Brooks Hansen, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-27019-3
"Able was I ere I saw Elba" tends to be all most people recall about Napoleon Bonaparte's fate in exile. In this intriguing but disappointing novel, Hansen (The Chess Garden; Perlman's Ordeal) fleshes out a later stage of the failed...
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Brooks Hansen, Author . Norton $24.95 (391p) ISBN 978-0-393-06947-1
In fictionalizing the life of John the Baptist, Hansen (The Brotherhood of Joseph
) reveals the messy humanity behind the saint. Even readers with a passing knowledge of Christianity will find John’s fate laid out on the first page—his...
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Brooks Hansen, Author Modern Times $24.95 (243p) ISBN 978-1-59486-827-6
Calling to mind the well known adoptive father, Joseph the Carpenter, novelist Hansen (The Monsters of St. Helena) tackles the practical and emotional turmoil facing would-be parents with fertility problems: assisted reproduction technology may be ""
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Brooks Hansen, Author Summit Books $19.45 (394p) ISBN 978-0-671-68108-1
Going one step beyond recent unconventional biographies (such as Edie ) that reconstruct their subjects' lives solely through interviews and letters, this first novel by two young Harvard graduates is a tour de force. Using 23 narrative voices, each
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Brooks Hansen, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-23078-4
Hansen (The Chess Garden) has a particular talent for otherworldly effects, and this account of the experiences of an Austrian doctor in Edwardian London offers a dazzling array of them, from hypnotism to possession to table-tapping to mythical...
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Brooks Hansen, Author, Nick Davis, With Anchor Books $9.5 (394p) ISBN 978-0-385-41977-2
Twenty-three narrative voices, each ``distinctive and accurate in tone and idiom,'' kaleidoscopically limn the intense life of Eton Arthur Boone, a fictional Greenwich village comic and cult figure. ``A tour de force,'' said PW. ``Readers will be...
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Brooks Hansen, Author, Miles Hyman, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-16015-9
A rare and exciting work of character and imagination, Hansen's new novel (after the highly praised Boone, which he coauthored with Nick Davis) is set in 19th-century Dayton, Ohio, in Europe and South Africa during the Boer War and on an imaginary...
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Brooks Hansen, Author, Brooks Hansen, Illustrator . FSG/Sunburst $6.95 (218p) ISBN 978-0-374-41072-8
When two birds become separated, a buck consents to let the female make a nest in its antlers and they set out to find her partner. PW
wrote, "This gentle animal tale about an endearing pair of sparrows and a loyal Nordic deer is just waiting...
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Brooks Hansen, Author, Brooks Hansen, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-31024-0
This gentle animal tale about an endearing pair of sparrows and a loyal Nordic deer is just waiting for graduates of Bambi and Charlotte's Web. Themes of compassion, bravery and determination abound as Hansen, in his first book for young readers,...
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Brooks Hansen. Delphinium, $26 (224p) ISBN 978-1-953002-05-1
Inspired by the death mask of a 19th-century Frenchwoman whose identity has never been discovered, Hansen’s diffuse latest (after Asmodeus) is set during France’s 1889 Exposition Universelle. Traveling through the forests west of Paris, gendarme...
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