Jonathan Carroll, Author Doubleday Books $22 (212p) ISBN 978-0-385-46841-1
Long popular in Germany and other parts of Europe, Carroll is acquiring a larger audience here, but his latest effort, though as provocative and as cleverly written as his previous books ( Outside the Dog Museum ; After Silence ), does not quite...
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Jonathan Carroll. Subterranean (subterraneanpress.com), $40 (96p) ISBN 978-1-59606-725-7
When dream worlds collide, real lives are shaken in this biting novella. Tony Areal gets the watch, the car, and finally the woman of his dreams—office prima donna Lena Schabort—but what he yearns for are the dreams themselves. He arranges a “job...
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Jonathan Carroll. St. Martin’s, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-04826-4
Carroll (The Ghost in Love) drenches prosaic modern life with horrifying surrealism in this hallucinatory contemporary myth, which mingles terror and awe with family strife. Unhappy couple Dean and Vanessa inexplicably share a dream with Kasper,...
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Jonathan Carroll. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $45 (584p) ISBN 978-1-59606-494-2
Like a capricious god who bestows grace erratically, Carroll (The Ghost in Love) entangles characters in the mysteries of love and forgiveness throughout this weighty collection of 37 of his shorter works. No sure path to happiness or redemption is...
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Jonathan Carroll, Author Orb Books $15.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1186-3
Jonathan Carroll aficionados won't want to miss the repackaging of his 1989 novel, Sleeping in Flame, with new artwork by Dave McKean. What starts as a love story in Vienna takes some fantastical twists. Agent, Richard Parks Agency. .
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Jonathan Carroll, Author Tor Books $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-87823-8
Immensely popular abroad, Carroll (The Marriage of Sticks) has yet to achieve commensurate stature on his native shore. His latest novel combines George Perec's pleasure in puzzles and Philip Dick's interest in metaphysics. Frannie McCabe is the 47-y
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Jonathan Carroll, Author Tor Books $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-87193-2
In the first half of Carroll's new fantasy (after Bones of the Moon), there is little to prepare readers for the surrealism of the second half. Over one hundred pages of aged protagonist Miranda Romanac's memoirs of quotidian high school and yuppie...
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Jonathan Carroll, Author Nan A. Talese $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-48011-6
Sex, death and the high price of fame are the main ingredients in this fast-paced but ultimately disappointing novel from Carroll (Outside the Dog Museum). Sam Bayer is in trouble. His third marriage is dead, his new novel is hopelessly stalled and...
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Jonathan Carroll, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14698-6
Carroll (From the Teeth of Angels) has a high reputation in literary SF and fantasy circles. This collection of 20 pieces of his short fiction suggests that it is well deserved. He has a conspicuous knack for giving new dimensions to venerable...
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Jonathan Carroll, Author Arbor House Publishing $15.95 (217p) ISBN 978-0-87795-937-3
Carroll's first novel, The Land of Laughs, is something of a minor classic, but this one, his third, is, ultimately, a failure. A young woman named Cullen, happily married and the mother of an infant daughter, begins having unusually coherent dreams,
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Jonathan Carroll, Author . Orb $13.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-87312-7
Dreamtime effortlessly intersects with realtime in this reissue of one of British author Carroll's earliest successes, initially published in 1988 and the first of the loosely connected Rondua trilogy (Sleeping in Flame; A Child Across the Sky).
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Jonathan Carroll, Author Doubleday Books $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-41974-1
An electrifying, unforgettable novel that unfolds with the logic of a Greek tragedy, Carroll's parable on moral cowardice starts out as a quirky romance in laid-back southern California but gradually descends into nightmare. Max Fischer, a Los...
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Jonathan Carroll, Author Doubleday Books $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-41973-4
If you didn't know that Lewis Carroll was a pseudonym, you might wonder if this Carroll ( A Child Across the Sky ) might be a relative. He, too, uses fanciful jests to point up common absurdities and makes fantasy seem altogether tangible. Here his...
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Jonathan Carroll, Author Doubleday Books $18.95 (215p) ISBN 978-0-385-26535-5
Just as the the word ``weird'' has many implications and shades of meaning, so too does the latest--weird--work by this gifted and perplexing writer. As Carroll ( Bones of the Moon ; Sleeping in Flame ) himself says, ``Life has a habit of turning...
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Jonathan Carroll, Author Doubleday Books $17.95 (273p) ISBN 978-0-385-24957-7
In this farfetched story of reincarnation among the beautiful people, actor Walker Easterling, living in Vienna with sculptor/ex-model Maris York, stumbles upon traces of his previous lives. In Los Angeles to make a horror flick, Westerling...
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Jonathan Carroll, Author Vintage Books USA $14 (288p) ISBN 978-0-679-72777-4
In this ``farfetched'' story of reincarnation among the beautiful people, an actor stumbles upon traces of his previous lives. ``In what begins as a highly literate parapsychological puzzler, Carroll shifts gears into fantasy and fairy tale, with...
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Jonathan Carroll, Author . Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (308p) ISBN 978-0-374-16186-6
Death is not the end but rather the start of a series of madcap and sometimes moving adventures for characters in this spry novel about the un-afterlife. Events begin on a wintry day in Connecticut when Ben Gould slips and hits his head on a curb....
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Jonathan Carroll, Author . Tor $24.95 (317p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1179-5
An ambitious retelling of the cosmic struggle between good and evil, with a little Judeo-Christian mythology and a smattering of popular culture mythos thrown in, make Carroll's latest a delicious dish—one that's lighter and better...
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Jonathan Carroll, Author . Forge $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0388-2
God is a tile mosaic, chaos is a fat man in a cheap blue suit and death is a learning experience for the deceased in this glib metaphysical fantasy from the author of The Wooden Sea. Vincent Ettrich, a likable rogue and womanizer, is shocked out of...
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Jonathan Carroll, Author, Ray Porter, Read by Blackstone Audiobooks $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4332-4870-2
Bearing a striking resemblance to David Koepp's 2008 Ricky Gervais screen comedy Ghost Town, Carroll's novel features a man who finds himself with an otherworldly companion when he fails to die after hitting his head on a curb. The ghost falls in...
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Jonathan Carroll. Subterranean, $40 (584p) ISBN 978-1-59606-827-8
This weighty compendium from novelist Carroll (Bathing the Lion) collects an eccentric and fascinating assortment of observations, musings, anecdotes, and snatches of story from his internet postings and website. All very short—most no more than a...
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Jonathan Carroll. Melville House, $27.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-61219-992-4
This self-congratulatory contemporary fantasy from Carroll (Bathing the Lion) follows comedian-turned-photographer Graham Patterson as he explores the alternate directions his life could take. While fleeing from his comedy career on a road trip...
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