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The Professor of Immortality is intimate and sweeping, funny and terrifying, and most of all dead-on in its observations of what it means to want to know everything about people we love while still being frightened of what we might find out: it's a detective story, and a story of motherlove. Eileen Pollack is a splendid writer. -- Elizabeth McCracken, author of Bowlaway The Professor of Immortality is a tragicomedy about the paradoxes of trying to be a decent human, and--maybe even trickier--of trying to be a decent mom. It's also page by page a joy to read. Eileen Pollack is one of the smartest, funniest, and most companionable novelists out there. -- Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances In this exceptional novel, Eileen Pollack writes with great immediacy about the impact of grief on a parent's perception of the world. Tender, wry, full of unexpected revelations, The Professor of Immortality gripped me from the first scene, and the urgent questions it poses have stayed with me. -- Idra Novey, author of Those Who Knew Pollack blends crime thriller and family drama into a provocative...novel. -- Publishers Weekly

Pollack blends crime thriller and family drama into a provocative...novel. -- Publishers Weekly In this exceptional novel, Eileen Pollack writes with great immediacy about the impact of grief on a parent's perception of the world. Tender, wry, full of unexpected revelations, The Professor of Immortality gripped me from the first scene, and the urgent questions it poses have stayed with me. -- Idra Novey, author of Those Who Knew The Professor of Immortality is a tragicomedy about the paradoxes of trying to be a decent human, and--maybe even trickier--of trying to be a decent mom. It's also page by page a joy to read. Eileen Pollack is one of the smartest, funniest, and most companionable novelists out there. -- Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances The Professor of Immortality is intimate and sweeping, funny and terrifying, and most of all dead-on in its observations of what it means to want to know everything about people we love while still being frightened of what we might find out: it's a detective story, and a story of motherlove. Eileen Pollack is a splendid writer. -- Elizabeth McCracken, author of Bowlaway

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"Eileen Pollack graduated with a BS in physics from Yale and earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa. She is the author of the novels The Bible of Dirty Jokes, A Perfect Life, Breaking and Entering, and Paradise, New York, the short-story collections In the Mouth and The Rabbi in the Attic, and the nonfiction books The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club, and Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Michener Foundation, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and the Massachusetts Arts Council. Her novella The Bris was chosen to appear in Best American Short Stories, edited by Stephen King; two other stories have been awarded Pushcart Prizes, and her essay ""Pigeons"" was selected by Cheryl Strayed for Best American Essays. Formerly the director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan, she now lives in New York City."

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