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LA MÍTICA NOVELA DE UN ICONO DEL FEMINISMO ESTADOUNIDENSE. Para Diana Balooka —madre, escritora, bailarina de claqué—, el matrimonio siempre ha sido una continuación del divorcio. Ahora, con cuatro hijos, un terrier zulú como mascota y una nueva relación a la que poner fin, repasa su frenético diario sentimental: desde la granja de su abuelo en Albany, deteniéndose en París o Ciudad Juárez, hasta la desquiciada y desquiciante Nueva York de finales de los años sesenta. Como escribió Philip Roth, gran admirador de esta ya mítica novela, «Nota de despedida es una suerte de Herzog concentrado y erotizado, la cara femenina de la locura del divorcio. A medida que cada uno de los capítulos gira y gira sobre su propio cómico y excéntrico eje, la realidad del desastre marital va desplegándose convincentemente gracias al angustiado entusiasmo de la narradora. Y tan afilado es el retrato del desconcierto sexual, tan concentradas las escenas de irónica indignación y perpleja emotividad, que uno termina pensando en la protagonista como en una fugitiva de la En la Colonia Penitenciaria de Kafka, con la sentencia de divorcio marcada en la piel». «La obra de Sandra Hochman perdurará mientras la gente siga leyendo en nuestro idioma». ROBERT LOWELL «Sus palmadas de alegría, en las que se insinúa siempre la sombra de algún fantasma, otorgan a cuanto escribe una sensual intensidad». NORMAN MAILER «Exceptuando a Sylvia Plath, no conozco a ninguna otra escritora capaz de reflejar lo que es ser mujer con una prosa tan bella».ANNE SEXTON «Nota de despedida es una novela terriblemente divertida». JOHN CHEEVER «Una obra de primera categoría que destaca por su autenticidad e ingenio». PHILIP ROTH

For fifteen years Anne Hathaway kept a diary. It was no ordinary diary, as Anne, an excellent writer of poems and songs in her own right, was also the wife of the world's most famous poet and playwright, William Shakespeare. In its pages she reveals the man she knew and loved and their shared life full of triumph and tragedy. Pulitzer-prize nominated poet Sandra Hochman's imagining of Mrs. Shakespeare is both a thoughtful take on one of the greatest mysteries in Western literature and the story of two people who would change the English language forever.

Turner Publishing is proud to present a new edition of Sandra Hochman's, Endangered Species First published by Putnam in 1977, Hochman's third novel is the story of Kathy Kahn's tireless search for love and purpose through business ventures, poetry, activism, and doomed love affairs. Hochman's experimental and frenetic novel mirrors the soul's search for comedy in tragedy and meaning in the meaningless.

Turner Publishing proudly presents the first of three new literary works by Sandra Hochman, author of Walking Papers.

Turner Publishing is proud to present a new edition of Sandra Hochman's first novel, Walking Papers First published by Viking Press in 1971, Hochman's widely-praised novel is about a messy divorce told with a poet's verve. From the Viking Press edition: Diana Balooka: “Out of my womanhood is my madness woven.'And, for Diana, out of marriage has divorce arisen. With four children, a pet Zulu-Terrier (a rare breed), and a wheeler-dealer love affair to boot. Diana Balooka:'We are babies. Watched by our elders. Like the dangerously Insane and deaf we invent our own language We gesture in our own mudras. We understand each other.'Breaking into herself, Diana is a sanity robber armed with cupfuls of tears and lots of laughs. How can pain be amusing? Sandra Hochman's novel is how. This is a madcap erotic journal of the very separate parts of one woman's life. It is played out with a great personal intensity, a kind of tape-recorded reality that stuns and amazes upon the sound of her own voice; fast forward to Juarez. Mexico; reverse to her flamboyant grandfather's used stageprop farm, or to life In Paris with a hypnotist; hold, for a moment of tormented reflection, on Jason, the nonhusband; then slowly spin forward again, frantic and funny, turn, turn, to everything there is a season.... Should the tape chance to break. she bends and splices it together, twists it and sets it to reel on a little further. Miss Hochman pulls and tugs her heroine—a mother, tapdancer. writer, and partner in an affair that stretches from an ocean beach to real estate on Seventy- second Street—as she is caught to a bizarre parade of men on the hunt in New York City. Her invention, sensuality, and poetic gifts lend to Walking Papers a totally original novelist's voice belonging, in Diana's words, to'a woman obsessed with essentials.'A women to be read.

