Bøker av Linsey Abrams

Our History in New York covers a single year in the lives of narrator Chloe, her long-time lover, Helen, and their friends. From AIDS to the glory of Greenwich Village to romance and aging, the novel addresses time, art, mortality, and community at a century's end. The New York Times said of this nationally reviewed author: ';Abrams has a superb talent for the specific . . . She [has] her own style-a mixture of introspection, common sense, daydreaming and recollection-and controls it beautifully.' Sojourner called ';each chapter an exquisite short story.... Abrams paints... neighborhoods with the precision of the old Dutch Masters.'

Ms. magazine called Charting by the Stars ';a memorable account of growing up about the ways we invent and reinvent ourselves reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's Surfacing.' Linsey Abrams' passionate and eloquent first novel chronicles one girl's coming of age, from a 1950s childhood into the '60s world of New York. Her love affair with another woman begins a profound shift of identity and world. The New York Times said of this nationally reviewed novel: ';Abrams has a superb talent for the specific.... She [has] her own stylea mixture of introspection, common sense, daydreaming and recollection-and controls it beautifully.'