Elizabeth Jolley, Author Penguin Books $6.95 (229p) ISBN 978-0-14-008418-4
In this collection of short stories, as in her other work (Mr Scobie's Riddle, Milk and Honey, Australian writer Jolley presents characters who are displacedeither from their native countries or from the prosperity that never came their way. The...
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Elizabeth Jolley, Author Penguin Books $6.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-14-007743-8
Two novels are contained here: one is about middle-aged Londoner Miss Peabody who works and cares for her ailing mother. The other is a novel-in-progress sent irregularly to Miss Peabody from a writer in Australia to whom she once wrote a fan letter.
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Elizabeth Jolley, Author Persea Books $14.95 (185p) ISBN 978-0-89255-102-6
The sad Viennese in this novel fled when the Nazis took over their country and now live in a Gothic houseapparently in Australia, the author's homethat evokes Wuthering Heights or Thornfield. Jolley (Miss Peabody's Inheritance and Mr. Scobie's...
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Elizabeth Jolley, Author HarperCollins Publishers $7.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-091588-9
Edwin is a middle-aged literature professor whose wife, Cecilia, on a European sabbatical, leaves him in the care of their circle of friends, a group of gently swinging couples. ``The sheer fun of Jolley's writing and her lighthearted yet serious...
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Elizabeth Jolley, Author Penguin Books $5.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-14-008380-4
Dowdy Alma Porch arrives at a school where she will teach drama to students whose primary goal is to lose weight during the month-long session. While the novel is intentionally, but not successfully, absurd, Australian Jolley ""offers some...
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Elizabeth Jolley, Author Viking Books $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-81103-8
The suspense in this chilling novel by the awesomely talented Australian writer ( Miss Peabody's Inheritance is ignited in the very first line, when Hester Harper's ancient father asks her what she has brought him from the store. She has in fact...
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Elizabeth Jolley, Author Persea Books $15.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-89255-116-3
We first meet Laura, a 50-ish doctor who is no longer licensed to practice, as she is returning home to Australia by ship after touring Europe. She finds herself attracted to Andrea, a blonde young woman who reminds her of the beloved palomino...
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Elizabeth Jolley, Author Viking Books $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-80946-2
The Australian author (The Well) imprints the heroine of her new novel indelibly upon the reader's imagination. To the people whose houses she cleans, Margarite Morris is ""Newspaper'' or ``Weekly.'' She tells everyone about all the events in the...
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Elizabeth Jolley, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.95 (171p) ISBN 978-0-06-016062-3
Darker in tone than her recent The Sugar Mother , Jolley's new novel establishes a somber, brooding atmos phere in the first of 10 interlocking segments, then flashes back to the circumstances that led to Vera Wright's current plight and bleak...
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Elizabeth Jolley, Author Viking Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-82113-6
First published in the author's native Australia, these selections consist of two parts, ""Five Acre Virgin'' and ``The Travelling Entertainer.'' In the first, 11 stories reveal the bases of Jolley's memorable novel, The Newspaper of Claremont...
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Elizabeth Jolley, Author HarperCollins Publishers $16.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-06-015940-5
Jolley's latest novel (after Palomino) is again set in her native Australia but could take place anywhere. Edwin, a pedantic and in many ways childish 54-year-old professor of literature, has been left a grass widower for a year. His obstetrician...
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Elizabeth Jolley, Author Penguin Books $6.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-14-008582-2
The memorable heroine of this novel is a walking ``newspaper,'' who tells the people whose houses she cleans about all the events in the neighborhood. A ``sad, sometimes wildly funny, altogether wonderful story,'' cheered PW. (Dec . )
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Elizabeth Jolley, Author Penguin Books $7.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-14-008581-5
In the 11 stories of ``Five Acre Virgin,'' the narrator describes growing up with her mother and older brother, a petty thief. The 10 entries in ``The Travelling Entertainer'' illuminate the plight of loners in big cities. ``The author trusts...
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Elizabeth Jolley, Author HarperCollins Publishers $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-016622-9
Readers of Jolley's last novel, My Father's Moon , will be swept by deja vu as they read this work, which deals with the same incidents in the life of narrator Vera Wright, a nursing student in London during WW II who has an illegitimate child by a...
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Elizabeth Jolley, Author . Persea $19.95 (552p) ISBN 978-0-89255-352-5
The first two novels of this trilogy by the late Australian writer Jolley were issued in the U.S. in the 1980s, but the third was not available until now. Largely autobiographical, the novels provide a haunting portrait of a woman who came of age...
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