Neil Jordan, Author Random House (NY) $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-394-57314-4
An unnamed man in an unnamed city beside an unnamed sea becomes increasingly aware of the physical changes being wrought by unbearable heat. The appearance and habits of a whole community are changing. As twisted vines begin to disfigure the walls...
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Neil Jordan, Author Random House Trade $21 (192p) ISBN 978-0-679-44438-1
Admirers still lamenting his loss to filmdom (The Crying Game) will cheer Jordan's (The Dream of a Beast; A Night in Tunisia) return to literary fiction, for Nightlines should propel him into the front ranks of contemporary Irish writers. Grounded...
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Neil Jordan, Author . Bloomsbury $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-58234-482-9
Elegantly sober narration from beyond the grave ("George killed me with his gardening shears.... He held the shears to my neck in the glasshouse, and with quite spectacular clumsiness opened a moonlike gash on my throat") distinguishes this...
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Neil Jordan. Soft Skull (PGW, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-59376-433-3
A case of mistaken identity sets the plot in motion in this meticulous, well-crafted novel from author and filmmaker Jordan (Interview with the Vampire). Kevin is growing up in working class North Dublin when unexplainable things begin to happen:...
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Neil Jordan. Counterpoint/Soft Skull, $15.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-59376-510-1
The out-of-print debut, originally published in 1980, of novelist (Night in Tunisia) and film director (The Crying Game) Jordan is an elegiac remembrance of two larger-than-life Irish women set in the early decades of the last century. In 1914, “medi
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Neil Jordan. Bloomsbury, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-1-63286-446-8
Jordan, writer and filmmaker (The Crying Game), returns to his favorite theme—that of a missing woman—in this curious new novel. Jonathan is a detective who works for a tracing agency. When he is asked to locate Petra, the missing daughter of a...
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Neil Jordan. Pegasus, $26.95 (348p) ISBN 978-1-63936-453-4
Irish film director Jordan (Night in Tunisia) offers a gripping ballad of 18th-century revolutions on both sides of the Atlantic. At its core is the unlikely friendship between two historical figures: Tony Small, an illiterate man born into slavery...
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