Jill K Ciment

The author of the critically hailed Half a Life steps boldly into world-class literary territory with this tightly structured yet richly expansive literary thriller that will call to mind the work of Graham Greene and Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky.Thomas, a renowned American anthropologist, his m...

Jill Ciment weaves an unforgettable tale of survival, compassion, and courage, in this haunting recollection of a child surrounded by confusion and madness, and her struggle to find an identity.Half a Lifetraces Jill Ciment's family from Toronto to the California desert - -a landscape and culture so...

A giugno in uscita il film con i premi Oscar Diane Keaton e Morgan FreemanRuth e Alex vivono a Brooklyn, sono sposati da oltre quarant’anni e hanno deciso di cambiare casa. Si sono stancati di fare tutti i giorni cinque piani di scale e l’appartamento che all’epoca hanno pagato cinquemila dollari ad...

Jill Ciment’s books have been hailed as “stunning,” “powerful,” and “provocative.” Alice Sebold has called her works “beautifully written.” Now the author of Heroic Measures (“Smart and funny and completely surprising . . . I loved every page.” —Ann Patchett; “Brave, generous, nearly perfect.” —Los ...

The basis for the major motion picture5 Flights Upstarring Diane Keaton and Morgan Freeman.New York City is on high alert—a gasoline truck is “stuck” in the Midtown tunnel and the driver has fled. Through panic and gridlock, Alex and Ruth must transport their beloved old dachshund—whose back legs ar...

Gloria, a modern-day "snake-oil" saleswoman, travels from town to town with her teenaged daughter, Kim, but her life abruptly changes when Kim falls in love with Arthur, a gentle widower, thirty years her senior. 10,000 first printing.

In 1970, Sara Ehrenreich boards a small plane and returns to New York City with much fanfare; she will be featured in Life magazine. She has not left Ta'un'uu–the South Seas island upon which she and her husband, Philip, were marooned during a storm–in more than thirty years. Sara doesn’t know that ...