Alan Cheuse, Author . Columbia Univ. $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-231-12270-2
NPR listeners know Cheuse as the friendly book commentator who's been a fixture on All Things Considered
for two decades; he is also a well-received fiction writer (The Bohemians; The Grandmothers' Club). Over the years Cheuse has consumed...
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Alan Cheuse, Author . Santa Fe Writers Project $10 (117p) ISBN 978-0-9776799-1-1
In these two novellas, Cheuse (The Grandmothers’ Club
; Lost and Old Rivers
; etc.) dissects the aftermath of two very different deaths: one, of an American businessman traveling in Russia; the other, a mother, jazz pianist and drug addict. In
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Alan Cheuse, Author . Sourcebooks $25.95 (502p) ISBN 978-1-4022-1404-2
Longtime NPR commentator Cheuse returns with his ambitious if not entirely successful ninth book, a novel based on the life of Edward Curtis, the photographer who in 1904 dedicated his life to creating a pictorial record of Native American tribes....
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Alan Cheuse, Author Southern Methodist University Press $10.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87074-340-5
Poignant stories that reveal a middle-class, gritty Southwest. (Nov.)
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Alan Cheuse, Author Southern Methodist University Press $19.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-87074-432-7
NPR commentator, novelist, memoirist and short-story writer Cheuse has an impressive command of many voices. His new collection of 10 short narratives and one semi-autobiographical ""story from memory"" ranges from the disillusionment of an...
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Alan Cheuse, Author Sourcebooks $14.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4022-1516-2
Novelist, essayist, editor and NPR mainstay Cheuse (To Catch the Lightning, Listening to the Page) compiles a highly literate travelogue from material previously published in Gourmet, the Antioch Review and elsewhere. In ""Reading the Archipelago,""
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Alan Cheuse, Author Peregrine Smith Books $18.95 (326p) ISBN 978-0-87905-253-9
This is Minnie Bloch's story, as told in her twilight yearsover coffee in a shopping mall or during supper served in her apartmentto her friends Mrs. Pinsker and Mrs. Stellberg. Mostly it is about Manny, her son Emmanuel, who was a little boy when...
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Alan Cheuse, Author G.M. Smith $18.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-87905-273-7
Cheuse's father, a noted Bolshevik combat pilot, defected from the Soviet Union after his plane crashed and he was given an honorable discharge. Growing up in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, the author saw his immigrant father, Philip, as a fallen hero, a...
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Alan Cheuse, Author Penguin Books $6.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-14-010484-4
In her twilight years, Minnie Bloch tells her life story, mainly about her son son, Manny, a rabbi who became a shipping magnate and eventually suffered a downfall. PW wrote that the tale ""overflows with compassion and a profound sadness.'' (January
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Alan Cheuse, Author Peregrine Smith Books $16.95 (150p) ISBN 978-0-87905-366-6
These sensitive, poignant stories by the author of The Grandmothers' Club reveal a middle-class, down-to-earth, gritty Southwest whose soulful tones seem to issue from ``some country music combo of the cosmos ever mourning the impending divorce...
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Alan Cheuse, Author Peregrine Smith Books $19.95 (325p) ISBN 978-0-87905-363-5
In this fictionalized life of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe, Cheuse ( The Grandmother's Club ) examines the artist's place in the world. As a young girl, Ava Boldin persuades her older brother to let her sketch him in the nude, displaying a...
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Alan Cheuse, Sourcebooks Landmark, $25.99 (528p) ISBN 978-1-4022-4299-1
Cheuse's busy follow-up to To Catch the Lightning reaches frantically in multiple directions but lacks a center of narrative gravity, resulting in a florid and off-kilter tale of slavery and forbidden love. Nathaniel Pereira, son of a New York...
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