Christine Bell, Author Washington Square Press $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-63847-4
Rubia (nee Susan), a transplanted New Yorker whose marriage to Frederico has condemned her to 15 years on an isolated South American hacienda, learns that while she has been tending his sick mother, Frederico has been having an affair. ""Passion,...
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Christine Bell, Author Pineapple Press $14.95 (236p) ISBN 978-0-910923-21-7
The heroine of this irreverent first novel is Rubia (nee Susan), a transplanted New Yorker whose marriage to Frederico has condemned her to 15 years on an isolated South American hacienda with his Spanish family. When she discovers that he's been...
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Christine Bell, Author W. W. Norton & Company $19.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-02798-3
After 20 years in Cuban prisons, Juan Raul Perez is hauled from his cell without any explanation. Is he facing his own execution? But a fate stranger than death awaits him: he is shipped off to Miami. Instead of being reunited with his wife and...
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Christine Bell, Author Harper Perennial $11 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-097401-5
Juan Raul Perez is inexplicably removed from a Cuban prison, sent to Miami and mistakenly paired with an enterprising, sexy woman who shares his last name. ``Bell sustains her feverish plot with wit and verve,'' said PW . ``Her humor and dexterity...
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Christine Bell, Author W. W. Norton & Company $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-03945-0
Bell's first collection of short fiction (after the novels Saint and The Perez Family) aims for the unsure and troubled core of contemporary life but doesn't always hit the mark. The first few stories are talky and undefined, lacking in vivid scenes,
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Christine Bell. Lake Union, $14.95 trade paper (314p) ISBN 978-1-4778-4848-7
Lily Declan, the heroine of this touching novel set in Nashville from Bell (Saint), is still deep in mourning more than a year after her singer husband, Desmond, died of cancer, though she does her best to maintain a positive face in front of her...
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