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Also by Jennifer Allen:

The Long Chalkboard, October 2006
Hardcover
Fifth Quarter, September 2000
Trade Size

Also by Jules Feiffer:

Out of Line, May 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Kill My Mother, September 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Backing Into Forward, March 2010
Hardcover
The Long Chalkboard, October 2006
Hardcover
A Room with a Zoo, September 2005
Hardcover

THE LONG CHALKBOARD
By: Jennifer Allen, Jules Feiffer

and Other Stories

Pantheon
October 2006
On Sale: October 10, 2006
136 pages
ISBN: 0375424539
EAN: 9780375424533
Hardcover
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Fiction

Here are three delightful, bittersweet, especially-for-our-time adult stories of modern life as lived by men and women of a certain age: the baby boomer. Jenny Allen’s brilliant and witty narratives and Jules Feiffer’s playfully expressive drawings coax to the surface the hidden anxieties, familiar frustrations, and downright fury that we try to convince ourselves we don't really feel. The characters in these stories are reckoning with life’s little surprises. But what they don't expect sometimes turns out to be all right anyway: a little redemption bubbling up in the kitchen where “Judy’s Wonder Chili” is made. . . or hiding in the folds of an origami crane, waiting to be found by the children’s book writer in “Something Happened”. . . or revealing itself on the surface of the well-used chalkboard of the title tale.

In their humor, simplicity, and subtlety, these stories--brought to life perfectly through Feiffer’s drawings--speak to our deepest adult-yet-childlike selves. There’s not a grown-up among us who won’t be completely charmed.

Media Buzz

Studio 360 - November 4, 2006
Today - October 14, 2006
Morning Edition - October 10, 2006