Marisa Silver, Author . Norton $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-393-02003-8
Silver sets her oblique, atmospheric tales against the backdrop of a sprawling Los Angeles in this uneven but promising first short story collection. Many of the nine stories are equipped with painfully real characters and strikingly inventive...
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Marisa Silver, Author . Norton $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-05823-9
Inhabiting the uncomfortable space between loss and self-discovery, this debut novel by Silver (after the story collection Babe in Paradise
) tells of missing fathers and the women and children they leave behind. Caroline, whose astronomer husband
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Marisa Silver, Author . Simon & Schuster $23 (271p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6316-7
An elegantly observed coming-of-age story steeped in poverty and violence, this novel by the author of No Direction Home
offers a poignant and often heartbreaking account of Ares Ramirez. The year is 1978, and 12-year-old Ares has outgrown the...
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Marisa Silver, Author . Simon & Schuster $22 (164p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9029-3
Unwellness is woven through these eight beautiful and brutal stories from Silver (The God of War
), who gives readers finely wrought slivers of lives scarred by sickness and the intermingling of hope and despair. The characters in the first two...
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Marisa Silver. Penguin/Blue Rider, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-16070-7
Three characters whose lives span 90 years form the core of Silver's gorgeous third novel (after The God of War). Social historian Walker Dodge, as he sorts through the last items of his nearly empty childhood home, discovers a familial link to a...
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Marisa Silver. Blue Rider, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-16792-8
Silver’s (Mary Coin) latest novel reads like a fairy tale, following two characters in a time and place that may be a century ago, and may be Europe. Pavla is born a dwarf with a lovely face. Danilo is a tinkerer indentured to a charlatan, Dr....
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Marisa Silver. Bloomsbury, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-1-63557-644-3
Two seven-year-old girls see their friendship ripped apart on one horrifying summer day in Silver’s thoughtful latest (after Little Nothing). Miggy Brenneman is the only child of ballet teacher Jean and jazz-loving Julian, who has taken over his...
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Marisa Silver, Author, Scott Brick, Read by , read by Scott Brick. Blackstone Audio $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4332-1227-7
Scott Brick lends his talent to Silver's multilayered coming-of-age novel. The story unfolds from the point-of-view of 12-year-old Ares Ramirez and his hardscrabble '70s childhood in a remote Southern California desert community, and much...
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