Books by Peter Gadol and Complete Book Reviews
Peter Gadol, Author . Bleak House $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60648-044-1
The peaceful home life of two L.A. architects is brutally disrupted after they find their overnight guest, eccentric artist Tom Field, hanging from their neighbor’s tree in Gadol’s sad, chilling sixth novel. Is it suicide, murder or a...
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Peter Gadol, Author Picador USA $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-20336-8
The City of Light becomes the city of lost children in Gadol's (The Long Rain) intricate tapestry of jealousy and self-discovery. It's some time in the future, and in Paris, bombs explode in the M tro and children of immigrants are kidnapped by...
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Peter Gadol, Author Crown Publishers $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-57549-9
First novelist Gadol sets his fantastical romantic adventure in a southwestern desert--quickly establishing a labored metaphor for the difficulty of making love flourish and grow. His young hero and narrator, orphaned Coyote Gato, guides pilgrims to
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Peter Gadol, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY) $20 (306p) ISBN 978-0-517-57656-4
During a visit to New York's most prestigious museum, Eric Auden slips into a wing under renovation and impulsively pockets an ancient idol of the Goddess of Desire. As the city speculates about the bold thief's identity, Eric begins a new life...
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Peter Gadol, Author Picador USA $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14084-7
Neither powerful extremes of nature nor profound personal tragedies can quash the innate human urge to build and rebuild in this resonant tale of three troubled friends starting over in a fire-scarred Southern California canyon. Narrator Brad Gray...
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Peter Gadol, Author Picador USA $13 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-15176-8
This novel of a West Village cafe, which begins with the theft, by an estranged husband, of a marble statue, is ""a brew of exotic strains whose strengths and nuances connoisseurs will enjoy tasting for themselves,"" PW wrote in a starred review. (Ja
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Peter Gadol, Author Picador USA $23 (298p) ISBN 978-0-312-15571-1
""Tending a modest crop, reaping its fruit--these are the quiet chores to which we can retreat and devote ourselves when we have... become the agents of tragedy and despair."" That's the quiet hope that illuminates this bucolic, milder-mannered...
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Peter Gadol. Hanover Square, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-335-94391-0
In this engrossing novel from Gadol (Silver Lake), Rebecca is enticed by boyfriend Ezra into the stranger game, a rapidly spreading phenomenon in which players follow random strangers but with no actual contact. After Ezra disappears while possibly...
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