Gary Krist, Author . Broadway $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7679-1330-0
Krist (Chaos Theory; Bad Chemistry) uses the analogous market excesses of the 1690s and the 1990s as dual, parallel settings for a young man's journey up the business ladder as he tries to make his fortune through the stock market. The...
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Gary Krist, Author . Holt $26 (315p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7705-6
In a briskly paced and vividly written account, novelist Krist (Bad Chemistry
) relates the tale of two trains, trapped on the tracks in Washington's Cascade Mountains in February 1910, that were subsequently swept away by the deadliest...
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Gary Krist, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $16.95 (178p) ISBN 978-0-15-134292-1
Suburban northern New Jersey, in the vicinity of Route 4, is the setting for many of the amusingly perceptive vignettes in this first collection of eight stories. Through these piquant human comedies, Krist takes us into family constellations that...
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Gary Krist, Author Vintage Books USA $7.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-72515-2
Suburban northern New Jersey, in the vicinity of Rte. 4, is the setting for many of the amusingly perceptive vignettes in this first collection of eight stories. ``Krist knows his territory and his people, pinning down their reality in a cultural...
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Gary Krist, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-15-182064-1
Probing the quiet depths of suburban desperation, Krist ( The Garden State ) extends the lessons of Cheever and Updike while steering his second short-story collection in some decidedly odd directions. The author has a knack for creating characters...
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Gary Krist, Author Random House (NY) $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-679-44931-7
Another literary writer goes commercial--but Krist is no Catherine Pelletier. Unlike the author of Dancing at the Harvest Moon, Krist makes his move under his own name, hews to the theme--suburban desperation--that has run through his two praised...
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Gary Krist, Author Random House (NY) $24 (368p) ISBN 978-0-375-50080-0
Spinning a plausible situation into an extraordinary story while training a marksman's eye on character, Krist has conceived a sleek and thoughtful thriller set on the streets of Washington, D.C. Two affluent high school classmates, Jason Rourke and
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Gary Krist. Crown, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-307-45429-4
Drawing readers in by focusing on the stories of individual Chicoans affected by a series of tragic events, Krist (The White Cascade) describes a Chicago that was “push[ed]… to the edge of civic disintegration” by 12 days of crises in the summer of...
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Gary Krist. Crown, $27 (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-49638-6
Krist (Empire of Sin) reveals how a rural backwater was transformed into a verdant multicultural metropolis through ingenuity, chicanery, and hyperbole in this engrossing history of Los Angeles. Focusing on the years 1900 through 1930, Krist draws...
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Gary Krist, read by Robertson Dean. Dreamscape Media, , unabridged, 9 CDs, 11 hrs., $49.99 ISBN 978-1-63379-323-1
This well-researched book captures an exciting chapter in the history of Louisiana’s most vibrant city. During the late Victorian era, New Orleans reformers hoped to confine the city’s notorious vices to one officially sanctioned district,...
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Gary Krist. Crown, $32 (400p) ISBN 978-0-593-44421-4
In this masterful work of true crime, Krist (The Mirage Factory) wraps a detailed portrait of a booming late-19th-century San Francisco around an engrossing account of a scandalous murder. In 1870, a woman named Laura Fair shot her lover, prominent...
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