“doris grumbach”

Extra Innings continues the intense, sometimes funny, sometimes tart, and sometimes very moving account of a closely examined life begun by Doris Grumbach in her widely praised day book Coming into the End Zone. That earlier book chronicles the author's seventy-first year, a time of both struggle ag... More

A New York Times Notable Book Faced with a rare opportunity to experiment with solitude, Doris Grumbach decided to live in her coastal Maine home without speaking to anyone for fifty days. The result is a beautiful meditation about what it means to write, to be alone, and to come to terms with morta... More

In this elegant meditation on age and memory, Grumbach's grace, humor, and insight alert us to the transience of each day and the constant play between past and present. " A] book that astonishes in its honesty. . . . What greater gift can a memoir bring than a self revealed in all its grubby partic... More

An eightieth-birthday party is cause for reflection on an extraordinary life of letters from Doris Grumbach, one of our most prized writers. " Grumbach's] prose shines with a serene grace."-The New York Times... More

"As if Willa Cather had decided to tell the whole truth....We are captured by her craft."--John Leonard, "New York Times" Long out of print, "Chamber Music" is Doris Grumbach's masterpiece. The Pushcart Press is honored to bring her novel back on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday. In her extrao... More

Cather's classic story of Alexandra Bergson, a courageous Swedish woman who must assume responsibility for the farm and family after her father's death in 19th-century Nebraska. A Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie starring Jessica Lange and David Strathem, to air on CBS on February 3, 1992.O Pi... More

Perhaps Willa Cather's most autobiographical work, The Song of the Lark charts the story of a young woman's awakening as an artist against the backdrop of the western landscape. Thea Kronborg, an aspiring singer, struggles to escape from the confines her small Colorado town to the world of possibili... More

The Presence of Absence follows Grumbach's journey to recover through prayer the sense of God's presence. Illuminated by her readings of accounts of epiphany and intensified by an extended period of extreme and chronic pain, Grumbach's quest to feel the presence of God is a moving and inspiring jour... More