Daniel Wallace, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $21.95 (225p) ISBN 978-1-56512-260-4
Wallace follows his inventive debut novel, Big Fish, with another ingenious tragicomedy about a father and son, death and life, storytelling and reality. Beginning when a dead Ray Williams arrives in Heaven, the novel unfolds as the deceased...
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Daniel Wallace, Author . Houghton Mifflin $23 (240p) ISBN 978-0-618-22138-7
Wallace returns to Ashland, Ala., the setting of his debut novel, Big Fish, with this fable about a young man discovering his roots in a Southern town with a dark tradition. Eighteen-year-old Thomas Rider knows nothing about his parents, except that
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Daniel Wallace, Author . Doubleday $21.95 (257p) ISBN 978-0-385-52109-3
An inept African-American illusionist is dogged by the deal he struck with the devil in Wallace's fourth novel, a circus picaresque that barnstorms its way through the 1950s American South. Henry Walker, once the "greatest magician in the...
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Daniel Wallace, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $17.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-56512-217-8
""People mess things up, forget and remember all the wrong things. What's left is fiction,"" writes Wallace in his refreshing, original debut, which ignores the conventional retelling of the events and minutiae of a life and gets right to the poetry
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Daniel Wallace. Touchstone, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4767-0397-8
The fifth novel from Wallace (Big Fish) is an imaginative, sentimental modern-day tall tale. Its setting, the village of Roam (quite possibly in the Appalachian Mountains), is centered on a once-thriving silk factory established by the local...
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Daniel Wallace. St. Martin’s, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-11845-5
In Wallace’s strained new novel, 34-year-old Edsel Bronfman leads an ordinary life until the day he receives a phone call inviting him to spend a weekend in Destin, Fla., as the guest of a condo community. There’s only one catch: the invitation is...
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Daniel Wallace. Algonquin Books, $28 (224p) ISBN 978-1-64-375210-5
Novelist Wallace (Big Fish) pays loving tribute to his late brother-in-law, William Nealy, in this deeply felt memoir. When Wallace was 13, his older sister brought her daredevil 20-year-old boyfriend home to meet the family. From that day, the two...
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