Dinitia Smith, Author Scribner Book Company $22 (256p) ISBN 978-0-684-84329-2
In this delicately handled tale of a man who is not what he seems, young, androgynous Dean Lily arrives in Sparta, N.Y., aspiring to be a professional magician. From Dean's first appearance at the Wooden Nickel bar, where he beats his nemesis Brian...
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Dinitia Smith, Author Henry Holt & Company $0 (291p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1036-7
This earnest tale of loss and recovery rises out of Manhattan writer Laura Fiske's recollections of her childhood. Laura was five, living in England where her father was in the Foreign Service, when her mother died. Soon after, her father married an
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Dinitia Smith. Other Press, $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-59051-778-9
Smith's heavy-handed novel imagines the life of the writer George Eliot at age 60, reflecting back to her disastrous Venetian honeymoon with an abusive younger husband. Eliot was born Marian Evans to a rural farm family that encouraged her education
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