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Gerda Stein is a brilliant, successful civil liberties lawyer in New York, a champion of the oppressed, an exacting, rational woman who never repeats her mistakes. But she can't erase her prodigal daughter, Renata, who has returned after an eight year abscence, unwed, with a child in tow , hoping to make peace.
Renata is aimless, sensual, irrational, yet she too has princip
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Mass Market Paperback
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276 pages
Published
July 12th 1981
by Ballantine Books
(first published 1976)
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Feb 07, 2013
Nathan "N.R." Gaddis
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So far as I can see, none of my Friends have read Rosellen Brown. She is interviewed by Tom LeClair in
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN: Interviews with Contemporary American Novelists
, 1983. An interest by LeClair is no small thing. Perhaps someone will take up the cause of her books, make a decision about them. Forgottenness is not irremediable.
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Rosellen Brown (born May 12, 1939) is an American author, and has been an instructor of English and creative writing at several universities, including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Houston. She has won several grants and awards for her work. The 1996 film Before and After was adapted from her novel of the same name.
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