ALLEGRA GOODMAN

Rok 1985. W niezależnym instytucie badawczym przy Harvardzie, w laboratorium walczącym o utrzymanie się na powierzchni w środowisku słynącym z bezwzględnej rywalizacji, dochodzi do przełomowego odkrycia. Młody stażysta Cliff Bannaker znajduje sposób, by wyleczyć nowotworowe guzy sutka u myszy. Pracownicy laboratorium świętują sukces. Oprócz...

A NovelNATIONAL BESTSELLEREmily and Jessamine Bach are opposites in every way: Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is the CEO of Veritech, twenty-three-year-old Jess is an environmental activist and graduate student in philosophy. Pragmatic Emily is making a fortune in Silicon Valley, romantic Jess works in an antiquarian bookstore. Emily is rational and...

Hailed as a writer of uncommon clarity by the New Yorker, National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman has dazzled readers with her acclaimed works of fiction, including such beloved bestsellers as The Family Markowitz and Kaaterskill Falls. Now she returns with a bracing new novel, at once an intricate mystery and a rich human drama set in...

In The Succession, the members of a prosperous Hawaii synagogue agree on almost nothing. But when the president of the synagogue absconds with a small fortune, far deeperand more troublingrifts emerge...In The Closet, Evelyn's sister flees her family to take up residence in the atticwhile the shunned Evelyn finds herself slipping into the...

Allegra Goodman has delighted readers with her critically acclaimed collections Total Immersion and The Family Markowitz, and her celebrated first novel, Kaaterskill Falls, which was a national bestseller and a National Book Award finalist. Abandoned by her folk-dancing partner, Gary, in a Honolulu hotel room, Sharon realizes she could return to...

In the summer of '76, the Shulmans and the Melishes migrate to Kaaterskill, the tiny town in upstate New York where Orthodox Jews and Yankee year-rounders live side by side from June through August. Elizabeth Shulman, a devout follower of Rav Elijah Kirshner and the mother of five daughters, is restless. She needs a project of her own, outside her...