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Books by Kate Braverman






A Good Day for Seppuku
Stories
by Kate Braverman
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2018 by City Lights Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-87286-721-5, ISBN: 0-87286-721-8

" Haunting new stories about girls on the brink of adulthood, women on the verge of breakdowns, and families undone by past deceptions. "Kate Braverman is a writer of astonishing versatility and lyricism. Her stories are brilliantly rendered, painfully intimate portraits of individuals who come alive on the page as if illuminated by strobe lighting. With remarkable precision she tracks the restless motions of a mind searching for its ref ..."






Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles
An Accidental Memoir
by Kate Braverman
Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 2006 by Graywolf Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-438-1, ISBN: 1-55597-438-4

"Kate Braverman grew up in Los Angeles in the late 1950s at the time when glitz was just beginning to be manufactured. Her Los Angeles was made up of stucco tenements, welfare, and the marginalized. It wasn't a destination city, it was the end of the line. Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles chronicles the trajectory of Braverman's Left Coast generation with a voice of singular power. She was an antiwar activist in Berkeley, a ..."






Palm Latitudes
A Novel
by Kate Braverman
Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2003 by Seven Stories Press
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-1-58322-572-1, ISBN: 1-58322-572-2

"Written nearly a decade after Lithium for Medea, Palm Latitudes, Kate Braverman's second novel and arguably her chef d’oeuvre, explores the intertwined lives of three women who await absolution and revelation in the bougainvillea- and violence-filled "barrio" of Los Angeles. Frances Ramos is a voluptuous prostitute who flaunts her wealth and is held in high esteem by the local street gangs. Gloria Hernandez is a dutiful young wife and m ..."






The Incantation of Frida K.(1st Edition)
by Kate Braverman
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2002 by Seven Stories Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-58322-469-4, ISBN: 1-58322-469-6

""I was born in rain and I will die in rain," begins Kate Braverman’s The Incantation of Frida K., an imagined life journey of Frida Kahlo. The book opens and closes inside the mind of Frida K., at 46, on her deathbed, taking us through a kaleidoscope of memories and hallucinations where we shiver for two hundred pages on the threshold of life and death, dream and reality, truth and myth. Defiant and uncompromising, Frida bears the wound ..."






Small Craft Warnings(1st Edition)
Stories (Western Literature Series)
by Kate Braverman
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Nevada Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-87417-321-5, ISBN: 0-87417-321-3

""We are all homeless women, crash victims, chance survivors," Kate Braverman announces in her lush, atmospheric collection of short fiction, Small Craft Warnings. Or, put another way, "Sometimes women must go traveling." The disassociated protagonists of these stories are travelers of a psychic if not a physical sort, homeless women by nature if not in fact. Living through the long, bright California of the soul, they find themselves se ..."






The Incantation of Frida K.
by Kate Braverman
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2003 by Seven Stories Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-58322-571-4, ISBN: 1-58322-571-4

""I was born in rain and I will die in rain," begins Kate Braverman’s The Incantation of Frida K., an imagined life journey of Frida Kahlo. The book opens and closes inside the mind of Frida K., at 46, on her deathbed, taking us through a kaleidoscope of memories and hallucinations where we shiver for two hundred pages on the threshold of life and death, dream and reality, truth and myth. Defiant and uncompromising, Frida bears the wound ..."






El Niño
by Mercedes . Lambert, Kate Braverman
Paperback, 218 Pages, Published 2016 by Stark House Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-944520-10-6, ISBN: 1-944520-10-4

"“El Niño burns with a radiance and intensity. It speaks in tongues as all visionary art does. …the novel refuses conventional borders and strategies. It doesn’t compromise.” –Kate Braverman, Los Angeles Times. Originally published by Viking under the author’s real name, Douglas Anne Munson, in 1990."






