Jennifer Finney Boylan, Author . Broadway $23.95 (270p) ISBN 978-0-7679-2174-9
Boylan, an English professor, novelist and memoirist (She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders
), tells of growing up in a haunted house in Pennsylvania, where phantom footfalls and spectral mists were practically commonplace. This was a fitting-enou
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Jennifer Finney Boylan. Crown, $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7679-2176-3
In a mixed-bag follow-up memoir to her previous account of transitioning from male to female (She’s Not There), Boylan, who teaches writing at Colby College, Maine, enlists different perspectives by writers and others to explore in depth how...
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Jennifer Finney Boylan, Author, Richard Russo, Afterword by . Broadway $24.95 (300p) ISBN 978-0-7679-1404-8
Boylan is 45 years old, but for more than 40 of those years she was James Finney Boylan.
A Colby College professor and author of four books of fiction, Boylan has a good comic ear, and that humor keeps the book, which tells the story of Boylan's
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Jennifer Finney Boylan, Author, James Finney Boylan, Author Poseidon Press $18.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-72715-4
This unconventional, imaginative and funny first novel by the author of the short story collection Remind Me to Murder You Later makes the most of its bizarre but real-life setting: the coal-mining town of Centralia, Pa., where an underground mine...
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Jennifer Finney Boylan, Author, James Finney Boylan, Author Vintage Books USA $10 (265p) ISBN 978-0-679-73906-7
This humorous, unconventional novel is set in Centralia, Pa., where Nature is in chaos, sulfurous fumes from mine fires fill the air and seemingly random events are cosmically interrelated. (Apr.)
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James Boylan, Author, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Author Warner Books $19.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-446-67417-1
Comic novelist Boylan (The Constellations) takes a road trip on the elite New England college circuit with four interviewing high-school seniors and three incompetent adults, all in a Winnebago, and along the way manages to drive his farcical...
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James Boylan, Author, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Author Johns Hopkins University Press $19.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8018-3728-9
``Remind me to murder you later'' is an epithet muttered by none other than ``top Stooge'' Moe Howard, and he's but one of the many surprising characters in this collection of distinctive stories. In them, Boylan vividly displays his personaand we...
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James Finney Boylan, Author, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Author Random House (NY) $22 (265p) ISBN 978-0-679-43021-6
Boylan's comic sequel to his 1991 debut, The Planets, offers some delightful scenes, but a lack of narrative structure and a tendency toward excessive silliness skewer his saga about a crew of oddballs and misfits in suburban Philadelphia. The...
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Jennifer Finney Boylan. Crown, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-451-49632-4
At the start of this madcap thriller full of hidden identities from Boylan (She’s Not There), a night of goofy postcollege mischief goes horribly amiss in Philadelphia’s shut-down Eastern State Penitentiary in 1980. When human remains surface at the
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Jennifer Finney Boylan. Celadon, $26.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-26187-8
“Everything I know about love I learned from dogs,” writes New York Times columnist Boylan in this eloquent memoir. Expanding on her 2003 account of life as a transgender woman, She’s Not There, Boylan examines her transition through seven dogs who...
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Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan. Ballantine, $29.99 (464p) ISBN 978-1-9848-1838-6
Picoult (Wish You Were Here) joins forces with novelist and transgender activist Boylan (Long Black Veil) for a spellbinding yarn involving a teen’s trial for murder. Beekeeper Olivia McAfee fled her abusive husband in Boston for New Hampshire with...
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