David Huddle, Author . Houghton Mifflin $24 (208p) ISBN 978-0-618-08173-8
An art professor ignores her marital problems while she creates an elaborate, semi-erotic literary fantasy involving 17th-century painter Georges de La Tour in Huddle's beautifully written but awkwardly plotted second novel. Suzanne Nelson,...
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David Huddle, Author David R. Godine Publisher $12.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-87923-817-9
Marital troubles, student-teacher relationships, love, failed connections and homophobia are some of the themes in Huddle's finely crafted, intertwined stories. (Oct.)
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David Huddle, Author David R. Godine Publisher $20.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-87923-933-6
The 13 stories in this fourth collection from Huddle ( The High Spirits ) are told in a voice that is both analytical and foreboding, giving these tales of love and seduction a kind of of gothic realism. In ``Scotland,'' a woman remembers touring...
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David Huddle, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $23 (208p) ISBN 978-0-395-96605-1
Already an accomplished writer of short fiction (Tenorman, Intimates, etc.), Huddle applies his story-writing skills to this shimmering debut novel, which traces the protracted, subtle fallout of an affair between 15-year-old Marcy Bunkleman and 41-y
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David Huddle, Author Louisiana State University Press $19.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-8071-2382-9
After three previous books of poetry and four of short stories, this ample helping of Huddle's verse appears simultaneously with his impressive first novel, The Story of a Million Years (Forecasts, Aug. 2). Though Huddle writes ""I confess/ to...
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David Huddle, Author David R. Godine Publisher $17.95 (259p) ISBN 978-0-87923-735-6
Marital slippage, student-teacher relationships, love or failure to connect, and homophobia are some of the themes in Huddle's ( Only the Little Bone ) finely crafted, intertwined stories. Gangling saxophonist Billy Hyatt faces a teenage paternity...
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David Huddle, Author Peregrine Smith Books $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87905-459-5
This debut collection opens with a mysterious and linguistically lush epigraph from Elizabeth Bowen that sets the tone for the poems which follow. Much of the work depends upon provocative, and often beautiful, imagery: a sleep mask, a man's lip cut
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David Huddle, Author Louisiana State University Press $22.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-8071-2381-2
After three previous books of poetry and four of short stories, this ample helping of Huddle's verse appears simultaneously with his impressive first novel, The Story of a Million Years (Forecasts, Aug. 2). Though Huddle writes ""I confess/ to...
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David Huddle, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $12.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-8118-1027-2
Timing is everything; bad timing is nothing for jazz legend Edgar DeWeese Carnes and narrator Henry McKernan in Huddle's (Only the Little Bone) disappointingly unjazzy novella, one of the publisher's continuing series of short novels (see A Minus...
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David Huddle, Author University of Notre Dame Press $20 (126p) ISBN 978-0-268-03651-5
Huddle is no stranger to difficult loves; his acclaimed novel, The Story of a Million Years, involved a middle-aged man's affair with his 15-year-old neighbor. These three interlocking tales see love bloom and wilt in a small New England town, a...
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David Huddle. Tupelo, $16.95 trade paper (312p) ISBN 978-1-936797-11-0
Family secrets slowly unravel in Huddle's (The Story of a Million Years) account of a large family and their effervescent patriarch, Horace Houseman. His granddaughter, Eve, reveals his secret as the novel opens, and though it seems absurd and over...
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David Huddle. Tupelo, $16.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-936797-77-6
In this sobering, thought-provoking thriller from Huddle (The Faulkes Chronicle), Maura Nelson, an aerospace engineer who’s working for the intelligence community in Washington, D.C., stumbles on a method by which a single click of a mouse can kill...
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