Turner Publishing is proud to present another heartfelt memoir from the early life of the novelist, poet, and activist, Sandra Hochman. Following Hochman's Loving Robert Lowell that revealed the details of her affair with one of America's greatest poets, Remembering Paris 1958-1960, A Memoir chronicles Sandra's years before meeting Lowell, her first teenaged love and subsequent tumultuous marriage to an internationally famous concert violinist at the age of 21, her life as an American expatriate, and finding her creative voice in the City of Lights.

Turner Publishing is proud to present a new edition of Sandra Hochman's, Playing Tahoe First published by Wyndham Books in 1981, Hochman's fifth novel is an unsparing and no-holds-barred look at the music business through the eyes of a woman who bets it all. From the Wyndham edition: At age forty she was Americas greatest pop lyricist. From rock and roll through new wave, Sylvia Lundholm and her composer-partner Nick Dimani made millions while creating the platinum records in which millions found the sound of their own longing and joy. Set against the background of the rock and roll music business in New York City and the casinos and hotels and ski lifts of Lake Tahoe, Playing Tahoe captures that specific moment in Sylvia Lundholm's life when she recognized that love was the one song she could not write, and that only by breaking with the superhype celebrity of her career might she learn in the hands of her new lover. Revson Cranwell was the male courtesan every woman wanted. He was cold, well-bred, indifferent. But he made her hot. She had everything else that money could buy. Now she wanted him. He was her song, her lover, her best friend. She would kill for him. But he would make that unnecessary. In Tahoe, at Harrah's, where Dimani is performing, Sylvia and Dimani meet to create a last great album that will cover the world with his music. But as the tendrils of Dimani's music threaten to clutch Sylvia back into the world she is so desperate to leave, the clash between her passion for Revson and Dimani's desperation for Sylvia's poetry erupts into cold-blooded violence. Playing Tahoe will give you insight into the world of rock and roll and big casinos. But above all it will teach you the games of a woman who, gambling for love, desperately wants to hold on to the richness of her own life. Sandra Hochman has created a novel that explores the guts of a woman in the midst of a change, who will overturn the American Dream to follow a stranger, Revson, who is a new antihero of modern fiction.

Turner Publishing is proud to present a new edition of Sandra Hochman's, Happiness Is Too Much Trouble First published by Putnam in 1976, Hochman's follow-up to Walking Papers is the story of a unique woman told by a unique voice in American literature. From the Putman edition: Who took over where Louis B. Mayer left off? A new kind of woman: Lulu. Lulu Cartwright is a troublemaker on a pilgrimage to save souls. One morning she wakes up and finds that she has been named head of the world's largest film studio. This powerful job is hers by a freak of computerized technology and ironic justice. As Lulu describes herself, she is the “unbroken token.” She is also wise, frightened, funny, and sexually vulnerable. Throughout the novel we follow Lulu from her moment of triumph back into her thoughts and memories. We meet her old lovers, husbands; we meet her parents, her childhood friends, her child; but most important of all, we meet Dumbo—a hustler and a stud. We watch Dumbo change from an out-of-work extra into Lulus “wife” and finally into an entrepreneur in the foot business. Through Lulu s eyes we put together the puzzle of her love for Dumbo. Dumbo is alive with contradictions, devotions, and a desire to heal soles. Dumbo, as perceived by Lulu, is the new hero, a stud-savior. We also enter, with Lulu, through the computerized portals of the new Hollywood. We encounter the movieland of executives who never see films, the Hollywood of consultants, accountants, and frightened corporation men who have to deliver image and product in order to satisfy stockholders. On the way to the top, Lulu Cartwright finds herself in bed with Machiavellis, losers, and vibrators. Lulu is the kind of woman who manages to change the system, not merely be victimized by it. Happiness Is Too Much Trouble is the story, past and present, of a woman who is finally, and against all odds, a winner. Lulu, by an accident of history, is forced to give up happiness and settle instead for fame, fortune, power. What makes her different is that she loves every minute of it. And so will you.

Turner Publishing is proud to present a new edition of Sandra Hochman's, Jogging First published by Putnam in 1979, Hochman's fourth novel is the story of a man always one step ahead of love. From the Ballantine Books mass-market edition: Jerry Hess is a smooth millionaire in the priceless world of art. His life is fast and classy dinners on Monday, screenings on Wednesday, drinks on Friday. And sex—well, his wife Lillian, a brilliant lawyer, promises someday. So Jerry runs away. Step by step he crosses the landscape of his sexual fantasies. From the firm, youthful desires of Mary to the sophisticated, sinful wishes of Ursule to the liberating pleasures of Paris, the city where dreams come true, Jerry must choose between a new future with a new woman or the life he left behind.