Jack Driscoll, Author . Univ. of Michigan $24 (245p) ISBN 978-0-472-11471-9
A Michigan man hies to a remote cabin in the woods to weather a midlife crisis in Driscoll's observant, meandering fourth novel, which traces the struggles of Archibald Angel after his divorce from his vegan artist wife, Z. A compulsive...
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Jack Driscoll, Author University of Massachusetts Press $32.5 (208p) ISBN 978-0-87023-808-6
Most of the 18 stories in this collection, recipient of the Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction, are tinged with a peculiar sense of longing, one that comes from a conventionally ascribed male inability to express emotion. Actions...
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Jack Driscoll, Author Pushcart Press $24.5 (264p) ISBN 978-1-888889-08-6
It's barely summer in the seaside community of Mystic, Conn., and Perry Lafond, the restive, 38-year-old hero of Driscoll's searing first novel--recipient of the 17th annual Pushcart Press Editor's Book Award--is facing ""the worst funk of his life."
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Jack Driscoll, Author Orchard Books (NY) $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-531-05961-6
Working-class Buddy narrates this account of his relationship with the wealthy Phoebe, from ninth grade to their breakup after her first year at Smith College. Tempted by the life she represents, he travels far--literally and figuratively--from his...
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Jack Driscoll, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $22.95 (259p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2626-0
Driscoll's ironic but meandering follow-up to his well-received first novel, Lucky Man, Lucky Woman, charts the exploits of Earl Patrick Godfrey, an antihero so self-destructive that he makes Nicholas Cage's character in Leaving Las Vegas look like...
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Jack Driscoll. Wayne State Univ., $18.95 trade paper (184p) ISBN 978-0-8143-3612-0
The emotionally or physically absent parents in the 10 stories of Driscoll's new, quietly lovely story collection work in restaurants and slaughterhouses, live in doublewides, and spend their free time pounding beers. The children they leave in...
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