Frederic Tuter, Author, Frederic Tuten, Author Riverhead Books $12 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57322-529-8
A playfully postmodern novel of ideas centers around the enduringly popular French cartoon character. (Feb.)
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Frederic Tuten, Author . Norton $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-05105-6
A tinted review in adult Forecasts indicates a book that's of exceptional importance to our readers but hasn't received a starred or boxed review.THE GREEN HOURFrederic Tuten. Norton, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 0-393-05105-6L'heure verte, the...
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Frederic Tuten, Norton, $23.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-393-07905-0
Inspired by the stories the author read to his possibly illiterate Sicilian grandmother as a child, these nested narratives are told by couples traveling through hallucinatory, romantic landscapes. As the traveler in "Self Portrait with Sicily"...
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Frederic Tuten, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (192p) ISBN 978-0-688-15134-8
A magical painter in words, Tuten (Tintin in the New World) gets inside the Dutch artist's wounded soul as few writers have. In this exquisite postmodernist fantasy, Ursula, a mercurial, morphine-addicted 19-year-old photographer who is Vincent van...
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Frederic Tuten, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $17.95 (150p) ISBN 978-0-374-27249-4
The narrator begins this slim, taut and poignant narrative with a description of his father, ""the John Wayne of socialism,'' a Southern Baptist who organized restaurant workers in New York during the Depression. After a 30-year separation, the son...
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Frederic Tuten, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-12314-7
Everything about this painstakingly crafted but hollow novel smacks of the academy, from the slightly passe mix of popular and literary genres to the appropriation of easily recognized texts. Here we have Tintin, the comic-book hero created in 1929...
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Frederic Tuten. Simon & Schuster, $26 (298p) ISBN 978-1-5011-9445-0
Novelist Tuten (Tintin in the New World) delivers a stirring portrait of himself as a poor, young man growing up in the Bronx of the 1940s through the ’60s, striving to become an artist. From age 10, he dreamed simply of eating apple pie, going to...
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Frederic Tuten. Bellevue Literary Press, $17.99 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-954276-03-1
Novelist and critic Tuten follows up the memoir My Young Life with a heartfelt collection exploring existential quandaries and creative pursuits. “Winter, 1965” depicts a writer whose excitement over an acceptance from a literary journal turns sour...
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