Avedon: Something Personal
9 best books like Avedon: Something Personal (Norma Stevens): The Reckless Oath We Made, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death, The Need, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me, The Flamethrowers, Autobiography, The Sisters: Babe Mortimer Paley, Betsy Roosevelt Whitney, Minnie Astor Fosburgh: The Lives and Times of the Fabulous Cushing Sisters, All the Bad Apples, Double Fault
The Reckless Oath We Made
| Author | Bryn Greenwood |
| ISBN | 0525541845 |
Zee is nobody's fairy tale princess. Almost six-foot, with a redhead's temper and a shattered hip, she has a long list of worries: never-ending bills, her beautiful, gullible sister, her five-year-old nephew, her housebound mother, and her drug-dealing boss.
Zee may not be a princess, but...
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.
Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut’s body if it were pushed out of a space...
| Author | Helen Phillips |
| ISBN | 1982113162 |
When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries to convince herself it’s the sleep deprivation. She’s been hearing things these days. Startling at loud noises. Imagining the worst-case scenario. It’s what mothers do, she knows.
But...
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me
| Author | Adrienne Brodeur |
| ISBN | 1328519031 |
A daughter’s tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity.
On a hot July night on Cape Cod when Adrienne was fourteen, her mother, Malabar, woke her at midnight with five simple words that would set the course of both of their...
| Author | Rachel Kushner |
| ISBN | 1439142009 |
The year is 1975 and Reno—so-called because of the place of her birth—has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity in the art world—artists have colonized a deserted and industrial SoHo, are staging...
| Author | Andrew Wyeth |
| ISBN | 0821225693 |
Why did I let this book rest on the shelf for several years before actually reading it? It's not an autobiography in the traditional sense, but I finished it feeling as if I'd actually met Wyeth. He describes his inspiration, thoughts, and techniques, as well as setting and season of a good many of his paintings....
The Sisters: Babe Mortimer Paley, Betsy Roosevelt Whitney, Minnie Astor Fosburgh: The Lives and Times of the Fabulous Cushing Sisters
| Author | David Grafton |
| ISBN | 0394584163 |
I have read in a few reviews that this was a gossipy book, but I didn't find it so. I learned recently that the author died just a year after the book was published, and that his friends found his origins a mystery: who was the real David Grafton? In many ways it helped me to read this book as his story as well,...
The day after the funeral all our mourning clothes hung out on the line like sleeping bats. 'This will be really embarrassing,' I kept saying to my family, 'when she shows up at the door in a week or two.'
When Deena's wild and mysterious sister Mandy disappears - presumed dead - her family are heartbroken....
| Author | Lionel Shriver |
| ISBN | 1852429119 |
An ardent middle-ranked professional tennis player, Willy Novinsky meets her match in Eric Oberdorf, the handsome rogue she drubs in a pick-up game in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Eric is charmingly gracious in defeat, and his casual confidence takes her in. Low-ranked but untested, Eric, too, aims...
