Jennifer Belle, Author . Riverhead $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-57322-185-6
Brimming with Gotham references, weird but lovable characters and typical urban scenes, Belle's second novel (after Going Down, which won her the title of Entertainment Weekly's Best New Novelist of 1996) is a witty and engaging tale of love
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Jennifer Belle, Author . Riverhead $24.95 (333p) ISBN 978-1-59448-946-4
At age 33, in search of a man, a second novel and a life, Manhattan writer Rebekah Kettle occupies the singleton’s circle of hell. Having defaulted on her book contract, she’s reduced to working as a physician’s assistant for her...
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Jennifer Belle, Author . Riverhead $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59448-755-2
Welcome to not-so-happily-ever-after. Soon-to-be-40 Izzy just lost her Wall Street job, has a husband who runs a struggling publishing operation from their apartment, a year-old son, and a growing suspicion she's living life in captivity. “
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Jennifer Belle, Author Riverhead Books $14 (272p) ISBN 978-1-57322-554-0
Belle combines very funny, sharply written prose and a superb grasp of narrative in her debut novel. At the center of it all is her unforgettable main character, Bennington Bloom, a 19-year-old who goes to work as a call girl in high-class New York...
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Jennifer Belle, Author, David M. McPhail, Illustrator , illus. by David McPhail. Hyperion $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1834-1
In this alphabet book, the letters in the names of animals and other critters stack up to be clever acrostics. For example, "Ant
" runs vertically from the top of the page, while the following text unfolds horizontally: "A
unt Alice and...
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Jennifer Belle. Akashic, $16.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-63614-164-0
Belle (High Maintenance) returns with a funny and intimate portrait of a precocious 14-year-old girl whose family life is ruptured in 1982. At summer camp, Swanna is relieved to be free from the stress caused by her parents’ recent separation. But...
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