Books by Betty Palmer Nelson and Complete Book Reviews
Betty Palmer Nelson, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (242p) ISBN 978-0-312-08169-0
With spare yet rich prose and strong, economical characterization, Nelson continues her Honest Women series ( Private Knowledge ; The Weight of Light ) in this quietly remarkable novel. Set in rural Tennessee between 1913 and 1919, the story of...
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Betty Palmer Nelson, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13942-1
Nearly 200 years of Tennessee melodrama come to a climax in this fifth and final installment of Nelson's Honest Women saga (Uncertain April, etc.), which takes Evelyn Lanier Knight from her college days through marriage, children, divorce and her...
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Betty Palmer Nelson, Author, Dan O'Neill, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (388p) ISBN 978-0-312-11086-4
In the late 1950s, the U.S. Government touted atoms for peace; the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and its research arm, the Livermore National Laboratory (LNL) envisioned changing the face of the earth with atomic blasts that would gouge out canals...
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