Squandering the Blue(1st Edition)
by Kate Braverman
Hardcover, 241 Pages, Published 1990 by Fawcett Columbine
ISBN-13: 978-0-449-90551-7, ISBN: 0-449-90551-9

"Single mothers, insolent daughters, blood sisters, and desperate friends people the tales in this twelve-story cycle, as they live out urban fairy tales and nightmares in the atmospheric landscape of Los Angeles"






Palm Latitudes
by Kate Braverman
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1989 by Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-012640-2, ISBN: 0-14-012640-6

"Kate Braverman ... Inc. 1988 Published in Penguin Books 1989 13S79 10 8642 Copyright © Kate Braverman, 1988 All rights reserved This book is a work ... LIBRARY OF CONGRFSS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA Braverman, Kate."






LITHIUM FOR MEDIA(1st Edition)
A NOVEL [CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION]
by Kate Braverman
Paperback, 251 Pages, Published 1989 by Penguin Usa (P)
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-012641-9, ISBN: 0-14-012641-4

"To tell her erotic, moving story, Ms. Braverman has chosen a style which makes one wish to resurrect freshness into that overused adjective 'brilliant.' Ms. Braverman is a powerful writer." — John Rechy "This first novel is a contemporary horror ..."






Onthebus-Winter 93/Spring 94-Issue 13
(Onthebus- A New Literary Magazine, Issue 13)
by Charles Bukowski, James Dickey, Tom Wolfe, Alice Notley, Donald Hall, Michael Andrews, Kate Braverman, Peter Wild, Jack Grapes, Unknown 120
Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 1994 by Bombshelter Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-941017-36-7, ISBN: 0-941017-36-2

"Interviews with Charles Bukowski & Tom Wolfe. Charles Bukowski Album:Journals & Poems. Fiction and Poetry by many others."






Breaking up Is Hard to Do
Stories by Women
by Dorianne Laux, Kate Braverman, Cris Mazza, Lesleá Newman, Breaverman Alta, Amber C. Sumrall
Hardcover, 413 Pages, Published 1994 by Crossing Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-89594-655-3, ISBN: 0-89594-655-6

"Sixty-three stories in prose and verse by women on the subject of failed romances. They chronicle partings at various stages of a relationship and describe the accompanying frame of mind: anger, relief, self-doubt."






Breaking up Is Hard to Do
Stories by Women
by Amber Coverdale Sumrall, Dorianne Laux, Cris Mazza, Kate Braverman, Lesléa Newman
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 1994 by Crossing Press,U.S.
ISBN-13: 978-0-89594-654-6, ISBN: 0-89594-654-8






Wonders of the West(1st Edition)
by Kate Braverman
Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 1993 by Fawcett
ISBN-13: 978-0-449-90656-9, ISBN: 0-449-90656-6

"Newly arrived at her brother's home in 1960s L.A., teenager Jordan Lerner struggles to deal with her brother's terminal illness, her mother's dalliances with a string of men, and a school where she is considered an outcast."






Lithium for Medea(1st Edition)
by Kate Braverman
Paperback, Published 1981 by Pinnacle Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-523-41185-9, ISBN: 0-523-41185-5

"Book by Braverman, Kate"






Lullaby for Sinners(1st Edition)
by Kate Braverman
Paperback, 110 Pages, Published 1981 by Pinnacle Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-523-41539-0, ISBN: 0-523-41539-7






Lullaby for Sinners(1st Edition)
Poems
by Kate Braverman
88 Pages, Published 1980 by Harper & Row
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-010439-9, ISBN: 0-06-010439-2






Dropping in; putting it all back together.
by Kate Braverman, Katherine. Braverman
Hardcover, 193 Pages, Published 1972 by Nash Pub
ISBN-13: 978-0-8402-1294-8, ISBN: 0-8402-1294-1






Everyday Stem Science--Energy
(Hardcover)
by Dr Shini Somara, Luna Valentine
Hardcover, Published 2022 by Kingfisher
ISBN-13: 978-0-7534-7779-3, ISBN: 0-7534-7779-3






A Good Day for Seppuku
Stories
by Kate Braverman
192 Pages, Published 2018 by City Lights Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-87286-722-2, ISBN: 0-87286-722-6

"That's camouflage. Mrs. Stein actually spends summers in the Sisyphean search for her prostitute daughter in Los Angeles. These are some of the tales told in Kate Braverman's audacious new story collection."



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