Ben Dolnick, Author . Vintage $12.95 (291p) ISBN 978-0-307-27915-6
The animal residents of the Central Park Children's Zoo are not the only creatures gently scrutinized in Dolnick's charming debut, a light bildungsroman about shoveling goat poop and growing up. Henry Elinsky, helplessly ordinary, has...
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Ben Dolnick, Vintage, $14.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-307-39087-5
Middle child Jacob Vine searches for his place in the world and in his family in Dolnick's wryly comic if unsurprising follow-up to Zoology. Sandwiched between golden child Will and deadly adorable younger sister Cara, Jacob never quite figures out...
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Ben Dolnick. Pantheon, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-307-90798-1
Haunted by a secret from his adolescence that resulted in the end of his relationship with his best friend, Adam Sanecki tries to navigate his adult life by ignoring the past, until it comes roaring back, in Dolnick’s poignant, if at times clichéd,...
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Ben Dolnick. Pantheon, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-101-87109-6
Dolnick’s immersive novel, about how little people know about their loved ones, adds a supernatural element to that topic. Newly engaged, Nick Beron and Hannah Rampe leave Queens for the remote upstate village of Hibernia. Hannah embraces her role...
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