Thomas Rayfiel, Author . Ballantine $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-345-45516-1
A young woman grasps at self-knowledge against the backdrop of a seedy New York City in Rayfiel's uneven third novel, a sequel to the author's well-received Colony Girl. Seventeen-year-old Eve left a "tiny religious colony" in Iowa...
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Thomas Rayfiel, Author . Random $13.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-345-45519-2
Continuing the story of Eve (Colony Girl
; Eve in the City
), Rayfiel's fourth novel is a dark, hit-and-miss snapshot of young motherhood. Eve, now 27, is overwhelmed: her unexpected pregnancy resulted in marriage to older doctor Harvey Gabriel...
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Thomas Rayfiel, Author Permanent 26 (158p) ISBN 978-1-57962-201-5
Rayfiel’s solid latest is the tale of the elderly, dying William, Lord Upton. The cantankerous old man is urged by his grandson, Seabold, to write a journal, and though initially resistant, William comes around and begins writing about violent...
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Thomas Rayfiel, Author Simon & Schuster $20 (208p) ISBN 978-0-671-86522-1
Depicting suburbia as a split-level hell, first-novelist Rayfiel offers narrative sound bites that mix crime, coyness and sociological criticism. At about age 30, Allen Stanley returns to the childhood home from which his older sister vanished...
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Thomas Rayfiel, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $23 (279p) ISBN 978-0-374-12644-5
Though she attends a public high school, shows up at parties and lands a highway road-crew summer job, everyone knows 15-year-old Eve is a Colony girl--part of a Christian religious settlement surrounded by cornfields outside Arhat, Iowa. We meet...
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Thomas Rayfiel. Northwestern Univ., $18.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-8101-5236-6
In Rayfiel's latest (Time Among the Dead), an unnamed man sits in a retirement home answering the questions of an unnamed interviewer. We never hear directly from the interviewer but learn that he is someone from the speaker's past. Over the course...
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Thomas Rayfiel. Permanent, $29.95 (228p) ISBN 978-1-57962-534-4
Ethan Harms, the narrator of this intense, claustrophobic novel from Rayfiel (Time Among the Dead), is serving a life sentence for multiple murders in a nameless maximum security prison somewhere in the northern U.S. He leads a cold, cruel existence,
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