Scott Spencer, Author . HarperCollins/Ecco $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-018534-3
Spencer's latest novel should cement his reputation as the contemporary American master of the love story. Daniel Emerson is a New York City lawyer who has returned to his hometown of Leyden, N.Y., a picturesque Hudson Valley village, with his...
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Scott Spencer, Author . Ecco $24.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-06-076015-1
In Spencer's (Endless Love
) witty and perceptive latest, struggling New York writer Avery Jankowsky has a midlife crisis at 37. Weary of his hand-to-mouth existence and obsessed with never being able to afford to buy an apartment, Avery's
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Scott Spencer, Ecco, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-146655-7
Spencer, a deft explorer of obsessive love and violence, confronts the consequences of doing wrong for all the right reasons in his exquisite latest. Paul Phillips, a master carpenter, is living in bucolic upstate New York with Kate Ellis, the woman
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Scott Spencer, Author Harmony $10.95 (26p) ISBN 978-0-517-56451-6
Phoebe's parents are busy, serious sorts; they have little time for her, especially when they work in their secret laboratory at night. An accident there shrinks them to doll-size figures, a condition that Phoebe realizes can be reversed only with...
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Scott Spencer, Author Alfred A. Knopf $19.95 (257p) ISBN 978-0-394-57817-0
Taking its title from Longfellow (``the secret anniversaries of the heart'') Spencer's ( Endless Love ) new novel is an ambitious attempt to record a young woman's emotional, intellectual and moral awakening through vignettes illuminating her...
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Scott Spencer, Author Alfred A. Knopf $23 (321p) ISBN 978-0-679-43452-8
Family politics, marital discord, personal integrity, extraterrestrials, the publishing game and the vagaries of the American public find wise and witty treatment in this perceptive, highly readable novel from the author of Endless Love and Waking...
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Scott Spencer, Author Knopf Publishing Group $23 (272p) ISBN 978-0-375-40056-8
Spencer (Endless Love; Men in Black) has imagined a quintessential 1960s folk-rock superstar, Luke Fairchild, who seems to be a cross between Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen but has a following greater than either, and scrutinizes him both as...
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Chase Novak. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-19856-1
Advanced reproductive technologies prove just a new form of mad science in this timely, engrossing medical thriller from the pseudonymous Novak (Scott Spencer, Endless Love). Wealthy Manhattan couple Alex and Leslie Twisden are incapable of having...
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Scott Spencer. Ecco, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-266005-3
Spencer (Endless Love) traces the lives of two couples through snapshots of parties throughout their marriages that turn equally painful and profound. Aspiring artists Grace and Thaddeus—a writer and painter, respectively—move to New York City from...
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Scott Spencer. Ecco, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-285162-8
Spencer returns to the characters from River Under the Road in this unsatisfying sequel about unrequited love and betrayal. Kip Woods, a supporting character in River, provides a first-person confession as he awaits sentencing for a criminal...
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