Books by Bette Pesetsky and Complete Book Reviews
Bette Pesetsky, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $21.95 (195p) ISBN 978-0-15-116072-3
Raemunde ``Miz Magic'' Howard has passed beyond fortune-telling gigs and birthday party performances to become a highly successful children's TV magician. Perhaps she possesses occult powers? Neither she nor her cousin Carrie really thinks so, but...
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Bette Pesetsky, Author Penguin Books $6.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-14-008318-7
After coming into a sizable inheritance, Walter and Sara Simon leave Manhattan for the country. The house they move into rests over a long-forgotten monument to Atlantis, and Walter begins excavating. The novel swirls, takes sudden and fast leaps,...
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Bette Pesetsky, Author Atheneum Books $17.95 (206p) ISBN 978-0-689-12020-6
Pesetsky is a distinctive voice in American fiction: her characters are always eccentric, just this side of bizarre (as in Digs and Stories from a Savage People ), yet she makes us believe in and care about them. Theodora Waite, the protagonist of...
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Bette Pesetsky, Author Atheneum Books $16.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-689-12021-3
While not all of the 15 linked stories in this collection are equally successful, their cumulative effect is impressive. Pesetsky ( Midnight Sweets ) is an original writer who belongs to no school; though her style is spare and pithy, she is not a...
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Bette Pesetsky, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (261p) ISBN 978-0-06-018302-8
Pesetsky excels in creating offbeat characters with distinctive voices whose behavior is often obsessive if not slightly demented. Bernadette Amy Marrkey,spok the narrator of her latest novel (after Midnight Sweets ), is no exception. A self-styled...
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