Jeffrey Lent, Author . Grove/Atlantic $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-87113-843-9
While the classic western naturally concentrates on the West, there were pockets in the East that were as wild as Dodge City, and Lent has found one in his second novel. Northern New Hampshire in 1838 was a long way from Nathaniel Hawthorne's...
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Jeffrey Lent, Author . Atlantic Monthly $25 (395p) ISBN 978-0-87113-965-8
Family-fracturing secrets are at the heart of Lent's luminous third novel, a transcendent story about the healing power of love and art. Two decades after an intense romance curdles, hermetic Hewitt Pearce is living in his family's rural...
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Jeffrey Lent, Author . Grove Atlantic $25 (249p) ISBN 978-0-87113-894-1
A widower, suddenly bereft, finds an unexpected future when he goes to Amsterdam looking for his past in Lent’s intricate and rewarding fourth novel. Henry Dorn is an upright college professor whose relatively tranquil existence is upended...
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Jeffrey Lent, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $25 (542p) ISBN 978-0-87113-765-4
The immediacy of the past, the tensions of race, the crushing weight of guilt and the searing intensity of forbidden love drive Lent's expansive, richly detailed and expertly plotted debut novel. Spanning three generations, from the end of the Civil
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Jeffrey Lent. Bloomsbury, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-1-62040-496-6
A double murder stirs old loyalties and resentments in Lent’s (In the Fall) atmospheric novel. Malcolm Hopeton, a soldier newly returned from the Civil War, finds himself betrayed by both his wife, Bethany, and Amos Wheeler, the hired man entrusted...
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Jeffrey Lent. Bloomsbury, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-1-62040-499-7
In his novel set in Vermont between the end of World War II and the early ’60s, Lent switches between the perspectives of a mother and daughter growing in different directions, but also growing closer as secrets from the past are revealed. Katey...
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