Elizabeth Arthur, Author Ballantine Books $14 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-40207-3
Arthur's epic novel chronicles a modern-day woman whose disgust with society's plundering of the environment leads to her decision to recreate Robert Scott's failed Antarctic expedition of 1910. (Mar.)
READ FULL REVIEW
Elizabeth Arthur, Author Alfred A. Knopf $16.95 (261p) ISBN 978-0-394-55442-6
It's hard to know which part of this inventive novel to like the most: its charactersthe drifters, juvenile delinquents and generally bewildered outsiders who inhabit its Alaskan wilderness settingor the wilderness itself, the setting these people...
READ FULL REVIEW
Elizabeth Arthur, Author Doubleday Books $17.95 (372p) ISBN 978-0-385-24844-0
Like an offbeat, modern fairy tale, this story of love and politics set in rural Indiana combines animals, weather, psychology and even a would-be witch in its own enchanting spell. Different expectations are aroused when news reaches the farming...
READ FULL REVIEW
Elizabeth Arthur, Author Graywolf Press $9.95 (220p) ISBN 978-1-55597-149-6
Disillusioned with urban life, Arthur and her husband built a home on an isolated three-acre British Columbian island, but reconsidered their move after a difficult winter. ``Arthur does not spin a tale of defeat and self-pity; it is an honest story
READ FULL REVIEW
Elizabeth Arthur, Author Alfred A. Knopf $23 (321p) ISBN 978-0-679-41894-8
To fully appreciate novelist Arthur's ( Binding Spell ) memoir of the five childhood summers she spent at a Vermont camp in the early 1960s, readers must slow themselves to a sun-drenched amble. This may be no page-turner, but the author's hypnotic...
READ FULL REVIEW
Elizabeth Arthur, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (798p) ISBN 978-0-679-41895-5
In a triumph of the novelist's art, Arthur (Looking for the Klondike Stone) brings a wide-ranging intelligence and curiosity, a compelling skill in character portrayal and a moral gravity to this 800-page story of human quest. In chronicling the...
READ FULL REVIEW
