Books by Kay Boyle and Complete Book Reviews
Kay Boyle, Author Copper Canyon Press $10 (192p) ISBN 978-1-55659-039-9
Showcasing a poetic career spanning 65 years, this fine volume demonstrates the strength of Boyle's ( This Is Not a Letter and Other Poems ) commitment to a political aesthetic, one that combines a wealth of nuanced knowledge with a genuine liberal...
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Kay Boyle, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $24.95 (644p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1206-9
The most complete collection of short stories by the octogenarian author and activist. (June)
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Kay Boyle, Author Copper Canyon Press $19 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55659-038-2
Showcasing a poetic career spanning 65 years, this fine volume demonstrates the strength of Boyle's ( This Is Not a Letter and Other Poems ) commitment to a political aesthetic, one that combines a wealth of nuanced knowledge with a genuine liberal...
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Kay Boyle, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $10.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1149-9
This collection, now being reissued, showcases Boyle's morally probing, emotionally charged writing. In each of the works, a conflict that has been bubbling under reality's seemingly calm surface emerges with the introduction of a visitor or...
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Kay Boyle, Author, Burton Hatlen, Introduction by New Directions Publishing Corporation $21 (338p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1089-8
Boyle's memorable novel, first published in 1936 and long out of print, and set in the Austrian town of Feldbruck from February to July of 1934, is at once a love story and a chilling political drama. Romance blooms between Prochaska, the resident...
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Kay Boyle, Author Sun and Moon Press $9.95 (66p) ISBN 978-0-940650-61-9
At first glance, Boyle's latest verse collection is a sequence of poems written to, or in honor of, various friends, among them Samuel Beckett and James Joyce, whom she knew as an expatriate novelist in Europe. But the real connecting thread is the...
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Kay Boyle, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $18.95 (140p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1052-2
This book includes 13 of the prolific Boyle's earliest stories, written when she was an American expatriate in Europe during the 1920s and '30s but long out of print. Beginning with the haunting title story, Boyle draws the reader into her...
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