Collects stories, essays, articles, and interviews by the late author of Women in Their Beds, in a treasury that includes her personal thoughts on the art of writing and her acceptance speech for the Commonwealth Club of California's Gold Medal for Literature. Reprint.

Product Description: Compiled by Gina Berriault’s daughter and by her long-time companion, Leonard Gardner, this collection opens with five stories, including, "The Figure Skater," the last story published before she died in 1999. Also here is the first section of the novel she left unfinished and her brilliant acceptance speech for the Commonwealth Club of California’s Gold Medal for Literature...read more

In this ecological fable, a parrot wanders a modern city lonely and homesick for a place he can barely recall. Original. (view table of contents)

Abandoned by her young husband before their first child is born, Vivian Carpentier tries to find meaning in her life while relying on her son for consolation

Product Description: Hal O. Costigan, candidate for Congress, is the kind of man people envy. He has a loving wife, a supportive family, a devoted mother. Friendly, intelligent, successful, he is a man on the rise - until he is caught in an affair with a high school girl and commits suicide...read more

Traces the changing relationships between Ilona Lewis and two fellow novelists, Claud McCormack and Martin Vandersen

A collection of thirty-five stories examining people's behavior and what motivates them (view table of contents)

Depicts the stories of Vivian's intense relationship with her son and Naomi's struggle to come to an understanding of her brother's suicide

Traces the changing relationships between Ilona Lewis and two fellow novelists, Claud McCormack and Martin Vandersen

Explores the experiences of characters, including a writer searching for a refugee novelist, a woman losing her sanity, a lonely middle-aged alcoholic, and a man coping with his mistress' death