Brad Kessler, Author . Scribner $24 (241p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8738-8
This brooding novel is a modern-day retelling of the Greek myth of Ceyx and Alcyone. In the eerie first chapter, Russell, a New York ornithologist, is on a flight to Amsterdam when the airplane plunges into the Atlantic near Nova Scotia. The victims&
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Brad Kessler, Author Scribner $24 (239p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6099-9
Novelist (Birds in Fall
; Lick Creek
) Kessler’s account of tending a small herd of milking goats in Vermont captures both the lush, poetic paradise of rural life and the raw, unrelenting drama of dairying. Kessler, a Saab-driving ex-Manhattani
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Brad Kessler, Author Scribner Book Company $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7432-0160-5
This dramatic first novel by a magazine journalist and seasoned author of children's books is set in the 1920s in the mining country of West Virginia, where Emily Jenkins, a fiery tomboy in her late teens, lives with her family on a small farm. One...
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Brad Kessler. Overlook, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4197-5042-7
Kessler’s accomplished third novel (after the memoir Goat Song) traces the lives of three people who converge during a Vermont blizzard. Blue Mountain Monastery monk Christopher Gathreaux prays an unseasonable May snowstorm won’t destroy his apple...
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