Books by James Finney Boylan and Complete Book Reviews
Jennifer Finney Boylan, Author, James Finney Boylan, Author Poseidon Press $18.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-72715-4
This unconventional, imaginative and funny first novel by the author of the short story collection Remind Me to Murder You Later makes the most of its bizarre but real-life setting: the coal-mining town of Centralia, Pa., where an underground mine...
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Jennifer Finney Boylan, Author, James Finney Boylan, Author Vintage Books USA $10 (265p) ISBN 978-0-679-73906-7
This humorous, unconventional novel is set in Centralia, Pa., where Nature is in chaos, sulfurous fumes from mine fires fill the air and seemingly random events are cosmically interrelated. (Apr.)
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James Finney Boylan, Author, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Author Random House (NY) $22 (265p) ISBN 978-0-679-43021-6
Boylan's comic sequel to his 1991 debut, The Planets, offers some delightful scenes, but a lack of narrative structure and a tendency toward excessive silliness skewer his saga about a crew of oddballs and misfits in suburban Philadelphia. The...
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