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Interview with Peter ManseauJul 10, 2009
Jun 27, 2009
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Songs for the Butcher's Daughter is now available in Trade Paperback
Jun 09, 2009
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter will be released on June 09, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Jun 09, 2009
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter is now available in Trade Paperback
Jun 09, 2009
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Songs for the Butcher's Daughter has won an awardJan 16, 2009
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter will be released on June 09, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Dec 19, 2008
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter will be released on September 09, 2008 in Hardcover
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Songs for the Butcher's Daughter is now available in Hardcover
Sep 09, 2008
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter will be released on September 09, 2008 in eBook
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Songs for the Butcher's Daughter is now available in eBook
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Vows will be released on October 17, 2006 in Trade Paperback
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Vows is now available in Trade Paperback
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Vows will be released on October 11, 2005 in eBook
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Vows is now available in eBook
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Killing the Buddha will be released on September 28, 2004 in Trade Paperback
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Killing the Buddha is now available in Trade Paperback
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Killing the Buddha will be released on January 13, 2004 in eBook
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Table of Contents from Killing the BuddhaPrior to Dec 19, 2008
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Table of Contents from VowsPrior to Dec 19, 2008
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Chapter 1 from Songs for the Butcher's DaughterPrior to Dec 19, 2008
Peter Manseau's Books
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Songs for the Butcher's DaughterAn inventive, charismatic fiction debut from a stand-out literary talent that explores the lives of a Yiddish poet and his young translator.Read More
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Killing the BuddhaNow in paperback -- the book that caused a religious and critically acclaimed stir. Publishers Weekly called it "the most original and insightful...Read More
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Revealer, December 22, 2009
...of the 20th Century did for punk." And here's an even better book: erstwhile Revealer editor Peter Manseau's Songs for the Butcher's Daughter, also out in paperback this week! It's a beautiful novel about pogroms, poetry, and the death of print --...
New York Times, December 4, 2009
...Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. Peter Manseau is the author of the memoir "Vows," the novel "Songs for the Butcher's Daughter" and, most recently, the book "Rag and Bone: A...
New York Times, December 4, 2009
...Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. Peter Manseau is the author of the memoir "Vows," the novel "Songs for the Butcher's Daughter" and, most recently, the book "Rag and Bone: A...
New York Times, December 4, 2009
...Peter Manseau is the author of the memoir ?Vows,? the novel ?Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter? and, most recently, the book ?Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World?s...
Cleveland Jewish news, November 7, 2009
...Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter. By Peter Manseau. Simon & Schuster Inc. New York. 2009. 384 pp. $14. Anyone who has even a bisel (a bit of) knowledge of Yiddish and kvells over stories about the Old...
Hour, September 25, 2009
...September 10th, 2009 Sage storytelling MJ Stone by Peter Manseau (Simon and Schuster), 370 pp. Religious thinker and Yiddish language typesetter Peter Manseau looks poetically at Jewish Russia in Songs for the Butcher's Daughter As the son of...
San Francisco Chronicle, August 3, 2009
...to the institutions that house them. And like all high-demand items, relics tend to inspire counterfeit knock-offs. But Peter Manseau argues in his book 'Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World's Holy Dead' that what's really important about relics is...
Buffalo News, April 12, 2009
...book will really be your sort of thing. Because it cant be faulted in approach or in execution; Peter Manseau is too canny a reporter, and writer, for that. Subject matter is what this one boils down to, friends, and you will either love it or recoil...
The Independent, February 19, 2009
...Acts of literary ventriloquism don't come very much bolder than Peter Manseau's. What kind of author might you expect to steep himself in the folklore-studded fiction of Russian Jewish life, both in the pogrom-prone Pale and then, after migration, in...
Metro.co.uk, February 18, 2009
...Book Of The Week: Songs For The Butcher?s Daughter by Peter Manseau (Simon & Schuster, £14.99) Songs For The Butcher?s Daughter This debut novel has plenty in common with Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated. Both combine the...
New Yorker, February 18, 2009
...In January, the religion writer and memoirist Peter Manseau won the National Jewish Book Award for fiction for his début novel, ?Songs for the Butcher?s Daughter? (Free Press), the story of the life of an elderly Yiddish...
The Zen Leaf, December 28, 2009
...Mirrorscape by Mike Wilks (ARC) - high fantasy, not my thing Songs for the Butcher's Daughter by Peter Manseau (signed) - a bit pretentious, again not my thing Empress Orchid by Anchee Min - historical fiction again, couldn't get into it Another Faust by...
The Boston Bibliophile, December 13, 2009
...bring little handcrafts to do during our visit, but this time I just brought a book to read, Peter Manseau's Songs for the Butcher's Daughter , which I'm enjoying very much. Any time we didn't spend in the dining room or the living room we spent...
Beacon Broadside, August 6, 2009
...and a contributing editor to Harper's and Rolling Stone. ( Editor's note: Sharlet is also co-editor, with Peter Manseau, of Believer Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith .) With typical Christian duality, C Street has reportedly been...
The Revealer, May 29, 2009
...a treat to be able to announce that Songs for the Butcher's Daughter, by Revealer contributing editor Peter Manseau, is the winner of this year's National Jewish Book Award for fiction. You can hear Peter talk about his novel with NPR's Scott Simon here....
Reading Group Guides Blog, April 30, 2009
...by Ilana Stanger-Ross SO BRAVE, YOUNG, AND HANDSOME by Leif Enger SONGS FOR THE BUTCHER'S DAUGHTER by Peter Manseau STILL ALICE by Lisa Genova THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE by Andrew Sean Greer THE TEN-YEAR NAP by Meg Wolitzer TWO RIVERS by T. Greenwood...
The Book Publicity Blog, April 24, 2009
...Here are the NPR interviews for this week. Anyone who emails me the imprints of all the books listed (or houses if no imprint is available) will win the NPR Books Grid for the prior week that includes, in addition to the information below, interviewer,...
signs of life, April 4, 2009
...I sometimes forget the forest while admiring his grammatical trees. Today a publisher sent a handsome hardcover of Peter Manseau’s latest, Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World’s Holy Dead . I’m a couple chapters in and it looks promising. ...
A Progressive on the Prairie, April 1, 2009
...collection of stories to pique my interest. Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World’s Holy Dead , Peter Manseau — I don’t know why but I’m attracted by these sorts of books — Manseau travels the world in search of religious relics. A fairly...
