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Black & Whiteby Dani ShapiroISBN 1400032121 (1-4000-3212-1)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black & White'Book summary:In Dani Shapiro's captivating new novel, a mother struggles to protect her young daughter from the dark secrets of her past. Haunting and insightful, Black & White explores the notions of family and motherhood, inspiration and obligation, and is sure to appeal to fans of Jodi Picoult and Anita Shreve. Find out more about Shapiro's artistic practices and influences below. --Daphne Durham
10 Second Interview: A Few Words with Dani Shapiro
Q: What is your writing process like? Has it changed from book to book?
A: As I was doing my usual flailing around before I began to write Black & White, I found that I had some questions in mind that I hoped to explore, if not answer--and those questions very much came out of my preoccupations as a writer and as a mother of a young child: is it possible to be as fully absorbed as one needs to be to produce good, strong art--and be equally fully absorbed in the raising of small children? What happens when that delicate balancing act teeters? And also, as someone who has written quite a bit of personal non-fiction, I wondered: where is the line--or perhaps it's less of a line and more of a murky gray area--when it comes to writing about the personal stuff when there's this little person who's involved, a person who will grow up and read it some day? These ideas began to really preoccupy me, and finally the novel started to form itself around them. When I begin the first draft of a book, I write longhand. I've become quite attached to these particular spiral-bound notebooks that can only be purchased in my in-laws' hometown, and so whenever they come to visit I ask them to bring me a pile. I think most writers indulge in magical thinking when it comes to the process, and many of us require talismans; mine are these notebooks. I used to only write on the computer, but I've found, in the last number of years, that I feel much freer to have no idea where I'm going when I'm writing by hand. There's something very neat--perhaps too neat--about the blank computer screen, and the ease of cutting and pasting, moving whole blocks of text around. For me, it's infinitely more satisfying to scribble and cross things out and make big sweeping arrows and asterisks as I'm working on drafts. It looks messy and complicated--it looks like what it is. On those early pages I feel like I can see a map, or a diagram, of my process.
Q: What author/s have inspired you?
A: In the big, enduring ways, as a literary backbone: Tolstoy, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Philip Roth, Joan Didion, Saul Bellow, Grace Paley. And while I was writing Black & White, Alice Munro's stories in Runaway and Ian McEwan's novel Saturday were immensely important in my grappling with understanding how to create a close third person narrative without losing the periphery.
Q: What are you working on now?
A: I'm trying to start a new novel. Viriginia Woolf wrote this great passage in her diary, after she finished The Waves: "I must hastily provide my mind with something else, or it will again become pecking and wretched." I'm a much nicer person when I'm working on a book. When I begin I have so little to go on--a feeling, a sense, an image or two. It's like coaxing shadows out of the corners.
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Family Historyby Dani ShapiroISBN 1400032113 (1-4000-3211-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Family History'Book summary:From the author of the best-selling memoir slow motion ("chilling . . . Her vision is unblinking"-new york times book review; "riveting . . . A breathtaking combination of candor and bravado"-san francisco chronicle), a ferociously paced new novel about a woman losing control of her life, her marriage, and her kids, and discovering that you can do everything right and still find the world you've made slipping away.rachel jensen has it all: a husband she adores, challenging work in art restoration, a terrific teenage daughter, and a new baby on the way. Then her infant son is injured in an accident in her daughter's arms, and that accident begets a terrifying lie. Set in a small massachusetts town, family history is about a family spiraling toward disintegration, the terrible force of guilt in children, and a mother's nightmarish realization that she cannot protect her own child. As the life the jensens have so carefully built begins its slow collapse, we see with excruciating clarity the frailty of our strongest allegiances and the precarious ledge upon which our most vital relations-marriage, parenthood-are balanced. Family history blazes through this intimate and highly charged territory with stunning velocity, and marks a bold new step forward for the prodigiously gifted dani shapiro [via]
More editions of Family History:
- Family History: ISBN 0375415475 (0-375-41547-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Family History: ISBN 0375432795 (0-375-43279-5)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print - Family History: ISBN 0606313419 (0-606-31341-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Family History: ISBN 1400032113 (1-4000-3211-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- Family History: ISBN 0375415475 (0-375-41547-5)
Fugitive Blueby Dani ShapiroISBN 0385421079 (0-385-42107-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Picturing the Wreckby Dani ShapiroISBN 0452277698 (0-452-27769-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Playing With Fireby Dani ShapiroISBN 0446361879 (0-446-36187-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Slow Motion : A Memoir of How a Life Gone Terribly Wrong Can Be Rescued Through Tragedyby Dani ShapiroISBN 0156008475 (0-15-600847-5)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slow Motion'Book summary:Dani Shapiro was rescued by tragedy. At the age of 23 she is a wreck. A Sarah Lawrence college dropout, she is living as the mistress--one of many, she would later find out--of her best friend's stepfather, Lenny, a high-profile New York City lawyer. It is the height of the excessive '80s, and Lenny goes to extravagant lengths to keep his woman--putting her up in a large downtown apartment, draping her in furs and flashy gems, and spiriting her away by Concorde to Paris for weekend flings. When she isn't with Lenny, Shapiro leisurely courts an acting and modeling career and actively pursues her drug dealer, who delivers cocaine to her door. She is at an expensive spa in California--at a far remove from the middle-class, orthodox Jewish home in which she was raised--when, one snowy night, her parents' car careens into a highway median. When she returns to New Jersey, to her parents' hospital bedsides, she begins the journey to discover and mine her inner strength. She succeeds, and though the process is as arduous as it is painful, Shapiro finds within herself the power to nurse her mother through nearly 100 broken bones, to survive her father's death, and to reset the course of her life. Slow Motion ends where its subject's troubles began: with Shapiro, newly single, re-enrolling as an undergrad at Sarah Lawrence.
Shapiro, who is the author of three previous novels, writes sparely and lacks the excessive self-consciousness that plagues some memoirs. She develops her story carefully, drawing readers ever closer into her most intimate thoughts and fears. This honest, and sometimes brutal account of loss and recovery is an inspiration. [via]
More editions of Slow Motion : A Memoir of How a Life Gone Terribly Wrong Can Be Rescued Through Tragedy:
- Slow Motion : A Memoir of How a Life Gone Terribly Wrong Can Be Rescued Through Tragedy: ISBN 0747543747 (0-7475-4374-7)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Slow Motion : A Memoir of How a Life Gone Terribly Wrong Can Be Rescued Through Tragedy: ISBN 0747541868 (0-7475-4186-8)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Slow Motion : A Memoir of How a Life Gone Terribly Wrong Can Be Rescued Through Tragedy: ISBN 0679456317 (0-679-45631-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Slow Motion: ISBN 0156008475 (0-15-600847-5)
Softcover, Harvest Books
- Slow Motion : A Memoir of How a Life Gone Terribly Wrong Can Be Rescued Through Tragedy: ISBN 0747543747 (0-7475-4374-7)
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