Elise Blackwell, Author . Little, Brown $16.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-316-73895-8
An elderly Russian émigré reminisces about love in the shadow of war in this quietly effective, poignant debut. The opening chapters find the anonymous narrator ensconced in his New York apartment, waxing poetic about his life as a...
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Elise Blackwell, Author . Unbridled $23.95 (210p) ISBN 978-1-932961-31-7
On the eve of Hurricane Katrina, the now elderly narrator, Louis Proby, remembers the great floods of his small Louisiana town in 1927, recounting an intimate, resonant history of the era of Huey Long and Marcus Garvey. Louis, 17, is the son of...
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Elise Blackwell, Author . Toby $24.95 (353p) ISBN 978-1-59264-199-4
Three no-longer-so-young “irony boys” and their put-upon wives and girlfriends write, drink, pace the streets of contemporary New York City and occasionally manage to publish a novel or two in this biting remake of George Gissing's...
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Elise Blackwell, Author . Unbridled $24.95 (264p) ISBN 978-1-936071-66-1
Blackwell’s melodramatic fourth novel dwells on the odd circumstances that befall an unhappily married concert violist. Suzanne learns of the death of Alex Elling, an orchestral conductor and her lover, as she fixes a meal for her stoic...
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Elise Blackwell. Unbridled, $16 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-60953-119-5
Blackwell’s (The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish) newest novel immerses readers immediately in sticky, noirish post-Katrina New Orleans. Four unlikely people are drawn together by the seemingly unrelated murder of a tourist. Eli, a rehabilitated
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