Stewart O'Nan, Author . Grove/Atlantic $25 (517p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1715-1
O'Nan relies on a patient accumulation of detail instead of a focused dramatic arc to achieve a Vermeer-like realism in his latest novel. His strategy is to record minutely the thoughts and actions of all nine members of the extended Maxwell...
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Stewart O’Nan. Viking, $22 (208p) ISBN 978-0-670-78596-4
Jerusalem under British occupation in the years immediately following World War II serves as the backdrop for O’Nan’s (West of Sunset) intriguing new novel, a Conradian espionage thriller leavened with existential introspection. Its protagonist is...
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Stewart O’Nan. Viking, $27.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-670-78595-7
The last few years of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life, when he lived in Hollywood (the title alludes to Los Angeles’s Sunset Boulevard), are the subject of this earnest but only fitfully interesting novel from O’Nan (Last Night at the Lobster). The book...
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Stewart O’Nan. Viking, $25.95 (180p) ISBN 978-0-670-02316-5
Marion and Art, on the brink of divorce and bankruptcy, head back to Niagara Falls, where they spent their honeymoon decades earlier. This compact novel unfolds over Valentine’s Day weekend, culminating with the couple’s determination to gamble what
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Stewart O'Nan, Author Grove/Atlantic $24 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1681-9
The protean O'Nan seems determined to touch nearly every facet of human experience in a remarkable variety of times and places. In such brilliant novels as Snow Angel and A Prayer for the Dying, he's created distinctive, almost palpable worlds rich...
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Stewart O'Nan, Author Doubleday Books $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-48192-2
Heart-rattling melodrama set against a thriller background hallmarks O'Nan's second novel--just as it did his first, Snow Angels, which won the 1993 Pirates Alley William Faulkner Prize for the Novel. By 1982, Larry Markham, an army medic in Vietnam,
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Stewart O'Nan, Author Doubleday Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-49684-1
On July 6, 1944, the big top of the Ringling Bros. circus caught fire during an afternoon performance in Hartford, Conn., and quickly burned to the ground. One hundred and sixty-seven people were killedDmost of them women and childrenDand hundreds...
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Stewart O'Nan, Author Henry Holt & Company $22 (195p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6147-5
If there were any doubt of his protean gifts on the basis of his four previous, singularly different novels (A World Away, etc.), O'Nan again proves himself a writer of dazzling virtuosity and imagination. This eloquent horror tale/philosophical...
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Stewart O'Nan, Author Henry Holt & Company $23 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5774-4
Granta-listed O'Nan (Snow Angels) fulfills his promise with this affecting and nuanced examination of family alliances tested by infidelity, illness and the pervasive impact of WWII. James Langer, repentant over an affair with one of his high-school
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Stewart O'Nan, Author Penguin Books $11.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-14-026309-1
""Confident, gripping... searing"" wrote PW of O'Nan's second novel, in which a Vietnam vet's struggle to reclaim his family is complicated by a shell-shocked stalker. (Apr.)
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Stewart O'Nan, Author Penguin Books $14 (320p) ISBN 978-0-14-025096-1
First novelist O'Nan links the troubled family life of a teenage boy with the events leading up to the violent death of his beloved former baby-sitter. (Dec.)
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Stewart O'Nan, Author Doubleday Books $20 (305p) ISBN 978-0-385-47574-7
The lives of two small-town Pennsylvania families connected by tragedy are related in this assured and affecting first novel by the author of the short-story collection, In the Walled City. Narrator Arthur Parkinson has been haunted by the murder of
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Stewart O'Nan, Author . Viking $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-02032-4
O'Nan proves that uncertainty can be the worst punishment of all in this unflinching look at an unraveling family. In the small town of Kingsville, Ohio, 18-year-old Kim Larsen—popular and bound for college in the fall—disappears on
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Stewart O'Nan, Author . Viking $19.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-670-01827-7
Set on the last day of business of a Connecticut Red Lobster, this touching novel by the author of Snow Angels
and A Prayer for the Dying
tells the story of Manny DeLeon, a conscientious, committed restaurant manager any national chain would want...
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Stewart O'Nan, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $24 (312p) ISBN 978-0-374-28139-7
Patty Dickerson, the resilient heroine of O'Nan's forceful, oddly moving ninth novel, is pregnant with her first child and waiting for her husband, Tommy, on a snowy night in the mid-1970s, when the phone rings. It's Tommy, and he's...
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Stewart O'Nan, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $23 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-22215-4
More poignant than terrifying, this contemporary ghost story set in suburban Connecticut focuses on the survivors of a car accident that killed three teenagers on Halloween exactly a year before the novel begins. Tim escaped without a scratch, but...
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Stewart O'Nan, Author, Stephen King, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6752-6
Of all the books that will examine the Boston Red Sox's stunning come-from-behind 2004 ALCS win over the Yankees and subsequent World Series victory, none will have this book's warmth, personality or depth. Beginning with an e-mail exchange...
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Stewart O'Nan, Author, Stephen King, Author, Ron McLarty, Read by , read by Adam Grupper and Ron McLarty. Simon & Schuster Audio $49.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-3951-7
"Why do you suck so much?" O'Nan shouts at his TV. Until the 2004 baseball season, this had been the query of many a Boston Red Sox fan. But 2004 was not only the year in which they broke the "Curse of the Bambino," it was also...
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Stewart O'Nan, Author, Stewart C'Nan, Author Doubleday Books $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-48701-6
Drugstore cowboys blaze a murderous trail across the American Southwest--then sell book rights to their story--in Granta honoree O'Nan's slick fourth novel. The subject of a pre-publication controversy, O'Nan's original title was Dear Stephen King (a
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Stewart O'Nan, Author, Giancarlo Esposito, Read by , read by Giancarlo Esposito. Harper Audio $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-694-52441-9
Audio Reviews reflect PW's assessment of the audio adaptation of a book and should be quoted only in reference to the audio version.FICTIONEVERYDAY PEOPLEStewart O'Nan, read by Giancarlo Esposito. Harper Audio, abridged, 6 hrs., four...
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Stewart O’Nan. Viking, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7352-2304-2
O’Nan’s elegiac companion piece to his 2011 novel, Emily, Alone, follows Emily’s husband of 49 years, Henry Maxwell, who, at 75, suffers from variety of physical ailments. The year is 1998 and readers follow Henry and his family from Valentine’s Day
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Stewart O’Nan. Atlantic Monthly, $27 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8021-5927-4
There’s no mystery about what happens in this beautifully rendered and heartbreaking story from O’Nan (West of Sunset). In the opening pages, teenager Angel Oliviera murders another teen, Birdy Alves. O’Nan explores what led up to the killing and...
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