Elizabeth Crane, Author . Little, Brown $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-316-09652-2
Crane creates a spirited cast of loopy, neurotic and self-absorbed women, then puts them through their paces in this debut collection of 16 inventive but frequently one-dimensional stories. Dating is a primary concern, as in "The Archetype's
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Elizabeth Crane, Author . Akashic/Punk Planet $14.95 (183p) ISBN 978-1-933354-43-9
The two most successful stories of Crane’s third collection (following All This Heavenly Glory) are also the most intimate: “The Most Everything in the World” listens in on a husband and wife playing the what-would-you-take-to-a-des
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Elizabeth Crane. Harper Perennial, $14.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-209947-1
At the heart of the dysfunctional Copland family, in Crane’s debut novel (after You Must Be This Happy to Enter, her third short story collection), is bookish wife and mother Jean, embroiled in an affair with a suicidal lover. Her husband, Gordon,...
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Elizabeth Crane. Harper Perennial, $14.99 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-241267-6
A mother and daughter narrate each other’s life stories in Crane’s ambitious, quasi-autobiographical novel. When Lois Crane leaves her husband to pursue a career as an opera singer, dragging her young daughter, Betsy, to New York City, it’s the...
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Elizabeth Crane. Soft Skull (PGW, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-61902-934-7
A daring piece of literature delicately teetering between story and observation, Crane’s fourth collection is an encounter with her inimitable “turf”—a profoundly scrutinized world. Opening with the stunning “Everywhere, Now,” Crane skips from city...
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Elizabeth Crane. Counterpoint, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-1-64009-478-9
In this inventive-to-a-fault memoir, novelist Crane (The History of Great Things) recounts the fragmentation of her marriage in the third person. The unnamed characters are defined by roles: the husband, the wife, the bud (an old friend who becomes...
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