George P. Garrett, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $36.95 (552p) ISBN 978-0-15-686303-2
The first of these three highly praised volumes is a fictionalized look at the courageous and gallant life of Sir Walter Raleigh, who awaits execution. According to PW , ``The whole panorama of Elizabethan and early Stuart England comes to life...
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George P. Garrett, Author Doubleday Books $19.95 (349p) ISBN 978-0-385-19095-4
Completing his masterful trilogy of novels set in Elizabethan England, Garrett again applies distinguished literary skills to spin a tale dark with deception and metaphysical questions but teeming with sensuous and concrete details that convey the...
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George P. Garrett, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $19.95 (225p) ISBN 978-0-15-191313-8
Much is enjoyable and uplifting in this farrago of memoir, fable, poem and essay, most of which previously appeared in such journals as Kenyon Review and Virginia Quarterly Review . Garrett, author of novels, poetry, short fiction, biography and...
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George P. Garrett, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-15-157554-1
One of our most protean writers, Garrett forsakes the Elizabethan world of Entered From the Sun in this nearly apocalyptic vision of American society. On April 4, 1968, the day Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis, two murders, a fire, a...
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George P. Garrett, Author, George Core, Introduction by, George Core, Introduction by Southern Methodist University Press $10.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-87074-381-8
Combines the 1961 novel Which Ones Are the Enemy? and nine short stories reflecting the author's military experiences in Europe at the end of the Korean War. (Dec.)
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George P. Garrett, Author, Richard Bausch, Foreword by, Richard Bausch, Foreword by Southern Methodist University Press $19.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-87074-439-6
As Bausch notes with only slight hyperbole in his introduction to this compilation of work by novelist, poet, essayist and critic Garrett, the author's talent is enormously versatile and eclectic. Perhaps that is one reason his name does not loom as
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