Joyce Maynard

A memoir of what it was like to be a teenager in a tumultuous era, from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Best of Us.
 Joyce Maynard was eighteen years old when her 1972 New York Times Magazine cover story catapulted her to national prominence. Published one year later, Looking Back is her remarkable follow-up—part memoir, part cultural history, and part social critique. She wrote...

"Aber wir wollten mehr als seine kostbaren kleinen Mädchen sein. Wir wollten seine Helfer und Handlanger, seine Geheimwaffe sein. Wir lebten vielleicht nicht mehr mit ihm zusammen. Aber wir würden unersetzlich sein." "Wie fühlt es sich an, tot zu sein?" Rachel hält so lange wie möglich den Atem an, liegt neben ihrer elfjährigen Schwester auf dem Berghang und beobachtet, wie die Geier über ihnen Kreise ziehen - über dem Berghang, auf dem der...

The dog days of August...All summer long, thirteen-year-old Henry kept hoping that something different would happen, but it never did. Then, just as the Labour Day weekend gets under way, in the Pricemart where Henry's mother, Adele, on one of her rare forays out of the house and into the wider world has taken him to buy trousers for school, a bleeding man approaches Henry and asks for help. Frank is a man with a secret, and a man on the run. Adele...

"The New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and After Her returns with a poignant story about the true meaning--and the true price--of friendship. Drinking cost Helen her marriage and custody of her seven-year-old son, Ollie. Once an aspiring artphotographer, she now makes ends meet taking portraits of school children and working for a caterer. Recovering from her addiction, she spends lonely evenings checking out profiles on an online dating...

After a childhood filled with heartbreak, Irene, a talented artist, finds herself in a small Central American village where she checks into a beautiful but decaying lakefront hotel called La Llorona at the base of a volcano. The Bird Hotel tells the story of this young American who, after suffering tragedy, restores and runs La Llorona. Along the way we meet a rich assortment of characters who live in the village or come to stay at the hotel. With...

"That's the beauty of television. It's like an eye that's on you all the time ... Kind of like God, if you want to get heavy" Local weather reporter Suzanne Maretto craves nothing more than to transcend life at her suburban cable television news station and follow in the footsteps of her idol: Barbara Walters. When she concludes that her unglamorous husband is getting in the way of her dream of stardom, the solution seems obvious: Get rid of him....

The lives of four teenage girls, three with babies and the last pregnant, intersect with those of two childless college girls from out of town.

From the author of To Die For comes this poignant, stirring, and occasionally hilarious story of a woman's attempt to remake her life after a searing divorce. Maynard's novel captures love as one approaches middle age in contemporary America.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day comes At Home in the World, an honest and shocking memoir of falling in love—at age 18—with one of America's most reclusive literary figures, J. D. Salinger.

In the spring of 1972, Joyce Maynard, a freshman at Yale, published a cover story in The New York Times Magazine about life in the sixties. Among the many letters of praise, offers

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