Robert Hellenga, Author . Random $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2533-5
A young man growing up in the Midwest during the '50s comes to terms with the problematic legacy of his first love in Hellenga's heartfelt, provocative third novel. Martin Dijksterhuis is the high school student who is forced to grow up in a
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Robert Hellenga, Author . Little, Brown $23.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-316-05826-1
Riffing off his charming 1994 debut, The Sixteen Pleasures
, Hellenga shifts perspective from father to daughter, detailing the former's postmarital adventures as he plans the latter's wedding. It's been seven years since the death of...
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Robert Hellenga, Author . Little, Brown $23.99 (343p) ISBN 978-0-316-11763-0
Hellenga reprises protagonist Margot Harrington from The Sixteen Pleasures
(1995) in his latest, a romantic comedy about the book-to-film adaptation of Margot's memoir. In the fall of 1990, book restorer and longtime American ex-pat Margot is...
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Robert Hellenga, Bloomsbury, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-60819-262-5
Hellenga (The Sixteen Pleasures) takes on the dramatic lives of Willa Fern Cochrane—who rechristens herself Sunny after being released from prison—and Jackson Jones, an anthropology professor and a friend of Sunny's late uncle Warren. Sunny, who...
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Robert Hellenga. Bloomsbury, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-62040-549-9
In Hellenga’s (The Sixteen Pleasures) latest novel, a Latin scholar on the precipice of old age wistfully recounts her life—beginning in 1963, the year she and her husband “joined our bodies—if not our souls.” Francis Godwin, a lapsed Catholic and...
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Robert Hellenga, Author, Omartian, Author Delta $17 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-31469-5
A young American book conservator's discovery, while in Florence, of a volume of 16 sensual drawings with equally erotic sonnets leads her to a romantic encounter. (June)
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Robert Hellenga, Author, D. L. Smith, Author Warner Books $22 (327p) ISBN 978-1-56947-006-0
Graceful, assured prose, a wry but empathetic view of the human character and an authoritative command of fascinating background detail are among the distinguishing features of this deeply satisfying first novel. Set in Florence after the terrible...
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Robert Hellenga. Delphinium, $26.95 (350p) ISBN 978-1-883285-85-2
Hellenga’s clunky, heavy-handed tale (after The Truth About Death) centers on a rare bookshop in Chicago’s Hyde Park. Gabe Johnson grows up around books in the 1970s, spending his time at the shop owned by his father and grandfather after his mother
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