Books by Edward Hower and Complete Book Reviews
Edward Hower, Author . Leapfrog $14.95 (317p) ISBN 978-0-9679520-3-1
A pair of 19th-century British spiritualists travel to India to meet the masters of their craft in Hower's latest, a historical novel loosely based on the lives of Russian-born mystic Madame Helena Blavatsky and her partner, Col. Henry Steel...
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Edward Hower, Author . Ontario Review $22.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-86538-106-3
A Sri Lankan Christian family's small nature sanctuary becomes a potential hideout for Tamil Tiger terrorists in Hower's sixth novel (after Shadows and Elephants). Eleven-year-old Lila Gunsekera is the daughter of a Sri Lankan father and...
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Edward Hower, Author Permanent Press (NY) $24 (220p) ISBN 978-1-877946-92-9
Oversized June Chatwin, a 21-year-old who wears a big black Stetson, is good at listening to other people's problems--a good thing since the former rodeo rider, general outsider and recovering alcoholic has landed herself at a Connecticut asylum so...
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Edward Hower, Author Permanent Press (NY) $22 (221p) ISBN 978-1-877946-71-4
Overcoming several cliches of plot and character, Hower's third novel (after The New Life Hotel and Wolf Tickets) is a coming-of-age story that offers a penetrating and graceful examination of a dysfunctional upper-class Connecticut family. Narrator
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Edward Hower, Author Viking Books $17.95 (350p) ISBN 978-0-670-81272-1
From the moment that Katrina Nelson is greeted by her counselor, Steven Fox, at the entrance to the medium-security facility where she has been sent for rehabilitation, her well-being and that of the others who live there become matters of anxious...
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