James Hynes, Ma, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (341p) ISBN 978-0-312-45645-0
Paul Trilby is still haunted by the ghost of Charlotte, the cat he drowned in "Queen of the Jungle" (included in Hynes's 1997 story collection, Publish and Perish
), in this hilarious supernatural sendup of office life. An affair having...
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James Hynes, Ma, Author . Little, Brown/Reagan Arthur $28.99 (308p) ISBN 978-0-316-05192-7
In this funny, surprising, and sobering novel, Hynes (Kings of Infinite Space
) follows Kevin Quinn, who has flown to Austin, Tex., for a job interview at the height of a terrorism scare. Kevin, an editor at the University of Michigan, has grown as...
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James Hynes, Ma, Author Picador USA $25 (432p) ISBN 978-0-312-20332-0
Splicing a demonic strain into the usual elements of academic comedy, Hynes's novel, following his acclaimed Publish or Perish, reads like David Lodge rewritten by Mikhail Bulgakov. After Nelson Humboldt (the lecturer in question) is dismissed from...
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James Hynes, Ma, Author Holiday House $18.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-689-12089-3
Northern Ireland, a place almost synonymous with the brand of terrorism practiced by the Provos, the outlaw branch of the Irish Republican Army, is the setting for this accomplished first novel. Paced like a thriller and conveyed through grittily...
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James Hynes, Ma, Author Picador USA $24 (338p) ISBN 978-0-312-15628-2
The strange, treacherous landscape of academia serves as the milieu for the cleverly barbed novellas that comprise Hyne's second book (after his well-received novel, The Wild Colonial Boy, 1990). The characters here are mostly junior faculty and...
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James Hynes, Ma, Author, Jane Rosenman, Editor Washington Square Press $9 (356p) ISBN 978-0-671-74186-0
This novel of Northern Ireland and an American courier jeopardized by his IRA sympathies is paced like a thriller and conveyed through gritty dialogue and detail. (Apr.)
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