Absence Makes the Heart (90'S Series) - Softcover

In her short fictions Lynne Tillman employs satire, sexual comedy and even at times an eerie gothicism to explore themes around the formation of identity and experience in a media?clogged culture. Her work is always intelligent, always subtle, and often very funny, and the scalpel she uses for slicing into the American order of things has a wickedly sharp edge to it (Patrick McGrath)

Lynne Tillman has the stongest, smartest, most subtly distinct writer's voice of my generation. I admire her breadth of observation, her syntax, her wit (Gary Indiana)

Like an acupuncturist, Lynne Tillman knows the precise points in which to sink her delicate probes. One of the biggest problems in composing fiction is understanding what to leave out; no one is more severe, more elegant, more shocking in her reticences than Tillman (Edmund White)

Lynne Tillman was born in New York City where she now lives. She is the author of Absence Makes the Heart, Cast in Doubt, Haunted Houses and Motion Sickness (Serpent's Tail) and The Madame Realism Complex. She is a contributor to many journals and magazines including Bomb, Art in America, The Guardian and Voice Literary Supplement and is co-director and writer of the feature film Committed.