Christine Schutt, Author . Northwestern Univ./Triquarterly $22.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-8101-5153-6
National Book Award nominee Schutt (Florida
; Nightwork
) writes with startling beauty and frustrating restraint in 11 searing stories that reveal less than they artfully decline to reveal. A young American couple living in England find themselves...
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Christine Schutt, Author . Harcourt $22 (223p) ISBN 978-0-15-101449-1
The brutal, materialistic and dysfunctional underbelly of prep schools and the females who live in it create the foundation for Schutt’s beautifully written but light-on-substance novel (following 2004’s National Book Award finalist...
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Christine Schutt, Author Alfred A. Knopf $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40451-4
Unsettling insights and beautifully stylized prose propel Schutt's impressive first book, a story collection. The writing is spare and the stories brief, creating an effect more akin to the compression of prose poetry than to conventional minimalist
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Christine Schutt. Grove, $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2038-0
Ned and Isabel are married, but other than a college courtship that neither ever felt like ending, their relationship appears to be more of a habit than a romance. Isabel is sad a lot. Ned, a writer, appears to have tried his hardest to make things...
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Christine Schutt. Grove, $23 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2761-7
Nobody writes like Schutt, the National Book Award–finalist author of Florida, and her latest collection is the perfect entry point for readers new to her work. In the title novella, an alcoholic, recently widowed actress leaves her sprawling estate
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