Evan S. Connell, Author . Counterpoint $28 (576p) ISBN 978-1-58243-162-8
These 20 erudite and entertaining historical essays (all but three of which have appeared in previous volumes) highlight Connell's wide-ranging intellect and lucid prose. He revels in unexpected turns of fate and relishes the picturesque,...
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Evan S. Connell, Author . Counterpoint $25 (256p) ISBN 978-1-58243-307-3
This rousing history of Goya's life and times opens with a devastating anecdote about his most notorious model. Evidently the 13th duchess of Alba, "by every account a mankiller," once picked up a poor seminarian while cruising incognito
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Evan S. Connell, Author . Counterpoint $27 (359p) ISBN 978-1-59376-175-2
Virtually all of these 22 stories from octogenarian Connell (Mrs. Bridge
) are set in the U.S.—“an insensate, vulgar, flatulent, bloodless...nation of merchant, thugs, Protestants, and barbers”—where trapped characters...
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Evan S. Connell, Author North Point Press $19.95 (214p) ISBN 978-0-86547-464-2
A banquet of ideas, Connell's esoteric novel, evoking the Western world poised on the brink of modernity, has a central preoccupation: At what price to the soul has today's mechanistic worldview been forged? The narrative consists of seven imaginary
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Evan S. Connell, Author Penguin Books $10 (224p) ISBN 978-0-14-016932-4
Seven imaginary pre-Renaissance diaries, featuring luxuriant, if overwrought prose, evoke the Western world on the brink of modernity. (Sept.)
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Evan S. Connell, Author Counterpoint LLC $30 (688p) ISBN 978-1-887178-06-8
Connell, now 70, is a consummate craftsman who has enjoyed some remarkable successes (Mrs. Bridge and Son of the Morning Star) but who has never developed a clear literary profile. The publication of his collected stories is a bold move by new...
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Evan S. Connell, Author Counterpoint LLC $28 (462p) ISBN 978-1-58243-065-2
Arraying himself wholly in a medieval mindset for this difficult, ungainly but rewarding novel, Connell writes a massive, determinedly archaic history of the crusades from the point of view of a French knight. Jean Joinville, a participant in the...
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