Susan Richards, Author . Soho $22 (248p) ISBN 978-1-56947-419-8
The horse was Lay Me Down, a tall, scrawny, sick (with pneumonia), abused standardbred mare, with a hostile foal at her heels and a wheezing sigh. The human was middle-aged, also abused (both as a child and in a bad marriage), an AA veteran and the...
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Susan Richards, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24.00 (224 pages) ISBN 9780547241722
Designed as a prequel to her memoir, Chosen by a Horse, Richards begins with the adoption of Georgia, the difficult Morgan mare who left such a stamp on the author’s previous heart-warmer, and explores the deep, rehabilitative bond the two have...
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Susan Richards, Other Press, $15.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-59051-348-4
Part travelogue, part contemporary history, Richards's new work explores postcommunist Russia from the point of view of the Russian people directly affected by one of the 20th century's most defining sociopolitical events, the collapse of the U.S.S.R
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Susan Richards, Author Soho Press $23 (278p) ISBN 978-1-56947-492-1
Far better than a book tour chronicle has any right to be, Richards' follow-up to her bestseller Chosen by a Horse again shows her gift for clarity in description, of both her physical surroundings and the landscapes of her heart and mind. The...
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Susan Richards, Author Viking Books $22.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-82743-5
After extended stays in the U.S.S.R. between fall '88 and summer '90, Richards, a British film producer, here presents one of the gloomiest pictures in memory. With an obvious talent for ingratiating herself, she got herself invited to share the...
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Susan Richards, Author Penguin Books $12.5 (384p) ISBN 978-0-14-016929-4
British film producer Richards tiresomely intrudes herself into her otherwise interesting account of extended stays in a gloomy U.S.S.R. between 1988 and 1990. (June)
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