Christian Kiefer. Norton/Liveright, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-87140-883-9
Kiefer, author of The Infinite Tides, returns with a mesmerizing literary thriller about Bill Reed, a lost soul who winds up in a remote corner of Idaho, operating a wildlife sanctuary filled with animals who cannot take care of themselves after...
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Christian Kiefer. Nouvella, $15 (193p) ISBN 978-0-9913141-3-3
Kiefer's latest (after The Animals) ups the ante on the everyday reading experience. Structured as a "kinoroman"—a blend of novella and documentary script—the part-story, part-interview shadows renowned installation artist Frank Poole, who's...
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Christian Kiefer. Bloomsbury, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-60819-810-8
Poet and English professor Kiefer features, in his smart first novel, Capt. Keith Corcoran, “genius” mathematician, engineer, and astronaut working aboard the International Space Station, who discovers during his deployment that his 16-year-old...
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Christian Kiefer. Liveright, $26.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-87140-481-7
Kiefer’s sweeping novel (after One Day Soon Time Will Have No Place to Hide) examines the ways war shapes the lives of ordinary people. Upon returning to Placer County, Calif., after serving in Vietnam, John Frazier is at loose ends: 21 and gripped...
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Christian Kiefer. Melville House, $17.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-68589-081-0
Kiefer’s sublimely crafted latest (after Phantoms) explores the contradictions and struggles of life in a small Ohio town during the Trump administration. Tom and Sarah Bailey have just lost their six-month-old son to a heart condition, a tragedy...
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