In this sincere but uneven SF novel from Nova (The Good Son) set in a gloomy and menacing near future, biotechnology engineer Hal Briggs designs human-like creatures to perform menial or dangerous jobs such as street-cleaning or mining. With demand...
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Craig Nova, Author . Crown/Shaye Areheart $24 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4536-5
Nova's muted, somewhat bleak novel, set in a Vermont mill town, hints at disaster from its first pages. The product of a catastrophic childhood, Frank Kohler is a loner who "knew he was running out of time." The reader knows it, too, and
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Craig Nova, Author . Crown/Shaye Areheart $26 (306p) ISBN 978-0-307-23693-7
Set in 1930 Berlin, this fine novel from Nova (The Good Son
) smoothly combines crime and politics. Armina Treffen, who works for the serious crimes section of the Berlin police department and has a successful track record catching serial killers,...
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Craig Nova, Author Delacorte Press $16.95 (301p) ISBN 978-0-385-29455-3
Harlow Pearson, twice U.S. Representative from Vermont, is a fly fisherman, a gambler, a womanizer and a father. Since his love for daughter Alexandra never exceeds his overwhelming need for control, it's not entirely surprising that her pregnancy...
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Craig Nova, Author Delacorte Press $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-29710-3
Prize-winning novelist Nova ( Incandescence ; The Good Son ) compellingly explores the dark, fatalistic love between earnest Ben Lunn, a doctor's son expert at predicting storms, and Marie Boule, who calls herself ``Christine Taylor'' (``that's a...
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Craig Nova, Author Grove/Atlantic $19.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1359-7
Nova ( The Good Son ; Incandescence ) here taps the heat and energy of the bond between a son and his arsonist father . Ray Gollanz is not yet 20 when he first accompanies his father, Dean, on his outside job as an arsonist-for-hire. Intelligent and
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Craig Nova, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $23 (250p) ISBN 978-0-395-70938-2
Nova's unsteady ninth novel (after The Book of Dreams, 1994) follows the love triangle of two doctors and a scientist to its wrenching conclusion. Virginia Lee moves to L.A. to escape a past that saw her living a practical and routine life but all...
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Craig Nova. Counterpoint, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61902-023-8
Nova’s latest effort is an evocative family yarn that follows a father and son at odds with each other’s morality and a wild-card woman pulling the strings. Jake, the novel’s capable 17-year-old narrator, is the son of mismatched parents, a New Age–o
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Craig Nova. Counterpoint (PGW, dist.), $26 (352p) ISBN 978-1-58243-828-3
Nova’s career-defining 1982 novel The Good Son explored the relationship between a domineering, social-climbing father, Pop Mackinnon, and his loyal but restless son Chip, a World War II veteran who returns home to an arranged marriage. This equally
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Craig Nova, Author, Robert W. Harris, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-63650-3
In his eighth novel, Nova ( The Good Son ; Trombone ) returns to his hometown of Hollywood for this suspenseful but problematic story of murder and blackmail. Fans will recognize the author's trademark convergent plot construction as he steers his...
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Craig Nova. Arcade CrimeWise, $25.99 (264p) ISBN 978-1-950691-22-7
A Hollywood producer hires L.A. fixer Quinn Farrell, the winning protagonist of this excellent series launch from Nova (All the Dead Yale Men), because he’s worried about one of his movie stars, Terry Peregrine (“a hymn to falseness”), with good...
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