Kathleen Alcala, Author, Charles Simmons, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $22.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-8118-1916-9
Starting where her Spirits of the Ordinary ended, near the time of the Mexican Revolution, the disappointing second volume of Alcal 's projected trilogy chronicles three generations of women descended from the Opata, a vanished Indian tribe from the
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Charles Simmons, Author Penguin Books $6.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-14-011085-2
``A publishing insider's delight,'' exclaimed PW , of this novel by former New York Times Book Review editor Simmons, who ``writes with great economy and wit,'' describing the workings of the quintessential book review journal Belles Lettres. (August
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Charles Simmons, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $19.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8118-2182-7
Simmons, a former editor at the New York Times Book Review, made his name as a writer with a series of surreal comic novels, including Powdered Eggs and Wrinkles, but the present book, a coming-of-age novella, is a complete change of pace. Written...
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