Books by J. Courtney Sullivan and Complete Book Reviews
J. Courtney Sullivan, Author . Knopf $24 (324p) ISBN 978-0-307-27074-0
It isn't quite love at first sight when Celia, Sally, Bree and April meet as first-year hall mates at Smith College in the late 1990s. Sally, whose mother has just died, is too steeped in grief to think about making new friends, and April's
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J. Courtney Sullivan. Knopf, $25.95 (386p) ISBN 978-0-307-59512-6
Sullivan follows debut Commencement with a summer spritzer that's equal parts family drama, white wine, and Hail Marys. The story follows the struggles of three generations of Kelleher women: drunken Alice, the mass-going matriarch; her rebel...
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J. Courtney Sullivan. Knopf, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-307-95957-7
Sullivan’s (The Engagements) latest is the story of Rafferty family matriarch Nora, her estranged sister, Theresa, and the secrets that an Irish Catholic upbringing led them to keep from their children. After leaving Ireland for Boston in the late ’5
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J. Courtney Sullivan. Knopf, $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-52059-7
Sullivan’s intimate, incisive latest (after Saints for all Occasions) explores the evolving friendship between a new mother and her babysitter. After journalist Elisabeth Ronson moves with her husband, Andrew, and infant son, Gil, from Brooklyn to...
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