Eidus, Janice

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Faithful Rebecca
Janice Eidus
Manufacturer: Fiction Collective 2
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ASIN: 0932511074

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In this wildly erotic, magical and comic novel of fast-paced suspense, Rebecca, a modern day Scarlett O'Hara from New York City, embarks on an impassioned search for her infant daughter, Lily, and Lily's kidnapper. Her quest leads to a mountaintop community of women emulating mythical Amazon warriors where Rebecca is reunited with both Lily, being raised as an Amazon, and Sagana, formerly Rebecca's devoted best friend and now the passionate, fierce, and beautiful Amazon queen. She also meets the equally memorable Howard Geller, a wisecracking, romantic, runaway teenager living on the fringe of the community. This many-leveled contemporary fable incorporates such motifs as personal ads and female bodybuilding, while asking difficult questions about women's roles as friends, lovers, mothers, and daughters.

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The Celibacy Club: Stories
Janice Eidus
Manufacturer: City Lights Books
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ASIN: 0872863220

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In "Gypsy Lore," one of 19 stories in Janice Eidus's new collection, The Celibacy Club, 15-year-old Anna asks a fortune teller about sex. "He comes in, he goes out. He comes in, he goes out. That's all," the gypsy replies. The gypsy's evident ennui about sex might apply just as easily to this collection itself, in which a lot happens but nothing much matters. In the title story, Nancy joins a celibacy club where everyone talks about why they're not having sex. Then she has sex with one of the club members, quits the club and buys a condo in the Bronx. In "Making Love, Making Movies" screenwriter Jeff inexplicably starts cheating on his wife of ten years, an actress obsessed with Sigourney Weaver. During each affair he casts himself as a different Hollywood actor, while each encounter becomes a scenario for yet another trite film cliché in his hackneyed mind.

Ms. Eidus's tales are often amusing, but she tends to substitute pop culture references for character development, and high concept ideas, i.e., a Barbie doll goes to group therapy, for theme. Still, readers who enjoy this type of ultra-hip urban story-telling may well find The Celibacy Club entertaining reading.

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This vibrant collection of nineteen short stories by the two-time winner of the prestigious O. Henry Prize is by turns erotic, wildly funny, bawdy, and poignant. Eidus explores our contemporary obsessions: sex-both safe and not-so-safe; Prozac, the '90s drug of choice; Nautilus machine mania; the sinister attraction of vampires; film star James Dean; and rock 'n' roll icons Axl Rose and Elvis-all with dazzling range.

Janice Eidus' quirky characters seek transcendence in exotic ways, and they sometimes even find it. These unpredictable stories demonstrate that Janice Eidus continues to be ". . . one of the freshest and most idiosyncratic voices from the fiction frontier (San Francisco Chronicle)."

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Vito Loves Geraldine
Janice Eidus
Manufacturer: City Lights Publishers
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Urban Bliss

ASIN: 087286247X

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In these eighteen stories Janice Eidus, with comic and tender irony, casts a sharp eye upon contemporary myths of romance, rebellion, and self-discovery.

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The War of the Rosens
Janice Eidus
Manufacturer: Behler Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1933016388

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The War of the Rosens is as fierce, unflinching and tender as its feisty ten year-old heroine, Emma Rosen. Growing up in the mid-60's in the Bronx, Emma carries the weight of the world and the fate of her volatile, unpredictable family on her small shoulders. Emma, a budding poet seeks answers to questions about the nature of good and evil while struggling with an alternately brutal and loving father, a meek and "lost" mother, and a spiteful older sister.

While the Rosens ricochet off life's hard knocks, 13-year-old May, Emma's sister, keeps her physical symptoms a secret because of her fear of doctors. When tragedy strikes the family, it is Emma, with a tenacious spirit and an indomitable imagination who, through the power of love and the force of the written word, instigates her family's salvation.

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Babette Bliss, the decidedly modern heroine of this comical novel, suffers from an unsettling problem: ambivalence. She has taken leave from her job with an avant-garde New York theater to face her dilemmas concerning her marriage, career, and soul. Should she forgive her philandering husband, George Harrison, an Iowa-raised corporate lawyer with an uncanny resemblance to Babette's favorite Beatle? Is it time, in fact, for her and George to have a baby? Or should she have an affair? She is thrown into even deeper confusion when Shara-Rose, her leather-clad therapist, decides to give up her practice and become a rock star.

No matter where Babette looks, abandonment is everywhere. So can she really desert her theater, at a time when the company is faced with eviction? To sort things out, she decides to live by herself again-only to team up with an unexpected roommate.

Filled with subtle irony and insight, Urban Bliss is a humorous and touching novel that takes up old-age problems and sheds a contemporary light on them.
Janice Eidus, winner of two O. Henry Prizes, is the author of a novel, Faithful Rebecca, and the short story collections Vito Loves Geraldine and The Celibacy Club. She lives in New York City.

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Faithful Rebecca
Janice Eidus
Manufacturer: Serpents Tail
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Binding: Paperback

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Viot Loves Geraldine
Janice Eidus
Manufacturer: Serpent's Tail
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JV3PFW

It's Only Rock and Roll: An Anthology of Rock and Roll Short Stories

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It's Only Rock and Roll: An Anthology of Rock and Roll Short Stories

Manufacturer: David R. Godine Publisher
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ASIN: 1567920896

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The Celibacy Club - Stories
Janice Eidus
Manufacturer: City Lights
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JZHRR0

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