Jessica Shattuck, Author . Norton $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-05132-2
Shattuck's debut novel is a social comedy, with flashes of darker import, about an upper-crust Boston suburban family forced to come to terms with the pressures of contemporary life and the ways in which they succeed, or more frequently fail....
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Jessica Shattuck, Author . Norton $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-393-06950-1
Shattuck’s seamless second (after The Hazards of Good Breeding
) explores how one woman’s decision to shut the biological father of her child out of her life affects a group of old college pals. Harvard grad Neil Banks isn’t...
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Jessica Shattuck. Morrow, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06256-366-8
Shattuck (The Hazards of Good Breeding) explores the lives of three widows at the tail end of World War II in this redemptive tale. Marianne von Lingenfels, whose husband was one of many resisters murdered in a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler,...
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Jessica Shattuck. Morrow, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-297989-6
The bustling if scattered latest from Shattuck (The Women in the Castle) draws on the history of America’s interventions in Iran. WWII veteran Nick Taylor, now a lawyer for American Oil, is convinced that the U.S.’s support for the shah during the...
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