Jim Shepard, Author . Knopf $20 (176p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4071-1
This engrossing novel gives the overworked subject of Columbine-style school massacres an unusually subtle and affecting treatment. Shepard (Nosferatu
; Battling Against Castro
; etc.) follows the travails of Edwin Hanratty, a misfit stuck at the...
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Jim Shepard, Author . Knopf $23 (211p) ISBN 978-0307265210
Following the novel Project X
and Love and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories
, Shepard's new collection takes in landscapes as diverse as 1986 Chernobyl in “The Zero Meter Diving Team,†to 1840s down under in “The First South Central...
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Jim Shepard, Knopf, $24.95 (268p) ISBN 978-0-307-59482-2
The protagonists in Shepard's elegant, darkly tinged stories of love, sometimes misplaced, are searching for something. There's Freya Stark, the ambitious heroine in "The Track of the Assassins," who sets out in 1930 across the Middle East desert...
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Jim Shepard, Author Mariner Books $9.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-15-600140-3
Shepard's much-acclaimed thriller depicts a single mother who attempts to keep secret her involvement in a hit-and-run accident that kills an acquaintance. (Jan.)
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Jim Shepard, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $21.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-15-147279-6
Shepard's gritty, effective fourth novel (after Lights Off in the Reptile House ) opens quietly as a slice-of-life story about an Italian-American family in Connecticut. Joanie Mucherino's husband has recently left her and their 11-year-old son Todd.
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Jim Shepard, Author Alfred A. Knopf $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-44668-2
A memorable cast of characters faces various forms of alienation-psychological, political, physical, economic, social-in 14 alternately humorous and poignant short stories from novelist Shepard. Writing mostly in the first-person, Shepard crafts an...
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Jim Shepard, Author W. W. Norton & Company $18.95 (285p) ISBN 978-0-393-02784-6
By the author of Flights and Paper Doll , this is a grim, frightening coming-of-age novel set in a contemporary police state reminiscent of both South Africa and Nazi Germany. Amateur herpetologist Karel Roeder divides his time between working at...
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Jim Shepard, Author Avon Books $10 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71413-1
Karel Roeder, an inconspicuous member of a contemporary police state, faces danger after government forces claim the zoo where he works, his father disappears and his love interest becomes intolerant of the repressive regime. ``Gruesome scenes of...
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Jim Shepard. Knopf, $22.95 (262p) ISBN 978-1-101-87431-8
Shepard (You Think That’s Bad) is known for his enormous range and for the research that informs his many novels and stories—a reputation that will be reconfirmed with this novel, the acknowledgments section of which runs six pages long. And yet it...
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Jim Shepard. Knopf, $25.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-524-73180-9
In his latest collection, Shepard (The Book of Aron) continues to spin historical yarns, bouncing from the Minoan civilization of 1600 B.C.E. to the 21st-century United States, and the results are rewarding. The incredible “Safety Tips for Living...
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Jim Shepard. Tin House, $15.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-941040-72-0
This intriguing collection from novelist Shepard (The Book of Aron) brings together 10 strong pieces of politically concerned film criticism from the mid-2000s, originally published in early issues of the Believer magazine. The pieces contained...
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Edited by Jacob Weisman. Tachyon, $16.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-61696-210-4
In this very fine reprint anthology, Weisman has brought together 22 SF stories by authors who, although not generally associated with the genre, are clearly fellow travelers (not the ominous invaders suggested by the title). Among the major names...
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Jim Shepard, Author, Robert Gottlieb, Editor Alfred A. Knopf $15.95 (228p) ISBN 978-0-394-55519-5
After Shepard's exhilarating first novel, Flights, this book comes as something of a disappointment. Set during World War II, it is the curiously static story of a bomber crew stationed in England. Though Shepard goes to great lengths in delineating
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Jim Shepard. Knopf, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-525-65545-9
In this disappointing apocalyptic thriller from Shepard (The Book of Aron), a pandemic—exponentially more lethal than Covid-19—originates in a remote Greenland village and spreads worldwide, infecting millions within weeks. Eleven-year old Aleq, one
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