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Sandra Hochman

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.

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The Sandra Hochman Collection

The Shakespeare Conspiracy

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

When asked in 1976 by a reporter from People Magazine if her first two novels were autobiographical, Sandra Hochman replied, "My real life is much more fabulous than the books. One day I plan to write about it—men, Paris and women's liberation. It will probably be called Unreal Life."

Hochman first met Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Robert Lowell in 1961 at the Russian Tea Room in New York. She was to interview him for Encounter magazine. Hochman was twenty-five and had recently returned from Paris where she had lived with her husband for four years. They were now separated. Lowell was forty-three with plans to leave his wife. Hochman remembers it as the day that changed her life. The two poets fell in love instantly, and before the night was over, they had vowed to stay together forever. In Hochman's first literary work in almost forty years, she writes in startling detail about the torrid and ultimately doomed affair that would follow.

Loving Robert Lowell

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.

Walking Papers

- Activist, socialite, and artist: Hochman has a wide network of well-known and culturally-important artists, writers, journalist, producers, and many more. She has collaborated with Gloria Steinem on The Year of the Woman (re-released recently by Huffington Films), a film that showcases one of the most pivotal times for feminism in the 1970s. Amongst her friends were Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Andy Warhol, and Jack Kerouac. Her first husband was world-famous violinist Ivry Gitlis and she once had a torrid love affair with poet Robert Lowell. Her network extends to some of pop culture's greatest names. - Beloved title in Hochman collection. - Part of a beloved collection: Playing Tahoe is a part of Sandra Hochman Collection, which will re-release her critically-acclaimed titles. - Award-winning author: Sandra Hochman has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition Award, and is also the recipient of 1st Metropolitan Museum Award of Merit.

Playing Tahoe

- Activist, socialite, and artist: Hochman has a wide network of well-known and culturally-important artists, writers, journalist, producers, and many more. She has collaborated with Gloria Steinem on The Year of the Woman (re-released recently by Huffington Films), a film that showcases one of the most pivotal times for feminism in the 1970s. Amongst her friends were Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Andy Warhol, and Jack Kerouac. Her first husband was world-famous violinist Ivry Gitlis and she once had a torrid love affair with poet Robert Lowell. Her network extends to some of pop culture's greatest names. - Beloved title in Hochman collection. 

- Classic academic title: Streams was a staple in libraries and school nation-wide as the definitive text on teaching poetry reading and writing.

- Award-winning author: Sandra Hochman has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition Award, and is also the recipient of 1st Metropolitan Museum Award of Merit.

Streams: Life Secrets for Writing Poems and Songs

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.

The Sandra Hochman Collection - The book series

The Sandra Hochman Collection - The book series

The Sandra Hochman Collection books in order

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