Books by Connie May Fowler and Complete Book Reviews
Connie May Fowler, Author . Doubleday $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-50201-6
In this unique personal narrative, Fowler offers an eloquent look into the mind of a battered woman. Directly addressing her former abuser, she tells the story of their relationship and her gradual emergence from her own "self-loathing." A...
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Connie May Fowler, Author . Doubleday $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-49981-1
This elegiac novel, chronicling the life and death of idiosyncratic Murmur Lee Harp, showcases Fowler's easy, loose-limbed prose and sympathetic eye for human fallibility. Murmur Lee, 35, owns a popular local rundown bar in a North Florida...
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Connie May Fowler, Author . Grand Central $21.99 (278p) ISBN 978-0-446-54068-1
In this gloomy novel, Fowler (Before Women Had Wings
) presents a day in the life of writer Clarissa Burden, stuck in a loveless marriage and preoccupied with a joyless childhood. Memories of a cruel mother aren't the only things haunting...
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Connie May Fowler, Author Washington Square Press $22.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-671-74809-8
First novelist Fowler creates a lively chorus of Southern voices in this engrossing tale of domestic life, civil rights and the supernatural in 1960s Florida. (Mar.)
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Connie May Fowler, Author Ballantine Books $14 (268p) ISBN 978-0-449-91144-0
Oprah's optioned this trailer-park tale of child abuse and redemption, which PW praised in a starred review for its ""harrowing details"" and ""plangent, lyrical prose."" (May)
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Connie May Fowler, Author Putnam Adult $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-14129-4
A nine-year-old narrator whose voice is heavy with sorrow, but who learns truths about the heart, is the focus of Fowler's deeply moving, triumphant third novel. The reader, too, learns lessons about a child's love for her parents, even when that...
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Connie May Fowler, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (319p) ISBN 978-0-399-13681-8
First novelist Fowler creates a lively, interwoven chorus of Southern voices in this engrossing tale of domestic life, civil rights and the supernatural in 1960s Florida. Among the speakers are Inez Temple, a respected and feared black woman whose...
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Connie May Fowler, Author Putnam Publishing Group $22.95 (318p) ISBN 978-0-399-13912-3
The power of stories and myths to shape our lives is the leitmotif of Fowler's second novel, as it was in her well-received Sugar Cage , but this novel lacks the vibrancy and distinctive narrative voice that made the earlier book so memorable. This...
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Connie May Fowler, Author Doubleday Books $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-49842-5
When starry-eyed Matilda Fiona O'Roarke (Mattie) meets burly, romantic Proteus Nicholas Blue (Nick), she's a clerk at a Tallahassee convenience store and he's working for a logging firm. He tells her he comes from a long line of rugged Greek-American
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