Agnes Rossi, Author New York University Press $27.5 (81p) ISBN 978-0-8147-7400-7
Winner of the 1986 NYU Creative Writers Competition, Rossi's lively collection of 10 short stories introduces an assortment of offbeat characters meandering through life. Faced with realities that don't match their expectations, they tend to stumble
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Agnes Rossi, Author Random House (NY) $20 (223p) ISBN 978-0-679-42543-4
This uneven novel by the author of The Quick spans three days in the lives of two New Jersey women. Incensed over her boss's ban on split skirts in the office, 29-year-old, tough-mouthed Rita goes out to a bar and is arrested for drunk driving and...
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Agnes Rossi, Author W. W. Norton & Company $11 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-31470-0
A novella and stories dealing with themes including grief, honesty and isolation. (May)
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Agnes Rossi, Author Dutton Books $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-525-94365-5
Based loosely on pivotal events in the life of author Rossi's mother, this tale of loss, displacement and new beginnings is set in 1930s Ireland and Paterson, N.J. The novel opens with a tragic scene in Ireland: young Maura learns that her mother...
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