A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That
A Novel
$38.02
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
27 July 2005
Summary
Rachel Spark is an irreverent, sexually eager, financially unstable thirty-year-old college instructor who moves back home when her mother is diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. As she tries to ease her mother, a perpetually cheerful woman, toward the inevitable, Rachel turns from one man to the next – sometimes comically, sometimes catastrophically – as if her own survival depended upon it. Ella Bloom, an adult student in Rachel’s poetry class, has aspirations beyond her work at a local …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780743257763 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0743257766 |
| Author: | Lisa Glatt |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 27 July 2005 |
| Weight: | 322g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
“An appealingly dark first novel…authentic, substantial and engaging.” – The New York Times Book Review“Glatt’s brave and vulnerable observations channel the provocative writer Anne Sexton….She dares to infuse dark humor where tear-jerking sentimentality would be easier….A powerful debut.” – The San Diego Union-Tribune“A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That adds an emphatic exclamation point to the start of a promising career.” – Vanity Fair“Razor sharp and exceedingly funny. A heartfelt and troubling book about how things go wrong, time after time, and how we manage in spite of it.” – Frederick Barthelme
About The Author
Lisa Glatt
Lisa Glatt was the winner of the 2002 Mississippi Review Prize for fiction. Her work has appeared in various publications, including Columbia, Other Voices, Indiana Review, and Swink. She lives in Long Beach, California, with her husband, the poet David Hernandez. Visit her website at
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