News and Reviews: Reviews
The Girl That He Marries (1979) – Village Voice
“has been compared to Fear of Flying” “Lerman’s slyly irreverent sensibility, one of the most idiosyncratic in contemporary prose. Her comic range is enormous.”
God’s Ear (1989) – Washington Times Review
“You have company coming, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and E.L. Doctorow”
God’s Ear (1989) – New York Times Review
“Here is a unique voice — wildly funny, achingily spiritual, profoundly Jewish”
NY Times Book Review of The Girl that He Marries
“Outstripping Philip Roth in his own milieu”
New York Times Book Review of Call Me Ishtar, 1973
“Rhoda Lerman is a find. Go out and find her.”
God’s Ear (1989) – Publisher’s Weekly Review
Like a Chagall painting translated to print, this passionate, hilarious, God-infused novel … (read online)
Animal Acts (1994) : Publisher’s Weekly Review
“Justly known as a writer’s writer, Lerman produces fascinating plots and lush, seductive prose in the service of transcendent questions. Her sixth novel (after God’s Ear ) is a tour de force” (read it online)
