Roberta Silman

Events

Matt Tannenbaum Interviews Roberta Silman at The Bookstore 6/9/2023

March 10, 2023

The Bookstore
11 Housatonic Street, Lenox, MA 01240

Friday, June 9 at 5:00 PM

Selected Works

Novels

In this sweeping, multi-generational novel Roberta Silman explores the meaning of Alexander Herzen’s observation: “Art, and the summer lightning of individual happiness: these are the only real goods we have.”

Secrets and Shadows

...penetrating psychological novel that plumbs the depths of how an individual’s guilty secrets can undermine his inner life and his marriage.

Boundaries

Tender, affecting novel that explores the pain of loss, and, in its wake, the arduous task of building anew, Boundaries reveals Roberta Silman's rich, absorbing perception of the priorities, the limitless reaches, and the insistence, of love.

The Dream Dredger

A complex tale of joy, loss, and madness which ends in mysterious drowning.

Beginning the World Again: A Novel of Los Alamos

A novel about the women whose husbands went to Los Alamos to make the atomic bomb.

Short Stories

Blood Relations

Direct, compelling, painfully honest, these moving stories dig deep beneath the surface of family life.

Children’s Books

Somebody Else's Child

A children's book about adoption.

Astronomers

The book concentrates on Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo. It also deals briefly with contemporary physicists and astronomers.

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