Heidi Julavits, Author . Putnam $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-15049-4
When contentious half-sisters Alice and Edith board a jetliner en route to Morocco, where Edith is to be married, they step unknowingly into a vortex of international intrigue when the jet is hijacked—or is it? As events unfold, the motives...
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Heidi Julavits, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (356p) ISBN 978-0-385-51323-4
On November 7, 1985, Mary Veal, 16, a not especially distinguished upper-middle-class girl, disappears from New England's Semmering Academy. A month later she reappears at Semmering, claiming amnesia, but hinting at abduction and ravishment. The
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Heidi Julavits, Author Putnam Adult $23.95 (326p) ISBN 978-0-399-14622-0
As they drive from Minnesota to her physician husband's new job in Pueblo, Colo., in 1934, Bena Jonssen encounters on-the-run bank thief Bonnie Parker (of Bonnie and Clyde fame), who gives her a tarnished silver charm. This surreal event, and others
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Heidi Julavits. Doubleday, $25.95 (275p) ISBN 978-0-385-52381-3
A young student surpasses her troubled mentor, unleashing much wrath, in Julavits’s wry, witty new novel (after The Uses of Enchantment). Julia Severn is a mediocre student at New Hampshire’s Institute of Integrated Parapsychology, which is no...
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Heidi Julavits. Doubleday, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-53898-5
When Julavits, a novelist (The Vanishers) and founding editor of the Believer magazine, rediscovered the diary she kept as a young girl, she was disappointed by its lack of imagination, style, and wit. So, in her 40s, she set out to chronicle the...
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Heidi Julavits, read by Xe Sands. Dreamscape Media, unabridged, seven CDs, 9 hrs., $59.99 ISBN 978-1-61120-497-1
Julia Severn is an initiate at a psychic institute in New Hampshire who comes under the tutelage of a medium named Madame Ackermann. But Julia—who is searching for answers about her deceased mother—is forced to leave the institute following a...
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Heidi Julavits, Author, Shelly Frasier, Read by , read by Shelly Frasier. Tantor Audio $37.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0349-2
Echoes and parodies of complex psychosexual antecedents, including Freud's analysis of Dora, the Salem witch trials and parts of The Malleus Maleficarum
, underlieJulavits's third novel. The novel's complex structure (it spans 15 years...
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Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton & 639 others. Penguin/Blue Rider, $30 trade paper (512p) ISBN 978-0-399-16656-3
Thoughtfully crafted and visually entertaining, this collection, edited by Heti (How Should A Person Be?), Julavits (The Vanishers), and Shapton (Swimming Studies), uses personal reflections from 642 contributors to examine women’s relationship with
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