Stephen Dobyns, Author Viking Books $16.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-82568-4
This sixth in Dobyn's Charlie Bradshaw series (after Saratoga Longshot ), is sure to tickle fans of both poetry and detection. Dobyn's experiences in the world of the working poet (he's published six volumes of poetry and five literary novels) endow
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Stephen Dobyns. Blue Rider, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-57657-7
Senior citizen Charlie Bradshaw, last seen in 1998’s Saratoga Strongbox, knows the last thing he should be doing is nosing around a homicide investigation, having been stripped of his PI license and gun permit largely through lobbying by the...
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Stephen Dobyns. Penguin/Blue Rider, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-17145-1
Gold Dagger Award–finalist Dobyns’s genius for dark comedy makes this intricate crime novel a triumph that will appeal to Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen fans. An arch, omniscient narrative voice draws you in, setting the stage for a grim death in...
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Stephen Dobyns. Penguin/Blue Rider, $26.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-399-16087-5
The latest from the prolific Dobyns (after Eating Naked) is by turns an affectionate portrait of smalltown life, a terrifying supernatural thriller, and a sly horror comedy. Brewster, R.I., is a sleepy burg populated with a cast of lovable...
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Stephen Dobyns, Author Penguin Books $15.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-058916-0
The 10th collection of poems by suspense novelist (Boy in the Water; Forecasts, May 3) and poet Stephen Dobyns (Velocities; Common Carnage) is a modern morality cycle with an Everyman-like figure named Heart at its center. In 61 episodic poems,...
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Stephen Dobyns, Author W. W. Norton & Company $21 (220p) ISBN 978-0-393-03805-7
No, this isn't a racy view of the racing city-simply the name of the horse at the center of Dobyns's lively new entry (following Saratoga Backtalk) in his series about laid-back Saratoga detective Charlie Bradshaw and his impossible sidekick, Vic...
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Stephen Dobyns, Author W. W. Norton & Company $19.95 (221p) ISBN 978-0-393-03659-6
PI Charlie Bradshaw and best friend Victor Plotz solve another mysterious death in New York's upstate horse-racing town of Saratoga Springs. Poet and novelist Dobyns ( Body Traffic ; The Wrestler's Cruel Study ) sends Charlie on jury duty in this,...
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Stephen Dobyns, Author Penguin Books $8.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-14-012155-1
Michael Latchmer, instructed to bury the corpse of a date's pet dog, finds himself on a Dantesque adventure with a Haitian cab driver who claims that he can get money for the dog's body. ``This is a ludicrous, occasionally amusing romp,'' said PW ,...
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Stephen Dobyns, Author Viking Books $18.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-670-83088-6
With one eye on ``the single door through which we all must exit,'' poet and novelist Dobyns ( Cemetery Nights ) addresses the body and its parts in discursive, sometimes exhortatory tones, as in ``Eyelids,'' which ends, ``This is the world to love.
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Stephen Dobyns, Author Penguin Books $4.5 (304p) ISBN 978-0-14-010613-8
``A group of mysteries in one, Saratoga Bestiary builds up smoothly to a truly savage ending.'' In his fifth outing, PI Charlie Bradshaw pays off a ransom, investigates a theft, a murder and the robbery of his friends during a Superbowl party. ``Brad
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Stephen Dobyns, Copper Canyon (Consortium, dist.), $15 (80p) ISBN 978-1-55659-305-8
Dobyns is well known for his mystery novels, and, in poetry circles, for talky, curmudgeonly poems that can be funny, deeply cynical, and heartbreaking at the same time. This 13th volume riffs on current events from the tail-end of George W. Bush's...
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Stephen Dobyns, Author Penguin Books $4.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-011691-5
PI Charlie Bradshaw goes undercover as a poet after noting that bad poems link several incidents--a jewelry heist, a nurse's mysterious death and a critic's terrorization. According to PW , ``The send-ups of the critical and artistic community are...
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Stephen Dobyns, Author Viking Books $19.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-83914-8
With precision and force, poet and novelist Dobyns ( Body Traffic ; A Boat Off the Coast ) depicts the effects on one family of the earthquakes in Chile in 1960. Lucy Recabarren, a divorced, 38-year-old piano teacher living with her daughter in...
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Stephen Dobyns, Author Viking Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-81980-5
Dobyns is an accomplished poet (Cemetery Nights) and a popular mystery writer (Saratoga Longshot), and his new book masterfully combines his gift for cliff-hanging narrative with his dark and meditative sensibility. Specifically, the muse of...
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Stephen Dobyns, Author Penguin Books $14.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-14-058584-1
Line breaks notwithstanding, Dobyns's sixth volume of poetryhe is also author of the praised Saratoga series of detective novelshas the structure of a self-contained collection of prose poems. Not strictly linked, they comprise a mythology of Dobyn's
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Stephen Dobyns, Author Viking Books $16.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-670-82024-5
A group of mysteries in one, Saratoga Bestiary builds up smoothly to a truly savage ending. First, a painting of a famous racehorse is stolen, and private investigator Charlie Bradshaw (in his fifth outing) is hired to deliver the ransom money. The...
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Stephen Dobyns, Author Metropolitan Books $23 (276p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6022-5
While Dobyns has written 20 novels (The Church of Dead Girls) and 10 books of poetry (Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides), this is his first story collection, and he proves himself an adept at the form. In these 16 tales he unveils a landscape of
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Stephen Dobyns, Author Metropolitan Books $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5103-2
In a gripping prologue to this masterful psychological thriller, Dobyns creates an unforgettable scene: in an attic shrine, the bodies of three dead girls are tied to chairs; all have had their left hands cut off. Aurelius, the town in upstate New...
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Stephen Dobyns, Author Penguin Books $15.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-14-058748-7
Questions, often informed with irony and always with wit, dominate Dobyns's ninth book, which matches in forcefulness the best of his earlier collections, including Cemetery Nights and Body Traffic. Accessibly cerebral poems, such as ""Then What Is...
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Stephen Dobyns, Author W. W. Norton & Company $22.95 (426p) ISBN 978-0-393-03511-7
Novelist and poet Dobyns ( After Shocks/Near Escapes ; Body Traffic ) claims further new territory in this rollicking tale that echoes the novels of John Barth, Thomas Pynchon and John Irving. In a comic symphony of voices, razor-etched characters...
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Stephen Dobyns, Author W. W. Norton & Company $13.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-393-31212-6
Dobyns's 15th novel is a philosophical look at a young wrestler's search for his vanished fiancee. (Feb.)
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Stephen Dobyns, Author, Sephen Dobyns, Author Viking Books $21.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-670-87692-1
The versatile and prolific Dobyns's solidly entertaining Charlie Bradshaw mystery series reaches its 10th volume (Saratoga Fleshpot, 1995, etc.) in this amusing and farcical caper. As usual, Vic Plotz, friend of the Saratoga PI and always on the...
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Stephen Dobyns, Author, Howie Michels, Illustrator Penguin Books $18 (176p) ISBN 978-0-14-200244-5
""This one has sex to prove the world exists, that one gets bitten by the dog."" Such disarming aphorisms, along with paragraph-long meditations on death, sex, fame, and memory, make up the first and by far the better half of The Porcupine's ...
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Stephen Dobyns, read by George Newbern. Dreamscape Media, , unabridged, 8 CDs, 9 hrs., $59.99 ISBN 978-1-5200-6707-0
Saratoga Springs sleuth Charlie Bradshaw has been MIF (missing in fiction) since 1998’s Saratoga Strongbox, in which he took a back seat to his colorful wheeler-dealer pal Victor Plotz. Victor and his con man patter are present in the witty 11th...
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