Elizabeth Rosner's Books
May.02.2006
In this sensual, intimate novel, prizewinning poet and bestselling author Elizabeth Rosner tells the engrossing and timely story of an artist and his model, and the moral and political implications of their relationship.
Born in the shadow of postwar Germany, Danzig is a once-prominent painter who now teaches at an art institute in San Francisco. But while Danzig shares...
Sep.04.2001
Elizabeth Rosner, a daughter of Holocaust survivors now living in Berkeley, explores the legacy of survivor guilt in her debut novel. Two adult siblings, Julian and Paula Perel, react to the sadness of their childhood home in seemingly different ways. Julian is a recluse who seldom leaves his apartment, fending off his anxieties with a strict adherence to his compulsive routines...
Sep.01.1998
Autobiographical companion to the novels by Elizabeth Rosner: THE SPEED OF LIGHT and BLUE NUDE
Rosner's multilayered composition is rendered in beautiful, spare prose and will resonate long after the last page. ”
—Publisher's Weekly
About Elizabeth
Originally from upstate New York, Elizabeth Rosner is an award-winning novelist, poet and essayist now living in Berkeley, California. Her first novel, The Speed of Light, was published by Ballantine Books in 2001. The novel's central theme addresses...
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Elizabeth’s Favorite Books
To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf; Underworld by Don DeLillo; The Sea by John Banville; Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje; Fugitive...