Gregory Gibson, Author . Harcourt $24 (274p) ISBN 978-0-15-101233-6
From the late 1950s until her death in 1971, renowned photographer Diane Arbus took pictures of oddball performers at the now-forgotten Hubert's Museum, a typical freak show in New York City's seedy Times Square. One frequent subject was...
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Gregory Gibson, Author Kodansha America $24 (224p) ISBN 978-1-56836-292-2
The recent rash of school shootings makes Gibson's heartbreaking book as timely as it is good. Shortly before Christmas in 1992, an alienated, angry student named Wayne Lo went on a shooting rampage at Simon's Rock College in western Massachusetts,...
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Gregory Gibson. Grove/Atlantic/Mysterious, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2113-4
The 1967 Newark, N.J., riots form the backdrop for Gibson’s quirky, amusing first novel. Farmed on “a remote Anatolian plateau” by an old Turk, “ten plastic sacks of diacetyl morphine” arrive in New Jersey in the care of the notorious Street...
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Gregory Gibson, Author, Erik A. R. Ronnberg, Jr., Illustrator, Gary Tonkin, Illustrator . Little, Brown $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-29923-7
In 1978, a sailor's log of apparently little value surfaced in Vevay, Ind., and the notebook was eventually discovered to have been penned in 1827 by a 17-year-old sailor named Augustus Strong, stationed aboard the Dolphin, a U.S. Navy schooner...
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