Antonya Nelson, Author . Scribner $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1871-9
Uneven but deeply affecting, Nelson's fourth story collection (she's also written three novels) maps the dimensions of the human—usually female—heart, both in love and in grief. Troubles, as the title suggests, abound: affairs,
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Antonya Nelson, Author . Scribner $14 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1874-0
Adults consider but rarely do the right thing, while damaged children instinctively persevere in Nelson's skillful collection of seven stories and a novella, set in wide-open, arid Western states. Growing restless and resentful in her middle age,
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Antonya Nelson, Author . Bloomsbury $25 (296p) ISBN 978-1-59691-574-9
In this powerful collection of 11 short stories, Nelson's brilliantly constructed characters negotiate love, family, home and truth. Nelson consistently pays exquisite attention to detail, resulting in rich, vivid characters and settings. In
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Antonya Nelson, Bloomsbury, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-1-59691-575-6
Nelson’s (Talking in Bed) first novel in 10 years is set largely in the author’s childhood town of Wichita, Kans. Catherine Desplaines and her husband, Oliver, are at a crossroads in their marriage. The much older Oliver has perfected a pattern:...
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Antonya Nelson, Author University of Georgia Press $19.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-8203-1156-2
Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Nelson Algren Award and a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, Nelson makes a vivid and exciting debut with this short-story collection. In the dozen entries here, we meet characters who...
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Antonya Nelson, Author Scribner Book Company $22 (288p) ISBN 978-0-684-83932-5
At 29, Birdy Stone is a restless spirit. Unmoored by her mother's death, her father's remarriage and her sister's estrangement, she has abruptly run out on her former fiance. Now she lives in a trailer in tiny Pinetop, N.M., where she teaches...
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Antonya Nelson, Author Scribner Book Company $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-83933-2
Readers familiar with Nelson's previous two novels and three collections of short fiction will be pleased to find her abundant gifts on display in this ambitious new novel: her wild wit, piercing insight and fearless candor. In richly detailed...
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Antonya Nelson, Author William Morrow & Company $19 (239p) ISBN 978-0-688-10657-7
The land of men in the 10 edgy and unforgettable stories in Nelson's second collection (after The Expendables ) has less to do with setting--here, variously Chicago, New Mexico and Colorado--than a state of mind, defined by violence or the hint of...
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Antonya Nelson, Author Avon Books $8 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71488-9
The land of men in these 10 edgy and unforgettable stories is less a place than a state of mind, defined by violence or the hint of it. (Feb.)
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Antonya Nelson, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (269p) ISBN 978-0-395-68679-9
While some may regard family ties as a safety net, and others see them as an entangling web, it's not an either/or proposition for the families in Nelson's third collection, consisting of seven stories and a novella. With clarity and compassion, the
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Antonya Nelson, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-68678-2
Fans of Nelson's three short-story collections (one of which, The Expendables, won the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction) will not be disappointed in her first novel, a provocative portrayal of the psychology of domestic crisis. This is the...
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Antonya Nelson. Bloomsbury, $20 (304p) ISBN 978-1-62040-861-2
Nelson’s stories are frequently anthologized, and for good reason: they feature memorable, albeit often desperately unhappy, characters; evocative Southwestern settings; and a refreshing frankness about the emptiness of modern life. She starts her...
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Antonya Nelson, read by Cassandra Campbell, Tantor Media, unabridged, seven CDs, 9 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4001-1864-9
Nelson's unflinchingly frank story of the sexual and alcoholic excess buried in the pasts of a married couple is read with care and compassion by Cassandra Campbell, whose breathy voice exposes the hidden unpleasantness in Catherine and Oliver's...
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