Richard Lewis, Author, Richard Lewis, Read by , read by the author. Phoenix Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59777-210-5
This stunning autobiography by comedian Lewis is an intriguing account of his dysfunctional career and addictive personality, focusing particularly on his drug and alcohol problems. Lewis narrates with the same unsentimental, straightforward, and...
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Lewis (In a Spring Garden) asks readers to contemplate the world as a series of spaces filled with imagery, to consider the sky as "a field for the sun" and "a sea for the moon" and the earth as "hills bending, waters gathering,...
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Richard Lewis, Author, George Hirose, Photographer, Martin Moskof, Designed by Touchstone Center Publications $14 (56p) ISBN 978-1-929299-03-4
A quartet of titles examines art in its many incarnations. Cave: An Evocation of the Beginnings of Art by Richard Lewis brings together sculpture and text to visualize the origins of art. Elizabeth Crawford's sculptures appear in haunting, full-bl
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Richard Lewis, Author . Simon & Schuster $15.99 (279p) ISBN 978-1-4169-3591-9
Lewis (The Demon Queen
) throws cheerleading, higher mathematics, alternate dimensions, angels, demons and government agents into this satisfying and fun story. Ten-year-old Darby, a math prodigy, brings the other-dimensional Alpha Omega Function,...
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Richard Lewis, Author Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $17.99 (183p) ISBN 978-1-4169-1165-4
Lewis (The Flame Tree) sets this rambling novel in northern Indonesia's Aceh, the first area hit by the 2004 tsunami. As the novel opens, 16-year-old Ruslan meets the Bedfords, an American family, when the engine on their sailboat breaks down and...
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Richard Lewis, Author . S&S $16.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-689-86333-2
The graphic depiction of terrorist acts (such as beheadings) may be too intense for some readers, but Lewis poses some provocative questions about faith and fervor in this gritty first novel set in Indonesia around the time of September 11. The...
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Richard Lewis, Author, Andrew Lewis, Author, Ed Young, Illustrator Atheneum Books $13.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-689-31596-1
According to an Aztec myth, when Earth and Sky are created, Earth cannot hear the music of the wind, stars and sun. Sky helps the wind steal the musicians of the sun and carry them to Earth where ``silence is opened.'' For a young reader, the story...
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Richard Lewis, Author, Andrew Lewis, Author, Ed Young, Illustrator Atheneum Books $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-31310-3
This poem is an abridgment of The Kumulipo, the Hawaiian creation chant. It begins with the ""darkness of the night, nothing but night,'' and follows the creation of the world to man and the dawn of the first day. Lewis's adaptation of this tale has
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Richard Lewis, Author PublicAffairs $23 (288p) ISBN 978-1-891620-93-5
Fans of Lewis's bleak shtick are the natural audience for these searing, confessional riffs on the comic's angst, acute alcoholism and relentless sexual conquests, but it's hard to imagine that the uninitiated would enjoy the musings of ""a bad-postu
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