Garret Keizer, Author . HarperCollins $15.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-029456-4
Beer, class and protest intersect in Keizer's (No Place but Here) creative but not completely successful first novel, about teens in rural Vermont. Led by Quaker Oats, the intellectual pal of "towny" narrator Kyle, a group of friends...
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Garret Keizer, Author . Jossey-Bass $22.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7879-5728-5
"I am a descendant of angry men," Episcopal priest Keizer tells readers at the outset of this wise and beautiful reflection on anger. With that, we are lured into a book that is both intensely personal and achingly universal, for Keizer's
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Garret Keizer, Author . Harper-Tempest $6.99 (242p) ISBN 978-0-06-447276-0
"A promising debut novel with the ring of authenticity," said PW
of this story about beer, class, protest and a group of teens in rural Vermont who form a group to "lower the drinking age, raise the drinker's awareness [and] destroy
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Garret Keizer, Author . Harper San Francisco $24.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-06-056062-1
This eloquent inquiry into how humans help or do not help one another ranges widely in philosophical issues. A former Episcopal priest, Keizer (The Enigma of Anger: Essays on a Sometimes Deadly Sin
) offers no panaceas or programs for becoming a...
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Garret Keizer, PublicAffairs, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 9781586485528
Examining noise as a social barometer of sorts, this book covers a wide spectrum, from revolution to religion. The author neatly handles a symphony of facts and ideas, offering frequent summations like "The history of noise abatement is to a large...
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Garret Keizer, Author Viking Books $15.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-670-81498-5
The Northeast Kingdom, in rural Vermont, is not only ``an amenable place to settle,'' but evidently a fine place to be a teacher. Keizer, an Episcopal minister, writes here about his seven-year teaching career at Lake Region Union High School and...
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Garret Keizer, Author Viking Books $19.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-670-82723-7
In Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, Keizer, a lay Episcopal minister and author of No Place But Here , finds the end of a winding path that took him to the small, rural parish of Island Pond. There he is husband, father and high school teacher, and...
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Garret Keizer. Picador, $15 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-0-312-55484-2
Critically acclaimed author Keizer (The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want) writes elegantly about the devastating effect the electronic, post-9/11 age has had on the concept of privacy. After surveying a host of definitions of privacy, he offers...
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Garret Keizer. Metropolitan, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9643-9
This memoir by Harper’s contributing editor Keizer (Privacy), written entirely in the present tense and based on a 2011 Harper’s essay of the same title, is at once a sympathetic portrait of a school, a searing indictment of a culture that uses...
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