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Intuition by Allegra Goodman

Intuition

by Allegra Goodman
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  • Feb 28, 2006, 352 pages
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  • Mar 2007, 448 pages
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Harvard-educated Allegra Goodman started her writing career with Total Immersion, a collection of short stories published in 1989; a second volume of short stories, The Family Markowitz, followed in 1996. Her first novel, Kaaterskill Falls, was published in 1998 (and was one of the first books to be recommended at BookBrowse). Paradise Park was published in 2001 and Intuition in 2006. She lives in Cambridge, Massachussets, the setting for Intuition.

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