Louis, Missouri, where she earned a bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature in 1973. She attended the University of Colorado Boulder and transferred to Washington University in St. She has also written several guides for Jewish people, including The New Jewish Wedding and Living a Jewish Life.ĭiamant spent her early childhood in Newark, New Jersey, and moved to Denver, Colorado, when she was 12 years old. She is best known for her novel, The Red Tent, a New York Times best seller. Currently-lives in Newton, MassachusettsĪnita Diamant is an American author of fiction and non-fiction books.Education-B.A., Washington University M.A., State University of New York, Binghamton.
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An intimate, impressionistic meditation on memory, grief, the brutalities of war, and the tensions of domestic life, revolutionary for its use of stream of consciousness and shifting points of view, and infused with a singular poetic essence, To the Lighthouse is both a landmark in modernist writing and one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century. They expect these summers will go on forever, but with the arrival of World War I, they are forced to reckon with change, loss, and time's unstoppable march, before making, years later, the long-awaited return to Skye and to its towering lighthouse. Ramsey and their eight children vacation on Scotland's idyllic Isle of Skye, surrounded by artist friends. 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