Valerie Sayers, Author Doubleday Books $18.95 (325p) ISBN 978-0-385-41085-4
Sayers's gift for delineating family relationships against the microcosm of a small Southern town grows more assured with each novel. This third book to be set in Due East, S.C., focuses on the Irish Catholic Rooney family, outsiders in the...
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Valerie Sayers, Author Doubleday Books $17.95 (299p) ISBN 978-0-385-24376-6
Mary Faith Rapple of Due East is now the mother of four-year-old Jesse, whose imminent arrival she described to her scandalized widower father as ``a virgin birth.'' This sequel is every bit as funny as its predecessor, but while that book focused...
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Valerie Sayers, Author Doubleday Books $15.95 (257p) ISBN 978-0-385-23673-7
This very accomplished first novel, a strong debut for fiction in the Dolphin line, is about a father and daughter both growing up in a small South Carolina town. Mary Faith Rapple, who is 15 and pregnant by a suicidal fellow high school student,...
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Valerie Sayers, Author Berkley Publishing Group $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-425-12165-8
Mary Faith Rapple of Due East is now the mother of four-year-old Jesse, whose imminent arrrival she described to her scandalized widower father as ``a virgin birth.'' This ``begs to be read aloud and shared. Sayers has a voice, and it's one the...
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Valerie Sayers, Author Doubleday Books $20 (520p) ISBN 978-0-385-42425-7
Though she begins her ambitious fourth novel in the town of Due East, S.C., where the previous three (most recently, Who Do You Love? ) were set, Sayers here ventures to new geographical (New Orleans, Brooklyn, Dublin, Washington, D.C.) and...
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Valerie Sayers. TriQuarterly/Northwestern Univ., $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8101-5229-8
Set in the summer of 1941 during Joe DiMaggio’s historic 56-game hitting streak, Sayers’s stylish baseball novel goes behind the scenes and follows Joltin’ Joe’s personally tortuous season, exacerbated by his shrill, pregnant wife and the specter of
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Valerie Sayers, Author, Valarie Sayers, Author Doubleday Books $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-47366-8
Something old and something new mark Sayers's fifth novel (after The Distance Between Us), which will, sadly, leave most readers blue. Here, the director of creative writing at the University of Notre Dame takes leave of Due East, S.C., the setting...
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