Douglas Kennedy, Atria, $16 paper (592p) ISBN 978-1-4391-9912-1
In Kennedy's 10th novel, fledgling writer Sara Smythe has defied her parents' wishes, left Hartford, and begun a literary life in post-WWII New York. She lands a sought-after job at Life magazine and frequents parties in Greenwich Village hosted by...
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Douglas Kennedy, Atria, $16 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-4391-9913-8
When American journalist Sally Goodchild, the narrator of Kennedy's fast-paced latest (after Leaving the World), meets British reporter Tony Hobbs on a Red Cross helicopter over Somalia, the attraction is instant. The two reporters escape death at...
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Douglas Kennedy, Author Hyperion Books $23.45 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6298-6
This astonishingly assured first novel, by an American working in London as a journalist, has a breathless readability that is rare-particularly as it seems at first to cover pretty familiar territory. Ben Bradford is a Wall Street lawyer living a...
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Douglas Kennedy, Author Hyperion Books $23.45 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6370-9
Kennedy's first novel, The Big Picture (1997), was a riveting commercial thriller that was perhaps overhyped. His second, though it shares the first book's galloping pace and strong sense of close-of-century angst among the well-fixed, seems, two-thi
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Douglas Kennedy, Atria, $16 trade paper (512p) ISBN 978-1-4516-0209-8
Domestic ennui, sociopolitical commentary, and infidelity are at the center of this nicely paced if sometimes overheated family drama from Kennedy (A Special Relationship). In 1969, 18-year-old Hannah Latham's rebellion against her parents—famous...
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Douglas Kennedy, Atria, $25.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4391-8079-2
Cold war Berlin provides a moody backdrop for Kennedy's tale of a travel writer's remembrances of love and betrayal, friendship and danger, opportunity and entrapment, while working for Radio Liberty in the divided city. Narrator Thomas Nesbitt, age
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Douglas Kennedy. Atria, $16 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-4516-0211-1
The latest in a wave of Kennedy novels to be published in the states in rapid succession (The Moment; etc.) creates a tense sense of unease as a shamed man starting over in Paris realizes he can't hide from his past. Harry Ricks is a disgraced...
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Douglas Kennedy, Author . Atria $16 (480p) ISBN 978-1-4391-8078-5
Published to acclaim in the U.K. and France in 2009, Kennedy’s ninth novel is a complex study of a line early in the book: “nobody gets away lightly in life.” On the morning after narrator Jane Howard’s 13th birthday, her...
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Douglas Kennedy. Atria, $16 trade paper (298p) ISBN 978-1-4516-0210-4
Kennedy’s riveting new novel charts the changing fortunes of Hollywood screenwriter David Armitage when he crosses paths with wealthy, eccentric, and controlling film buff Phil Fleck. After years of rejection, David’s loyal agent sells his...
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Douglas Kennedy. Atria, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4516-6633-5
Laura Warren is a radiographic technician in Maine, trained to spot disease in others, but unable to determine the cause of her own sadness in the bumpy 11th novel from Kennedy (The Moment). Laura’s family is unhappy–her husband’s lengthy...
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Douglas Kennedy. Atria, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4516-6637-3
In Kennedy's (Five Days) melodramatic yet highly entertaining novel, a woman on vacation in Morocco learns that her husband has deceived her in a shocking way. Successful accountant Robin Danvers, after a failed first marriage, hopes she's finally...
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