Heather McGowan, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-50138-5
In her emotionally resonant and keenly observed first novel, McGowan employs a stream-of-consciousness prose style to describe the trials of a 13-year-old American girl when she is sent to an English boarding school following the death of her mother.
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Heather McGowan, Author . Bloomsbury $22.95 (216p) ISBN 978-1-59691-066-9
McGowan's maverick follow-up to her debut, Schooling
(2001), stars a 30-ish divorced American woman who, it is implied, has the lithe frame, iconic features and sophisticated trashiness of Holly Golightly. Too smart for her own good and lacking
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Heather McGowan. Washington Square, $28.99 (496p) ISBN 978-1-6680-3127-8
This funny if exhausting comedy of manners from McGowan (Dutchess of Nothing) takes place over 24 hours at a New York City art museum. As the day starts, Diane Schwebe, the museum’s increasingly unhinged director, has her plate full. Not only is the
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