Edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman. Avid Reader, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5011-9040-7
Husband and wife Chabon (Moonglow) and Waldman (A Really Good Day) gather dozens of prominent writers to commemorate the ACLU’s centennial with powerful, inspiring essays on the legal organization’s milestone cases. Addressing City of Chicago v....
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Andrew Sean Greer, Author . Picador USA $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-27556-3
The tracking and exploring of comets and stars proves more melodramatic than one might expect in Greer's quixotic, thinly plotted sophomore effort (after How It Was for Me). In 1965, several astronomers assemble on an island in the South China...
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Andrew Sean Greer, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-12871-5
With a premise straight out of science fiction (or F. Scott Fitzgerald), Greer's second novel plumbs the agonies of misdirected love and the pleasures of nostalgia with gratifying richness. Max Tivoli has aged backwards: born in San Francisco in
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Andrew Sean Greer, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $22 (208p) ISBN 978-0-374-10866-3
As he demonstrated in the imaginative The Confessions of Max Tivoli
, Greer can spin a touching narrative based on an intriguing premise. Even a diligent reader will be surprised by the revelations twisting through this novel and will probably turn...
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Andrew Sean Greer, Author Picador USA $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-24105-6
In his debut collection, comprising 11 short fictions, Greer reveals sensitive, unpredictable characters in direct but subtle prose, saving his most powerful stories for the end. ""The Future of the Flynns"" examines one mostly ordinary family as...
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Andrew Sean Greer. Ecco, $26.99 (289p) ISBN 978-0-06-221378-5
In Greer’s time-traveling fourth novel (following The Story of a Marriage), the eponymous Greta skips between three different eras, and her life is intertwined with the same two characters (and other incarnations of herself) in each. Greta Wells,...
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Andrew Sean Greer. LB/Boudreaux, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-31-631612-5
In Greer’s wistful new novel, a middle-aged writer accepts literary invitations around the world—making his way from San Francisco to New York, Mexico, Italy, Germany, Morocco, India, and Japan—so that he will have an excuse not to attend the...
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Andrew Sean Greer. Little, Brown, $29 (272p) ISBN 978-0-316-49890-6
Greer follows up his Pulitzer-winning Less with another delightful road story featuring middle-aged writer Arthur Less. This time, he’s traveling across the U.S., hoping to raise money to salvage his home with partner Freddy Pelu. Freddy, who...
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Andrew Sean Greer, Author, S. Epatha Merkerson, Read by , read by S. Epatha Merkerson. Macmillan Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0462-2
In this sad but beautiful tale of love, marriage and the limited perspective granted humans, Greer reveals how shocking events are needed to pitch people beyond their one-dimensional views of the world. Living in San Francisco in the mid-1950s,...
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