Dana Andrew Jennings, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $21.95 (295p) ISBN 978-0-15-198367-4
Jennings ( Mosquito Games ) employs evocative imagery to illuminate the unenviable, hardscrabble lives of a Granite, N.H., family. Fearsome matriarch Nanna Page bestows on her three daughters a legacy of concealed emotions and withheld affection as...
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Dana Andrew Jennings, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-100188-0
Though apparently intended as an elegiac ode to a rural Northeast town ravaged by the by-products of a toxic waste dump, Jennings's latest novel (after Women of Granite) is coarsened by cliches of plot and character. The story opens with the murder...
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Dana Andrew Jennings, Author Ticknor & Fields $17.95 (206p) ISBN 978-0-89919-694-7
A grimly realistic slice of American gothic, this savagely comic first novel delineates Granite, N.H., a mill town where the Fruit & Real Estate stand sells watermelons and gravestones, a swampy backwater where ne'er-do-well Denny Gamble makes love...
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Dana Andrew Jennings, Author, Goro Sasaki, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200085-1
New York Times sports editor Jennings's first picture book is a nostalgic early 1940s race car story. ""Number 6"" is the 1937 Pontiac that Andy's millworker dad has rebuilt for racing. Andy narrates with a vernacular that is both working class and...
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