Books written by Joyce Maynard
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Where Love Goes
In Cassie's fantasy version of Claire's life the part of the blind date is played by Harrison Ford or Mel Gibson, conversation scripted by Woody Allen. In real life, it is likely to revolve more on the unfair childsupport settlement the ...
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The Best of Us: A Memoir
The day before I turned sixty-one, an enormous box was delivered to our house from the Gibson guitar company. The shape made its contents unmistakable. The birthday box had contained a two-thousand-dollar acoustic guitar—an extravagant ...
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The Good Daughters: A Novel
They were born on the same day, in the same small New Hampshire hospital—but Ruth Plank and Dana Dickerson are different in nearly every way.
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To Die For: A Novel
“I've been reading about Kathy Lee Gifford,” she says. “The one that's on mornings with Regis Philbin? And how she married this old guy that was a sportscaster, and even though he was twenty years older than her, they decided to have a ...
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Baby Love: A Novel
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joyce Maynard including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
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Under the Influence: A Novel
As Helen increasingly falls under the Havillands’ influence—running errands for them, doing their random chores, questioning her relationship with Elliott—Ava and Swift hold out the most seductive gift: their influence and help for ...
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At Home in the World: A Memoir
The story she tells—of the girl she was and the woman she became—is at once devastating, inspiring, and triumphant.
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Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties
In this special anniversary edition, Maynard’s candid introductory reflections on the girl behind the girl who wrote Looking Back lend a new dimension to this iconic analysis of a generation.
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Count the Ways: A Novel
A story of holding on and learning to let go, Count the Ways is an achingly beautiful, poignant, and deeply compassionate novel of home, parenthood, love, and forgiveness.
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The Best of Us: A Memoir
'This haunting story, penned by a master wordsmith, is a reminder to savor every loved one and every day.
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At Home in the World: A Memoir
I still don't feel at home in my body. I am haunted by the memory of my mother's voice, as she was dying, when the brain tumor seemed to have an effect on her not unlike truth serum, and she asked me, “Did your breasts always look like ...
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A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: A Memoir of Coming Home to My Neurodivergent Mind
Blue square, red square, red circle, blue circle, red square, red square: CLICK . This feels like a race that I have lost from the start. My body is alive with potential movements but I try not to give in to them.
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Domestic Affairs: Enduring the Pleasures of Motherhood and Family Life
These collected writings represent nine years’ worth of stories about the greatest adventure of Maynard’s life, or, as she writes, “the difficult, exhausting, humbling, and endlessly gratifying business of raising children, of ...
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Labor Day: A Novel
From acclaimed author Joyce Maynard comes a beautiful, poignant tale of love, sex, adolescence, and devastating treachery as seen through the eyes of a young teenager—and the man he later becomes.
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To Die For
The book still stands as a razor-sharp satire of celebrity-fixated culture and the American obsession with TV--a novel that imagined the phenomenon of reality television before its creation, with alternately bone-chilling and hilarious ...
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Under the Influence: A Novel
As Helen increasingly falls under the Havillands’ influence—running errands, doing random chores, questioning her relationship with Elliott—Ava and Swift hold out the most seductive gift: their influence and help to regain custody of ...
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Where Love Goes
“There's a lot less blood if no children are involved,” says Nancy. ... This hill is where Nancy described to Claire how she made love on horseback that time with Billy, ... “Not exactly unconditional love,” Claire says.
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How the Light Gets In: A Novel
From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her beloved novel Count the Ways—a complex story of three generations of a family and its remarkable, resilient, indomitable matriarch, ...
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Labor Day LP: A Novel
In a manner evoking Ian McEwan's Atonement and Nick Hornby's About a Boy, acclaimed author Joyce Maynard weaves a beautiful, poignant tale of love, sex, adolescence, and devastating treachery as seen through the eyes of a young teenage ...
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Baby Love
Sandy, Tara, Wanda and Jill are all teenage mothers or mothers-to-be - innocent participants in the sexual revolution. Their lives intertwine with those of many other people in their small...