Cornelia Nixon, Author . Counterpoint $15.95 (340p) ISBN 978-1-58243-512-1
Post–Civil War tensions complicate the romance between an abolitionist's son and the spirited sister of a rebel sympathizer in Nixon's uneven latest (after Angels Go Naked
). Four years after the war, in Jarrettsville, Md., Martha...
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Cornelia Nixon, Author Counterpoint LLC $32 (304p) ISBN 978-1-58243-062-1
Although subtitled ""a novel,"" Nixon's (Now You See It) delicately constructed new book is really a collection of 11 related short stories. Skillfully interwoven, they tell of violinist Margy Rose, from her adolescence in Boston through her stormy...
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Cornelia Nixon, Author Little Brown and Company $17.45 (186p) ISBN 978-0-316-61170-1
This thoughtful and elegant group of interconnected stories depicts one family over two decades, as seen through the eyes of several of its members and one outsider. We first meet the Hoopers in 1949, on their way to Berkeley where Edward, fresh...
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Cornelia Nixon, Author Harper Perennial $9 (186p) ISBN 978-0-06-097472-5
New York Times correspondent Malcolm recalls his mother and the family obligations he undertook during her terminal illness in this affecting memoir. Photos. (Apr.)
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Cornelia Nixon. Counterpoint (PGW, dist.), $26 (240p) ISBN 978-1-61902-949-1
Nixon’s (Angels Go Naked) fourth novel follows the electricity and heartbreak of the bicoastal marriage of two teachers and poets. Ray, 52, and Abby, 60, have been married for 25 years, and they have beaten the odds and remained close through time....
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