Holly Hobbie. Little, Brown, $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-07017-1
Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti’s version of Hansel and Gretel may be a current darling, but Hobbie’s version is as harrowing, if not more; the starving family’s plight and grim cruelty that drive the action seem grounded in a not-very-distant...
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Douglas Hobbie, Author Henry Holt & Company $23 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5492-7
An intricate approach to that most gothic of horrors, the death of a child, underpins this fascinating but eventually frustrating novel by Hobbie (Boomfell). Professor and critic Henry Ash arrives at the empty Vermont summer house of his sister-in-la
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Douglas Hobbie, Author Henry Holt & Company $0 (281p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1534-8
Charlie Boomfell, a Massachusetts real estate agent, onetime college teacher and failed epic poet, suspects that life is a lonely journey into hopelessness, and marriage either a stupor or a form of sickness. Yet for all Charlie's moody ruminations,
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Douglas Hobbie, Author Henry Holt & Company $22 (241p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2519-4
Quietly and subtly, in a seamless style composed of wonderfully crafted sentences, Hobbie's second novel (after the award-winning Boomfell ) burrows deep into the psyche of architect Jack Fletcher. ``The Day'' is Thanksgiving; Jack, his attractive...
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Douglas Hobbie, Author Henry Holt & Company $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2520-0
In this painfully honest account, Hobbie (Boomfell) details his daughter Brett's five-year battle with Hodgkin's disease. Brett, a talented 23-year-old artist, had just begun an independent life in San Francisco when she was diagnosed with lymphoma.
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