Bill Roorbach, Author . Counterpoint $25 (336p) ISBN 978-1-58243-152-9
Roorbach has quietly built a stellar reputation based on short fiction (Big Bend, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award) and nonfiction (Writing Life Stories; Summers with Juliet), but has escaped wider notice—perhaps because he hadn't
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Bill Roorbach, Author . Dial $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-33654-3
Roorbach (Big Bend
) takes readers on a journey in and around Temple Stream, which flows by his 1874 home near Farmington, Maine, about 40 miles northwest of Augusta. He records a series of forays along his stream, observing subtle environmental...
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Bill Roorbach. Algonquin, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-61620-076-3
An exploration of lives touched by greatness and tragedy in equal measure, Roorbach’s latest novel traces towering Princeton graduate and NFL player–cum– restaurateur David “Lizard” Hochmeyer in his attempt to unravel the tangled conspiracy behind...
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Bill Roorbach. Algonquin, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-61620-331-3
Roorbach’s latest (after Life Among Giants) begins on the eve of the first big snowstorm of the season in the woods of Maine, with smalltown defense lawyer Eric waiting in line behind a raggedly dressed, strikingly thin young woman with matted hair...
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Bill Roorbach. Algonquin, $16.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-61620-332-0
The 10 generous, daring short stories in the new collection by the author of Life Among Giants range from tricky romance to dark comedy to breathtaking adventure. Roorbach casts his gaze on characters whose lives are spinning out of control....
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Bill Roorbach, Author, William Roorbach, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-395-57323-5
Roorbach's debut provides pure enchantment, linking a story of natural wonders to the wonders of his romance with one Juliet Karelson. They met in 1982--he was 29 and she was 20--and began to take camping trips together, with little money roughing...
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Bill Roorbach. Algonquin, $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-64375-097-2
Roorbach’s sprawling latest (after the collection The Girl of the Lake) focuses on a white girl’s coming-of-age and the men in her life. At 16, in the late 1990s, Cindra Zoeller is charged as an accomplice for armed robbery with her boyfriend, Dag,...
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Bill Roorbach. Algonquin, $28 (240p) ISBN 978-1-64375-561-8
In the uplifting latest from Roorbach (Lucky Turtle), a girl and a monkey forge a life-altering friendship. The narrator, Beep, a restless squirrel monkey in a Costa Rican rainforest, leaves his family and sets out to find a mate, climbing his way...
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