Robert Goolrick, Author . Algonquin $22.95 (213p) ISBN 978-1-56512-481-3
Goolrick begins his debut work with a moment he hopes will bring him closure—returning to his Southern home to bury his abusive father. Peeling away the family's carefully constructed facade like the layers of an onion, this brave memoir...
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Robert Goolrick, Author . Algonquin $24.95 (291p) ISBN 978-1-56512-596-4
Set in 1907 Wisconsin, Goolrick's fiction debut (after a memoir, The End of the World as We Know It
) gets off to a slow, stylized start, but eventually generates some real suspense. When Catherine Land, who's survived a traumatic early...
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Robert Goolrick. Algonquin, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-56512-923-8
Goolrick’s tale of doomed love resonates like a folk ballad, with the language of the Blue Ridge Mountains and its people giving this novel its soul. Just after WWII, 39-year-old veteran Charlie Beale arrives in smalltown Brownsburg, Va., hoping for
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Robert Goolrick, read by Norman Dietz. HighBridge Audio, eight CDs, 9.5 hours, $32.95 ISBN 978-1-61174-763-8
In this latest romantic novel from Goolrick, WWII veteran Charlie Beale takes up residence in a tiny Virginia town in an effort to “head out to wonderful” and discover the unexpected. The unexpected occurs in the form of Sylvan Glass, the adolescent
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Robert Goolrick. Algonquin, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-61620-420-4
The unapologetic excesses of America’s hedonistic 1980s are embodied in Goolrick’s (Heading Out to Wonderful) egotistical protagonist, and this new novel is an addictive slice of semiautobiographical fiction. Goolrick’s unnamed hero is a young,...
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Robert Goolrick. Harper, $26.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-267822-5
Goolrick (A Reliable Wife) tells the intriguing and heartbreaking story of American debutante Diana Cooke, whose difficult adult life culminated in her disappearance after her family’s estate, Saratoga, burned to the ground. Diana, a beautiful,...
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