what Americans learn in school, the Southeast was not a barren wilderness when the English arrived at Jamestown. Based on extensive research into the racial mixing that occurred in the early years of southeastern settlement, this provocative multigenerational story shows that these people did not simply vanish. You will not be able to put this novel down without wondering, "Where will it...

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These stories, written over the course of Lisa Alther's career, are set in the three places that have meant the most to her. The first five stories reflect Alther's early years growing up in the Southern mountains. Four stories are set in Vermont in the milieu that shaped her as a young adult. The final three stories are set in New York City, where her characters, unmoored by nature or by tight-knit communities of like-minded friends, search f...