David Rabe, Author . Grove $23 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1807-3
Playwright Rabe (Hurlyburly
, etc.), in this collection, navigates the troubled lives of men set adrift by economic hopelessness, traumatic childhoods and their own inability to connect. The narrator of the title story becomes obsessed with the...
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David Rabe, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (484p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6405-8
In his entertaining second novel, Obie Award–winning playwright Rabe (In the Boom Boom Room
) presents an overly eventful day-in-the-life of two women in smalltown Iowa. Elderly Bernice Doorley is convinced that in the company of Reverend...
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David Rabe, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (228p) ISBN 978-1-4391-6333-7
Rabe, widely known for his Vietnam plays (Sticks and Bones
; etc.), delivers his first Vietnam novel, a competent addition to a very busy subgenre. Pfc. Joseph Whitaker is a draftee from Platteville, Wis., who hopes he will learn how to repair cars...
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David Rabe, Author Grove/Atlantic $19.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1488-4
This curious novel seems to be playwright Rabe's attempt to tap a fictional genre one associates with Central European writers--Kafka and Grass come to mind--transplanted to upstate New York. An unnamed artist tells the story of his psychological...
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David Rabe, Author Miramax Books $22.45 (301p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6119-4
Conflicting needs for vengeance and renewal drive this uneven tale of personal calamity. Since the death of his young daughter, Emily, Freddy Gale has been waiting eight years for the drunk driver who ran her down to be released from a California...
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David Rabe. Delphinium, $28 (240p) ISBN 978-1-953002-18-1
In this skillful if uneven
collection from playwright and novelist Rabe (Hurlyburly), characters contend with their pasts amid uneasy situations. The strong opener, “Things We Worried About When I Was Ten,” follows two young boys in their efforts...
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David Rabe, Author, Robert Andrew Parker, Illustrator , illus. by Robert Andrew Parker Roaring Brook/Porter $16.95 (86p) ISBN 978-1-59643-328-1
“Mystery. And the dark of night coming down all around him. And the squirrel didn't know where he was.” That's the predicament of a squirrel that has fallen from his tree in this thoughtful debut by Tony Award–winning...
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