Sam Savage, Author , illus. by Michael Mikolowski. Coffee House $14.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-56689-231-5
Middle-aged underachiever Andy Whittaker plots a preposterous literary festival in this scathingly funny epistolary pastiche from Firmin
author Savage. Andy is the editor of Soap
, an inconsequential literary magazine ridiculed by rival The Art...
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Sam Savage. Coffee House (Consortium, dist.), $15 trade paper (210p) ISBN 978-1-56689-273
Like a milder Good Morning, Midnight, Savage's new novel (after The Cry of the Sloth) is driven by the dithering narration of a woman adrift in the world. In this case, however, the compulsive recollections and endless qualifications of Edna, a...
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Sam Savage. Coffee House (Consortium, dist.), $15 trade paper (152p) ISBN 978-1-56689-312-1
This compact, ruminative novel-of-the-artist by Savage (Firmin) concerns a broken-down American elderly “minor” painter, frustrated author of two pamphlets, and frivolous art patron and collector. The gimp with a cane, Harold Nivenson, owns a three-s
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Sam Savage. Coffee House (Consortium, dist.), $12.95 trade paper (150p) ISBN 978-1-56689-372-5
In this slim, impressionistic tale of a South Carolinian family in decline, Savage (The Way of the Dog) again displays his distinctive, and late-blooming, voice. (His first novel, Firmin, about a bookstore-dwelling rat, was published when he was in...
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Sam Savage, Author, Michael Mikolowski, Illustrator , illus. by Michael Mikolowski. Coffee House $14.95 (151p) ISBN 978-1-56689-181-3
Savage's sentimental debut concerns the coming-of-age of a well-read rat in 1960s Boston. In the basement of Pembroke Books, a bookstore on Scollay Square, Firmin is the runt of the litter born to Mama Flo, who makes confetti of Moby-Dick
and...
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Sam Savage. Coffee House, $16.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-56689-530-9
In “My Writing Life: A Confession in Fable,” one of this collection’s 18 quirkily surreal stories, Savage (It Will End with Us) refers to the ideas that he transcribes into fiction as “the noises within, the whistling and muttering.” They produce...
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