Jean Hanff Korelitz, Author . Cavendish $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7614-5139-6
Nina, the 11-year-old protagonist of Korelitz's first novel for children, struggles with school but loves art and music. When a substitute art teacher recommends she jazz up a picture by adding some interference powder (in real life, it's a...
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Jean Hanff Korelitz, Author . Miramax $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4013-5231-8
Korelitz, known for her intelligent thrillers (The Sabbathday River,
etc.), strikes off in a new direction with this mordant story of aging, love and self-discovery, a reimagining of the Strauss opera Der Rosenkavalier
set in upper-class Jewish...
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Jean Hanff Korelitz, Author . Grand Central $24.99 (452p) ISBN 978-0-446-54070-4
Portia Nathan, the overly dedicated 38-year-old Princeton admissions officer, narrator of Korelitz's overthought fourth novel, finds purpose in her gatekeeper role. But her career and conscience are challenged after she visits a down-at-the-heel
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Jean Hanff Korelitz, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY) $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-70061-7
This fast-moving legal thriller, an accomplished first novel, follows New York City Legal Aid lawyer Sybylla Muldoon as she prepares to defend a once-gentle homeless man named Trent who has been arrested for the brutal stabbing of an Upper East Side
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Jean Hanff Korelitz, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $25 (512p) ISBN 978-0-374-25323-3
When Naomi Roth pulls the body of a stabbed infant girl from the Sabbathday River, she precipitates an investigation that devastates the small New Hampshire town she hoped to save. Smart and engrossing, this thriller addresses the complex morality...
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Jean Hanff Korelitz. Grand Central, $26 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4555-9949-3
This excellent literary mystery by the author of 2009’s Admission unfolds with authentic detail in a rarified contemporary Manhattan. Therapist Grace Reinhart Sachs is about to embark on a publicity blitz to promote her buzzed-about book on why...
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Jean Hanff Korelitz. Grand Central, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4555-9238-8
Korelitz (Admission) raids the current news climate for this hot-topic read about diversity, protest, and “liberal idiocy” on the campus of progressive Webster College, headed by its first female and Jewish president, Naomi Roth, a feminist academic
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Jean Hanff Korelitz, read by Kate Burton. Hachette Audio, , unabridged, 9 CDs, 11 hrs., $30 ISBN 978-1-4789-3486-8
A consummate actor, Burton hits all the right notes delving into the conflicted inner life of Webster College President Naomi Roth: she convincingly portrays Roth’s pain that her daughter is growing older and moving on, and as she deals with a...
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Jean Hanff Korelitz. Celadon, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-79076-7
Jacob Finch Bonner, the hapless protagonist of this ingeniously twisty novel from Korelitz (The Devil and Webster), teaches creative writing in a low-residency MFA program at Ripley College in Vermont. Since his first novel came out to critical...
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Jean Hanff Korelitz. Celadon, $28 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-79079-8
Korelitz (The Plot) returns with an irresistible dramedy of errors about a singularly unhappy family. There’s no love lost among Salo and Johanna Oppenheimer’s triplets as they head off to college in 2000. Harrison, “the smart one”; Lewyn, “the...
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Jean Hanff Korelitz. Celadon, $29 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-87547-1
After the death of her novelist husband, Anna Williams-Bonner fights to protect his legacy—and hers—in Korelitz’s powerhouse sequel to The Plot. Pushed by the agent she inherited from her late husband, Jacob Bonner, to write a book inspired by Jacob’
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