Roland Merullo, Author Henry Holt & Company $23 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6005-8
Suffocating secrets prey upon family love and loyalty in this sympathetically drawn, though ultimately lumbering first volume of a projected Revere Beach Trilogy. Over the course of one week, Merullo (Leaving Losapos) focuses on the Imbesalacqua...
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Roland Merullo. Doubleday, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-54091-9
Drawing from his previous road trip series, Merullo (Breakfast with Buddha) weaves a quirky but uplifting story in which Paolo de Padova, first assistant and cousin to Pope Francis, is asked to whisk away the pope and the visiting Dalai Lama on a...
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Roland Merullo. Algonquin, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56512-928-3
When Otto Ringling embarked on a road trip eight years ago with his Russian monk brother-in-law, Volya Rinpoche, in Breakfast with Buddha, he exposed the spiritual master to the messy intricacies of American society and, in turn, was taught the...
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Roland Merullo. Crown, $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-45295-5
Merullo’s (Breakfast with Buddha) latest is a page-turning novel of religious ideas written with love and imagination. Cynthia Piantedosi is a devout young Catholic woman studying to be a nurse. From her childhood she has had “spells”—times of...
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Roland Merullo. Crown, $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-307-45292-4
Merullo's (Breakfast with Buddha) coming-of-age story is told from afar by Marjorie Richards, now a married mother of two, but 20-some years ago a poor girl with an awkward dialect stuck in rural New Hampshire with abusive parents. On the eve of her
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Roland Merullo, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $23.95 (323p) ISBN 978-1-56512-552-0
Merullo, author of the Revere Beach series and ""Golfing with God"", delivers a comic but winningly spiritual road-trip novel. Otto Ringling is a food-book editor and a happily married father of two living in a tony New York suburb. After Ottos...
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Roland Merullo, Author Lyons Press $20 (176p) ISBN 978-1-58574-162-5
For ""average hackers"" who struggle weekly to lower their scores, this slender, accessible guide offers insight into the emotional stumbling blocks that get in the way of improvement and, most importantly, enjoyment of the game. Merullo is not a...
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Roland Merullo, Author Little Brown and Company $22.95 (356p) ISBN 978-0-316-56789-3
Against the backdrop of the failed August 1991 putsch that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union and to the ascendency of Boris Yeltsin's Russian Republic, Merullo skillfully explores the lives of ordinary people caught in a dramatic transference...
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Roland Merullo, Author Avon Books $10 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71750-7
Merullo's beautifully realized first novel focuses on an ex-Marine, tortured by his memories of Vietnam, who must choose between his adopted Micronesian island home of Losapas and the Boston suburb where he grew up. (Oct.)
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Roland Merullo, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (291p) ISBN 978-0-395-53377-2
Leo Markin, the protagonist of Merullo's beautifully realized first novel, is an ex-Marine tortured by his memories of the war in Vietnam. This conflict shook his faith in Catholicism and his trust in the military--which had been another kind of...
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Roland Merullo, Author . Beacon $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8070-7244-8
Through a series of loosely connected essays, Merullo (Revere Beach Boulevard) leads readers from his boyhood to the present day in a memoir of the spirit. It is also a memoir of discovery: on scholarship at the elite Exeter Academy, Merullo...
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Roland Merullo, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $23.95 (277p) ISBN 978-1-56512-501-8
Merullo (Passion for Golf ) blends knowledge of the game with glimpses into his spiritual journey in this engaging story of golf, the after-life and ""the spiritual education of one soul."" Former golf professional Herman Fins-Winston has been...
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Roland Merullo, Author . Touchstone $24.99 (259p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6353-2
In the summer of 2007, novelist and golf fanatic Merullo (Golfing with God
; Revere Beach Elegy
) set off with his family in search of the slower ways of life on the shores of Lake Como, Italy. Interspersing descriptions of various rounds of golf...
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Roland Merullo, Author . Crown/Shaye Areheart $23 (268p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4868-7
After two light comedies with spiritual overtones, American Savior
(2008) and Breakfast with Buddha
(2007), Merullo mines far darker material to construct a powerful tale of modern-day, devastated Cuba and its all but indestructible dictator,...
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Roland Merullo, Author . Algonquin $24.95 (312p) ISBN 978-1-56512-607-7
When Jesus Christ turns up in West Zenith, Mass., Catholics, Jews and atheists unite to help him realize his plan of becoming America's next president in this hilarious novel from Merullo (Breakfast with Buddha
). Chief adviser to the “Jes
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Roland Merullo, Author . Shaye Areheart $23 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4867-0
Merullo, author of the Revere Beach series, starts out with a hoary cliché: Jake Entwhistle, on the one-year anniversary of his girlfriend's death, goes out for a doughnut, and his '49 Dodge truck gets smashed in the parking lot by...
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Roland Merullo, Author . Random/Areheart $22 (320p) ISBN 978-0-609-61032-9
When 11-year-old Anthony Benedetto's parents die in an airplane crash, he is saved by the loving presence of his extended Italian family in this gracefully written coming-of-age novel. Set in the 1960s and moving from Anthony's parents'...
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