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Debra Dean
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Debra Dean, author of the bestselling THE MADONNAS
OF LENINGRAD, has been writing award-winning
short stories for many years. Now, in this
stunning collection, she presents 10 stories
that display the depth and magnitude of her
skill as a literary talent, half of which
have never before been published. New York
City neighbors let down their guard for a
naive puppeteer. A southern matriarch faces
her family at an intervention. A break-in
triggers insomniac introspection in a
desperate actor...
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A wonderfully spare and
elegant novel in which the 900-day siege of
Leningrad during World War II is echoed by
the destructive siege against the mind and
memory of an elderly Russian woman suffering
from Alzheimer's. The novel shifts between
two settings: 1941 Leningrad, when the city
was surrounded by German troops, and the
present-day, as Marina, who had been a
docent at Leningrad's...
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The Madonnas of Leningrad was selected on the best 2006
fiction by:
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| Salt Lake City Tribune |
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