Dennis McFarland, Author . Holt $25 (354p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6833-7
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Dennis McFarland
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Dennis McFarland, Author . Holt $25 (290p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7766-7
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n absorbing, resonant domestic drama, McFarland’s latest follows the dysfunctional Owen family’s reunion in Point Clear, Ala., 10 months after the death of the family’s alcoholic patriarch, Roy. Of the three adult children, Ellen,
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Dennis McFarland, Author Harper Perennial $12 (275p) ISBN 978-0-380-71456-8
Martin Lambert, a San Francisco record company owner confronting his wife's desertion and his brother's suicide, blocks grief by falling in love with his brother's pregnant ex-girlfriend, a choral conductor. ``McFarland extracts sweetly sad,...
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Dennis McFarland, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (309p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6608-1
Tragedy strikes quickly, and the memory of it fades slowly--that is the simple theme of this psychological drama by bestselling writer McFarland (The Music Room). Architect Malcolm Vaughn; his wife, Sarah; and their eight-year-old son, Harry, are...
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Dennis McFarland, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (275p) ISBN 978-0-395-54417-4
McFarland extracts sweetly sad, haunting music from a family's dysfunction in this debut novel. Cellist Martin Lambert owns a San Francisco record company. His wife Madeline is divorcing him for another man, and his brother Perry, a composer, has...
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Dennis McFarland, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21.95 (287p) ISBN 978-0-395-64497-3
McFarland's first novel, The Music Room , was justly praised for its insights into human nature and its graceful prose. His new work will draw raves for yet deeper sensibilities, as he tackles the subjects of aging and death. Here he chronicles the...
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Dennis McFarland, Author Broadway Books $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-553-06694-4
To describe McFarland's subtly plotted, eerily plausible third novel as a sophisticated ghost story does it an injustice, because it is as securely based in the real world as any well-written narrative whose characters contemplate existential...
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Dennis McFarland. Pantheon, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-307-90834-6
In McFarland’s emotionally harrowing Civil War novel, Summerfield Hayes is a 19-year-old Brooklynite, living on Hicks Street and pitching for one of the local “base ball” teams. Over the objections of his older sister, Hayes enlists in the Union...
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Michael Shermer, Author, Dennis McFarland, Author . Holt/Times $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7520-5
Drawing on evolutionary psychology, Skeptic
publisher and Scientific American
contributor Shermer (Why People Believe Weird Things
) argues that the sources of moral behavior can be traced scientifically to humanity's evolutionary origins. He...
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