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Kate Christensen is also the author of the novels In the Drink, Jeremy Thrane, and The Epicure's Lament. Her essays and articles have appeared in various publications including Salon, Mademoiselle, The Hartford Courant, Elle, and the best-selling anthology The Bitch in the House. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband.
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The Epicure's Lament
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 25, 2005
Price: $13.95
Hugo Whittier—failed poet and former kept man—is a wily misanthrope with a taste for whiskey, women, and his own cooking. Afflicted with a rare disease that will be fatal unless he quits smoking, Hugo retreats to his once aristocratic family’s dilapidated mansion, determined to smoke himself to death without forfeiting any... Read more >
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 25, 2005
Price: $13.95
Hugo Whittier—failed poet and former kept man—is a wily misanthrope with a taste for whiskey, women, and his own cooking. Afflicted with a rare disease that will be fatal unless he quits smoking, Hugo retreats to his once aristocratic family’s dilapidated mansion, determined to smoke himself to death without forfeiting any... Read more >
The Epicure's Lament
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: eBook
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 29, 2009
Price: $13.95
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Written by Kate Christensen
Format: eBook
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 29, 2009
Price: $13.95
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The Great Man
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $14.95
Winner of 2007 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction
From the acclaimed author of The Epicure’s Lament, a novel of literary rivalry in which two competing biographers collide in their quest for the truth about a great artist.
Oscar Feldman, the “Great Man,” was a New York city painter of the heroic generation of the... Read more >
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $14.95
Winner of 2007 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction
From the acclaimed author of The Epicure’s Lament, a novel of literary rivalry in which two competing biographers collide in their quest for the truth about a great artist.
Oscar Feldman, the “Great Man,” was a New York city painter of the heroic generation of the... Read more >
The Great Man
A Novel
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $23.95
From the acclaimed author of The Epicure's Lament, a novel of literary rivalry in which two competing biographers collide in their quest for the truth about a great artist.
Oscar Feldman, the "Great Man," was a New York city painter of the heroic generation of the forties and fifties. But instead of... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $23.95
From the acclaimed author of The Epicure's Lament, a novel of literary rivalry in which two competing biographers collide in their quest for the truth about a great artist.
Oscar Feldman, the "Great Man," was a New York city painter of the heroic generation of the forties and fifties. But instead of... Read more >
The Great Man
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: eBook, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $14.95
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Written by Kate Christensen
Format: eBook, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $14.95
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In the Drink
A Novel
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 1, 2000
Price: $12.00
In this compassionate, wise, and comical debut, Kate Christensen gives an engaging and authentic voice to a new generation of single urban women.
Claudia Steiner never intended for her life to become such a disaster. At the age of twenty-nine she finds herself serving as secretary to an insane, aging socialite who... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 1, 2000
Price: $12.00
In this compassionate, wise, and comical debut, Kate Christensen gives an engaging and authentic voice to a new generation of single urban women.
Claudia Steiner never intended for her life to become such a disaster. At the age of twenty-nine she finds herself serving as secretary to an insane, aging socialite who... Read more >
Jeremy Thrane
A Novel
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 11, 2002
Price: $13.00
Jeremy Thrane seems to have everything. As the long-time boyfriend of the handsome (but deeply closeted) movie star Ted Masterson, he lives rent-free in a beautiful apartment on the top floor of Ted’s Manhattan brownstone and has an easy job that gives him plenty of time to read books and write... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 11, 2002
Price: $13.00
Jeremy Thrane seems to have everything. As the long-time boyfriend of the handsome (but deeply closeted) movie star Ted Masterson, he lives rent-free in a beautiful apartment on the top floor of Ted’s Manhattan brownstone and has an easy job that gives him plenty of time to read books and write... Read more >
Trouble
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $15.00
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Written by Kate Christensen
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $15.00
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Trouble
A Novel
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $26.00
A vibrant story of female friendship and midlife sexual awakening from the acclaimed author of The Great Man
Josie is a Manhattan psychotherapist living a comfortable life with her husband and daughter—until, while suddenly flirting with a man at a party, she is struck with the sudden realization that she must leave... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $26.00
A vibrant story of female friendship and midlife sexual awakening from the acclaimed author of The Great Man
Josie is a Manhattan psychotherapist living a comfortable life with her husband and daughter—until, while suddenly flirting with a man at a party, she is struck with the sudden realization that she must leave... Read more >
Trouble
A Novel
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: eBook, 320 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $26.00
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A Novel
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: eBook, 320 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $26.00
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