Order Now A few words from Joyce Maynard aboutparental estrangement PRAISE FORHOW THE LIGHT GETS IN “In turns joyful and heartbreaking,How the Light Gets Inisa wise and bittersweet portrait of a complicated family. Joyce Maynard writes the kind of books that readers adore –bighearted, beauti...
As in her best-known novel, "To Die For" - in which a newscaster pays her boy toy to kill her husband - Joyce Maynard begins with a flashy tabloid premise. But instead of the cool, cutting satire of the earlier work, "Labor Day," narrated by Henry, is suffused with tenderness, drea...
Joyce Maynard wrote her first memoir, "Looking Back," when she was 19; now, at 44, she has written her second, "At Home in the World." In the 25 intervening years, Maynard bought a house, nearly had a nervous breakdown, lost her virginity to the soundtrack of "Pippin," met Mary ...
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The Endless Allure of Fictional Betrayal in Books by Melanie Benjamin, Joyce MaynardThe Swans of Fifth Avenue By Melanie Benjamin Delacorte Press 341 pages, $28 Under the Influence...Brady, Karen
In a telling passage ofJohn Maynard Keynes: Vol 2 The Economist As Saviour 1920-1937, Keynes’ biographer Robert Skidelsky informs us that (bold and italicised emphasis added): In Keynes’s view capitalism’s driving force is avicewhich he called “love of money” … in the General Theory...
(But then, my parents never seem to recognize the oddness or danger in my hitchhiking , either.)" Like a great many serious young women of her generation, Maynard had to raise herself. No one helped her reconcile ambition ("male") with the alien state of "femininity." At Home in the...