Brian Morton, Author . Harcourt $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-15-100757-8
Suffering a "crisis of the spirit" and stagnating in her relationship with an ailing academic, short story writer Nora Howard calls her old flame, photographer Isaac Mitchell, at three a.m. one night, after not having spoken with him for...
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Brian Morton, Author . Harcourt $25 (361p) ISBN 978-0-15-101192-6
While the story of two broken couples—one by infidelity, one by tragedy—contains a number of maudlin moments, this polished novel's touchy-feely title belies the trenchant humor of its take on contemporary New York, especially its...
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Brian Morton, Author Crown Publishers $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-517-70862-0
Morton, a magazine editor whose only previous novel was The Dylanist, is a deceptively simple writer. The beginning of his new book is so apparently artless it gives no hint of the subtle, tender and moving story to come. Leonard Schiller is an...
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Brian Morton, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (312p) ISBN 978-0-06-016662-5
In this accomplished first novel, Morton perceptively charts the unextraordinary course of Sally Burke, daughter of former Communists, who grows up in the 1970s without a commitment to causes such as those that shaped the lives of her parents. Her...
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Brian Morton. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-544-30986-9
Morton (Starting Out in the Evening) offers up a fascinating family presided over by the irascible Florence Gordon, a 75-year-old New York City intellectual and feminist activist who likes to surprise, argue, and criticize. Florence never sought...
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Brian Morton. Avid Reader, $27 (224p) ISBN 978-1-982178-93-2
The tumultuous bond between a mother and son animates this unstinting yet tender work from novelist Morton (Florence Gordon). When, after years of “successfully [keeping] her at arm’s length,” Morton’s mother’s worsening dementia forced the two of...
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