Kathryn Davis, Author . Houghton Mifflin $21 (224p) ISBN 978-0-618-22136-3
Davis (Walking Tour) takes liberties with the legend of Marie Antoinette in this novelization of the doomed queen's life, narrated as a series of sketches told mainly from Antoinette's point of view. As Davis imagines it, Antoinette is a...
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Kathryn Davis, Author . Little, Brown $23.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-316-73504-9
Davis stretches relationships over centuries and species in this loopy follow-up to her historical, Versailles
. When three schoolgirls come upon a seemingly dead neighbor, Mr. Banner, prostrate on the beach, he is revived by the uncanny spiritual...
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Kathryn Davis, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-395-94541-4
Davis's fourth and thoroughly engaging novel (after Hell) is a witty blend of genres: mystery, courtroom drama, futuristic tale and a reworking of Welsh myth. In some unspecified year in the 21st century, when ideologies have transformed to the...
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Kathryn Davis, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $17.95 (225p) ISBN 978-0-374-18251-9
With extraordinary imagination and language, Labrador marks the debut of an unusual talent. On the surface a novel about the complex relationship between two sisters, it is also a frequently funny and often confounding tale that leaps from angels to
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Kathryn Davis, Author Anchor Books $7.95 (225p) ISBN 978-0-385-26515-7
``On the surface a novel about the complex relationship between two sisters, this is also a freqently funny and often confounding tale that leaps from angels to demons, and from ordinary life in a New Hampshire household to wild and enigmatic fables
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Kathryn Davis, Author Knopf Publishing Group $23 (399p) ISBN 978-0-679-41425-4
In her second novel, Kafka Prize winner Davis ( Labrador ) examines the rather labyrinthine friendship of two women, Danish composer Helle Ten Brix and 30-ish airport-diner waitress Frances Thorn, whose lives become entangled in upstate New York....
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Kathryn Davis, Author Ecco Press $22 (179p) ISBN 978-0-88001-560-8
""Something has been, is, and always will be wrong in this house, though at first glance you'd never guess."" Stories of several cluttered houses converge in this dense, sensuous novel from Kafka Prize winner Davis (Labrador; The Girl Who Trod on a...
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Kathryn Davis, Author, Shelly Frasier, Narrated by, Shelly Frasier, Read by , read by Shelly Frasier. Tantor $29.95 (7p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0221-1
Davis's unconventional style of writing this novel is not well-suited to the audio format. Chapters are told from many different characters' perspectives, and the narrative jumps around from past to present. Since Frasier does not vary her...
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Kathryn Davis. Graywolf, $24 (208p) ISBN 978-1-55597-653-8
Davis’s previous novels—most recently The Thin Place—blur the lines between magic and the mundane, and in this otherworldly novel those borders are eroded, with oddly mixed results. At first glance, Miss Vicks’s grade-school class seems normal...
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Kathryn Davis. Graywolf, $24 (144p) ISBN 978-1-55597-829-7
Davis’s provocative and offbeat eighth novel (after Duplex) is a haunting take on the fluidity and circuitousness of human life, fragmented through the stories of a group of eight siblings—the Astronomer, the Archivist, the Botanist, the Keeper, the
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Kathryn Davis. Graywolf, $15 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-64445-078-9
Novelist Davis (The Silk Road) conjures real and imagined worlds in this lithe and cerebral exploration of life, death, and the ways both influence craft. When her husband died from cancer in 2019 in his 60s, Davis’s vision of their future went with
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