Clare Boylan, Author . Counterpoint $16 (416p) ISBN 978-1-58243-261-8
Irish writer Boylan is better known as a novelist (Beloved Stranger, etc.), but this collection of 38 short stories is a pleasing showcase for her quirky plotting and deceptively simple, smooth prose style. The shorter stories are more effective,...
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Clare Boylan, Author Summit Books $16.45 (248p) ISBN 978-0-671-54998-5
Harriet is an affection-starved English woman who has raised her three childrennow teenagersalone. When she learned years before that her ex-husband took his new family to Greece on holiday, she pinched pennies even more determinedly in order to...
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Clare Boylan, Author Doubleday Books $18.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-385-26101-2
Irish writer Boylan ( Holy Pictures ; Last Resorts ) opens her fourth novel with a biblical epigraph: ``Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares,'' and the theme reverberates throughout this engaging
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Clare Boylan, Author Nan A. Talese $20 (279p) ISBN 978-0-385-26176-0
Boylan's moving ``prequel'' to Holy Pictures portrays a poor family's life in 1890s Dublin as animated and colorful yet at the same time bleak and full of suffering. The eighth of 10 children, Daisy Devlin struggles for recognition in the midst of...
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Clare Boylan, Author Counterpoint LLC $24 (320p) ISBN 978-1-58243-096-6
This rich, compelling novel is a domestic tragicomedy in which the details are as crucial as in a mystery story. During 50 years of married life in the same Dublin neighborhood, Dick Butler has provided for his wife, Lily. Despite Dick's occasional...
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Clare Boylan, Author, Charlotte Bronte, Author . Viking $25.95 (435p) ISBN 978-0-670-03297-6
When Charlotte Brontë died in 1855, she left behind a 20-page manuscript, which Irish novelist Boylan (Holy Pictures
, etc.) uses as the first two chapters of her own sprawling novel. The result is a deeply satisfying Victorian mystery, at once
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