Heroic Measures

Written by Jill Ciment

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38678-6 (0-307-38678-3)

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Heroic Measures
A Novel
Written by Jill Ciment

Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: June 30, 2009
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-42522-6 (0-375-42522-5)

From the author of The Tattoo Artist (“Beautifully written”—Alice Sebold; “Boldly conceived”—The New York Times Book Review), a new novel—taut, moving, accomplished—set in a fraught, post-9/11 New York City on panic-alert.

A gasoline tanker truck is “stuck” in the Midtown Tunnel. New Yorkers are panicked . . . Is this the... Read more >

The Tattoo Artist
A Novel
Written by Jill Ciment

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7844-8 (1-4000-7844-X)

Winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for 2005


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... Read more >

The Tattoo Artist
A Novel
Written by Jill Ciment

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: August 23, 2005
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-42325-3 (0-375-42325-7)

Jill Ciment’s writing has been called “luminous . . . sad, affecting” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) and “rich in observation and insight” (Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times).

Now in her new novel, her third, Jill Ciment turns her eye to a painter’s world in the early years of the... Read more >

Half a Life

Written by Jill Ciment

Format: Trade Paperback, 220 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 18, 1997
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-48891-4 (0-385-48891-2)

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