Joan Frank, Author . Permanent $26 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57962-148-3
Frank's second novel, a compact, bittersweet tale capturing the
\t\t essence of carefree youth and lost innocence, watches two young couples grow as
\t\t their once-idyllic northern California town succumbs to the era of shopping
\t\t malls. An...
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Joan Frank, Author . Univ. of Notre Dame $20 (173p) ISBN 978-0-268-02888-6
The uneasy balance of power between male and female binds this sharp collection of stories from Frank (Boys Keep Being Born
). For working women, playing by the rules means landing a low-end administrative job in the “bullpen,” as in the
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Joan Frank, Author Conari Press $14.5 (146p) ISBN 978-0-943233-68-0
The author's self-pitying attitude does little to illuminate the trials and tribulations of single urban women in this collection of brief essays, some of which previously appeared in Ms., Newsday and other publications. Whether she is discussing...
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Joan Frank. Permanent, $26 (164p) ISBN 978-1-57962-227-5
Frank’s latest (after In Envy Country) is a poignant if narrow portrait of love, friendship, and mortality. In a bohemian Northern California town, writer Rachel Blum ruminates on the life of Mike Spender, oldest friend of her straight-laced lawyer...
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Joan Frank. Univ. of New Mexico, $19.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-0-8263-6137-0
“Place is identity, style, faith, cosmology” notes fiction writer Frank (All the News I Need) in this collection of 16 scintillating essays on travels that map psychological interiors as much as they do geographic landscapes. “Cake-Frosting Country”
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