Katharine Weber, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $22 (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-18959-4
Swaddling her contemporary retread of the Louisa May Alcott classic in layers of self-referential debate about novel writing, Weber (The Music Lesson, etc.) squeezes the life out of this tale of three runaway sisters. Meg, Joanna and Amy Green (a...
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Katharine Weber, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $23 (242p) ISBN 978-0-374-28142-7
The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire killed 146 workers, most of them women, and galvanized efforts to reform working conditions in sweatshops. In Esther Gottesfeld, the last remaining survivor of the Triangle fire, Weber (The Little Women
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Katharine Weber, Author . Crown/Shaye Areheart $22 (274p) ISBN 978-0-307-39586-3
In this winning, offbeat tale, Weber unfurls Alice Tatnall’s insecure Unitarian adolescence, which leads to her approval-seeking adulthood as the wife of candy heir Howard “Howdy” Ziplinsky. Alice has felt ostracized by family and...
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Katharine Weber, Author Picador USA $13 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-14383-1
Weber's first novel shifts between past and present as a young photographer tries to rescue her best friend from a destructive affair. (June)
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Katharine Weber, Author Crown Publishers $21 (192p) ISBN 978-0-609-60317-8
After her very promising debut with Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (1995), Weber offers a complete, but equally delightful, change of pace in this emotionally involving thriller that is propelled by psychological intensity. New York...
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Katharine Weber, Author Crown Publishers $23 (262p) ISBN 978-0-517-59890-0
Tender and funny and sometimes jolting, this is a first novel of remarkable accomplishment. It tells of a young, thoughtful photographer, Harriet Rose, her newfound love for a young artist and a few surreal weeks in her life when she goes to Geneva...
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Katharine Weber. Crown, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-307-39588-7
Novelist Weber (Triangle) here paints a wry and engaging portrait of a powerful, talented, but troubled family. She relays memories of her father, Sidney Kaufman, a self-mythologizing filmmaker, and Andrea Swift, her self-absorbed mother, who...
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Katharine Weber. Paul Dry, $16.95 trade paper (287p) ISBN 978-1-58988-129-7
Weber’s brilliant novel (following The Memory of All That) follows married couple Duncan and Laura Wheeler as their lives are altered after a car accident—with Duncan at the wheel—leaves him a paraplegic and results in the death of his architect...
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Katharine Weber. Paul Dry, $16.95 trade paper (202p) ISBN 978-1-58988-159-4
Weber (Still Life with Monkey) delivers an insightful collection that finds characters in moments of transition as they act on their impulses. “Mr. Antler’s Princess Dust” chronicles the summer romps of fourth-grader Barbara Antler and friend...
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