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"Ann Birstein is wry; she is witty; she is coruscating on thin ice."
- New York TImes Book Review |
My BooksVanity Fare
It's the mid-1970's, a time of political and social turmoil. Watergate is on everybody's mind, and the women's movement is the subject of much contention. "Laugh lightly...at your own risk." What I Saw at the Fair
"A delicious, readable memoir about the fortunes of a beautiful, intelligent woman in an era when beautiful, intelligent women had no rights." Erica Jong The Rabbi on Forty-seventh Street
"A delightful biography of the author's father." The Last of the True Believers
"Another fine Ann Birstein novel. Acute, moving, beautifully executed." American Children
"Ann Birstein writes with such fluidity that her novel seems to end only moments after it has begun." The New York Times Dickie's List
"Funny and tragic, this is an important work by one of the most feeling and observant women writing today." Summer Situations
"Everyone, men included, will like Birstein's book....Her world is altogether contemporary, her observation altogether accurate." Diane Johnson The Sweet Birds of Gorham
"A seriously gifted writer with a freshly minted flavor all her own." Truman Capote The Troublemaker
"Ann Birstein has a very bright talent." The New Yorker Star of Glass
Winner of the Dodd Mead Intercollegiate Literary Fellowship |
