Richard Dooling, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-050539-4
Dooling, who was an NBA finalist for his White Man's Grave
a few years back, never writes the same kind of book twice, and this time he's produced a sort of techno-noir thriller set within the confines of the insurance business. The reader...
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Richard Dooling, Author . Harmony $22 (260p) ISBN 978-0-307-40525-8
Novelist and screenwriter Dooling (White Man’s Grave
) contemplates the “Era of Singularity,” the coming day when computers will be able to outthink humans, in this uneven take on the future of machine intelligence. Dooling is at...
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Richard Dooling, Author Picador USA $15 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-14304-6
Dooling's 1992 debut novel features a young doctor ensnared in a legal battle over the fate of a comatose man. (July)
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Richard Dooling, Author Picador USA $15 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-13214-9
Dooling's novel about a Peace Corps volunteer missing in Africa and the two men-his naive friend and his boastful father-who try to use American influence to find him was a 1994 National Book Award finalist. (May)
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Richard Dooling, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (248p) ISBN 978-0-688-10926-4
The often macabre world of high-tech dying seems all too real in this provocative, sardonic first novel about an intensive care unit where terminally ill patients hooked up to machines are kept alive in impersonal surroundings at frightful expense,...
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Richard Dooling, Author Avon Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71759-0
The often macabre world of high-tech dying seems all too real in this provocative, sardonic first novel about an intensive care unit for the terminally ill. (July)
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Richard Dooling, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $22 (386p) ISBN 978-0-374-28951-5
This is a galloping tale about a clash of worldviews, in this case between the insular West African Mende culture--complete with tribal politics and voodoo--and the pure red-blooded Caucasian American variety, with its highly rational citizens bent...
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Richard Dooling, Author Random House (NY) $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-44471-8
In his novel White Man's Grave, Dooling showed he could write hilariously about the absurdities of law. Here, unfortunately, his armchair musings on law and folkways meander between entertaining and dyspeptic. ""[I]n response to gender politics, the
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Richard Dooling, Author Random House (NY) $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-679-45239-3
When white supremacist James Whitlow shoots his wife's lover, a deaf African American sign language teacher, he finds himself a prime candidate for the application of new hate-crime statutes. But is he guilty of a hate crime? Enter his court-appointe
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