Barbara Gowdy, Author . Holt/Metropolitan $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7190-0
In her previous novels (The White Bone; Mr. Sandman; etc), Gowdy's imagination blazed new trails, melding bizarre characters into memorable situations. This novel is as beautifully written as its predecessors, but more traditional than the...
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Barbara Gowdy, Author . Dial $24 (307p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8288-3
Love comes up against obsession in Gowdy's seventh novel (following The Romantic
), and the results are at times chilling, but not always believable. Single mother Celia works two jobs and is often forced to bring nine-year-old Rachel along to...
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Barbara Gowdy, Author Steerforth Press $24 (268p) ISBN 978-1-883642-33-4
Count this wickedly funny and moving novel by a Canadian writer the year's sleeper. It's unlikely that anything else will come along that will equal its combination of audacious concept, inspired characterization, frank sexuality, ribald humor and...
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Barbara Gowdy, Author Metropolitan Books $23 (330p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6036-2
Gowdy, the prodigiously talented Canadian author who caused a stir with Mister Sandman and We So Seldom Look on Love, writes with such immediacy and vigor that she can take a reader almost anywhere. In this novel, however, she has chosen to inhabit...
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Barbara Gowdy, Author St. Martin's Press $0 (249p) ISBN 978-0-312-01805-4
Late 18th and early 19th century Ireland, when the Anglo-Irish landlord and the ``big house'' controlled the meanly lived existence of the local peasantry, is the backdrop for a vigorously told tale of betrayal and loss. Through the coming of age of
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Barbara Gowdy, Author Soho Press $18.95 (199p) ISBN 978-0-939149-35-3
Canadian writer Gowdy's ( Through the Green Valley ) second novel offers many satisfactions. Scrupulously and evocatively wrought, with fully formed characters, it poses but does not quite resolve an intriguing mystery rooted in character and fate....
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Barbara Gowdy, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-017031-8
These eight short stories employ both satire and morbid humor to explore the lives of emotionally and physically abnormal characters. Among the protagonists: a pathetically goofy hyperactive child in foster care; Siamese twins equipped with two...
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Barbara Gowdy. Tin House (Norton, dist.), $19.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-941040-60-7
Gowdy’s (The White Bone) new novel weaves an inventive, spellbinding tale of loss, regret, and redemption that takes a heartfelt look at what it means to be a mother, daughter, and sister. Lately, whenever it rains in Toronto, Rose Bowan leaves her...
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Barbara Gowdy, Author, Jane Rosenman, Editor Washington Square Press $7.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-72810-6
After opening on the 1969 funeral of a woman who fell or leaped from a rooftop, this narrative shifts to the 1950s; through her three daughters, we learn that she is an alcoholic who once dropped or threw an infant son over Niagara Falls. ``Scrupulou
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