John Sedgwick, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-019565-6
The personal values of what could be called Upper Boston are as important as the two main characters—Mrs. Bemis and Alice Matthews, the young psychiatrist who tries to help her—in journalist and author Sedgwick's engaging and warm...
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John Sedgwick, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-052159-2
In this overwritten family biography–cum–memoir, novelist Sedgwick (The Education of Mrs. Bemis
) traces in great detail multiples generations of his wealthy yet ill-starred family. Beginning with his own near suicide, Sedgwick takes the
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John Sedgwick, Author HarperCollins Publishers $0 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-019780-3
Dysfunctional families, damaged children and murderous greed collide against an insufferably preppy backdrop in first-timer Sedgwick's ambitious thriller. The protagonist, Edward Rollins, is a timid American Psycho: rather than killing his quarry,...
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John Sedwick, Author, John Sedgwick, Author William Morrow & Company $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-06367-2
During a year ""observing'' at the Philadelphia Zoo, Sedgwick (Night Vision, Rich Kids) came to understand the unique relationship between zoo personnel and animals. He writes of the deep affection that the keepers and vets have for the animals and...
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John Sedgwick. Berkley, $27.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-59240-852-8
Journalist and novelist Sedgwick (In My Blood) looks back on one of America’s earliest scandals: the duel between Alexander Hamilton, the nation’s first secretary of the treasury, and Aaron Burr, the sitting vice president. The standoff stemmed from
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John Sedgwick. Simon & Schuster, $30 (512p) ISBN 978-1-5011-2871-4
In this richly textured slice of Native American history, journalist Sedgwick (War of Two) delves into the decades-long conflicts that divided the Cherokee Nation and eventually led factions to fight on both sides of the Civil War. At the center sit
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John Sedgwick. Avid Reader, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-1-982104-28-3
Novelist and historian Sedgwick (Blood Moon) delivers a dense yet colorful history of the “frenzied competition” between two railroad tycoons to lay tracks between Colorado and the Pacific Ocean. Sedgwick casts Rio Grande railway owner Gen. William...
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