David Whitehouse. Simon & Schuster, $24 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4516-1422-0
A masterful balance of displaced emotion, black humor, and reportage, this accomplished debut offers an offbeat insight into the lives of a family dealing with morbid obesity. Malcolm "Mal" Ede is the ultimate nonconformist, and, on his 25th...
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David Whitehouse. Smithsonian (Random, dist.), $35 (128p) ISBN 978-1-58834-324-6
Despite the ubiquity of glass objects in our lives, “it is difficult to identify a book that provides a short, readable, overview” of the subject, argues Whitehouse (Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass), senior scholar at the Corning Museum...
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David Whitehouse. Scribner, $25 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4767-4943-3
After a thrashing by his abusive father and a schoolyard fight, young Bobby Nusku takes refuge with a neighborhood cleaning lady, Val, and her disabled daughter, Rosa, all the while pining for his mysteriously absent mother. Piling into a recently...
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David Whitehouse. Pegasus, $27.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-60598-959-4
Guided by the most up-to-date scientific findings, British science journalist Whitehouse (Renaissance Genius) commands an imagined voyage into Earth’s interior. He frames his journey with Jules Verne’s 1864 novel, Journey to the Center of the Earth,
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David Whitehouse. Icon, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-1-78578-646-4
Science journalist Whitehouse (Apollo 11: The Inside Story) forecasts what awaits the American space program over the next 50 years in this vivid outing. After NASA’s heyday during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Whitehouse writes, lack of...
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