Victoria Zackheim's Reviews
Reviews of Victoria’s Work
May.01.2009
Published by O (Oprah) Magazine
Looking for a good time? Packed with trivia, deeply personal stories, and wacky accounts of scientific inquiry, these 10 books about sex are smart, engaging, occasionally...
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Jan.01.2008
Published by Body + Soul Magazine
Some anthologies suffer from too much of the same thing. But in For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance (Seal Press), editor Victoria...
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Feb.01.2008
Published by StoryCircleBookReviews.org
For Keeps is not an easy book to read. It is not about pretty women with perfect bodies who find easy acceptance in a beauty-obsessed culture. No. It is an impolite, impertinent,...
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Dec.01.2007
Published by Midwest Book Review
Victoria Zackheim's The Bone Weaver is a superbly written generational story, told from great-grandmother to grandmother to mother, about their lives and problems in struggling...
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Dec.07.2007
Published by San Francisco Chronicle
The human body is a tough machine. Women's bodies in Victoria Zackheim's straight-up, affable anthology, "For Keeps," are put to the test, experiencing bulimia, breast...
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Jul.01.2007
Published by Globe and Mail
Women will do anything for love. That much is clear in Victoria Zackheim's revealing - and riveting - collection of female-authored essays in The Other Woman. The power behind...
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Nov.01.2007
Published by Publishers Weekly
For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies,Growing Older, and Acceptance Edited by Victoria Zackheim. Seal, $15.95 paper (256p) ISBN978-1-58005-204-7
Nora Ephron’s...
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Essayist, anthologist, novelist.”
—This gem of an anthology about what we fear, avoid, would rather not mention, let alone read about---death----is the funniest book I've read in years. (Beverly Donofrio, author of Riding in Cars with Boys and Looking for Mary)
About Victoria
VICTORIA ZACKHEIM is the author of The Bone Weaver and editor of five anthologies: He Said What?, The Other Woman; For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance, The Face in the Mirror:Writers Reflect on Their Dreams of...
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Causes Victoria Zackheim Supports
Delancey Street Foundation Move-on Emily's List Susan G. Komen for the Cure Heifer International