Rebecca Brown, Author . City Lights $12.95 (97p) ISBN 978-0-87286-447-4
Brown's imaginative, fierce collection of 12 stories (her 10th book, after The End of Youth
) evokes the painful detritus of lesbian love affairs long over and the trickiness of memory. Heartbreak and guilt fragment narrative and remembrance in...
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Rebecca Brown, Author City Lights Books $11.95 (136p) ISBN 978-0-87286-266-1
Brown's ( The Children's Crusade ) collection of short stories is not for the light-hearted or optimistic. Throughout she traces unfulfilled lesbians in unsuccessful relationships, bearing burdens of pain that cannot be purged even by self-mutilation
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Rebecca Brown, Author City Lights Books $10.95 (166p) ISBN 978-0-87286-344-6
Brown (Annie Oakley's Girl) never contents herself, or reassures her readers, by resorting to realist conventions. In her latest effort, a snarling attack on the fairy-tale form, a good girl's fears of inadequacy materialize as a pack of vicious...
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Rebecca Brown, Author Viking Books $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-80985-1
In one stifling moment near the beginning of this strong, evocative first novel, its genesis is laid bare: little Robin Dale's father slides her into a pool, steps away and, moving backward, hands outstretched, says, ""Try to reach me.'' Robin...
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Rebecca Brown, Author Seal Press (CA) $8.95 (196p) ISBN 978-0-931188-88-6
In what PW cited as a ``strong, evocative first novel,'' Robin Dale grows up with distant, unreachable parents. Later, she settles down with her lover, Carrie, but bizarre events occur in the house that they are restoring. (Mar.)
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Rebecca Brown, Author Seal Press (CA) $8.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-878067-04-3
Childhood is a nasty business, according to this overwrought, forgettable novel by the author of The Haunted House. In an early scene, the young, unnamed protagonist accompanies her father on a duck hunt; she is traumatized when she follows her...
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Rebecca Brown, Author HarperCollins Publishers $17.5 (165p) ISBN 978-0-06-017159-9
The unnamed narrator of this beautifully controlled, immensely affecting novel, is a home care aid who helps those afflicted with AIDS. In a series of brief chapters written in casually vernacular language, Brown depicts this woman's visits to a...
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Rebecca Brown, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (170p) ISBN 978-0-06-017440-8
If Samuel Beckett were a woman in late- 20th century America, he might have written stories like Brown's. None of Brown's characters--except the most peripheral--have names, and the author's use of pronouns and simple, declarative sentences gives...
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