Joan Wickersham, Author . Harcourt $25 (316p) ISBN 978-0-15-101490-3
In spare prose, Wickersham (The Paper Anniversary
) has produced an artful and vivid memoir. Within the index of “suicide,” she has found a form capacious enough for both intimate detail and general information; cold data and lyric...
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Joan Wickersham. Knopf, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-307-95888-4
Subtitled, "Seven Variations on a Love Story," each of the seven stories in this uneven collection is titled "The News from Spain" and makes ingenious use of that phrase somewhere in the narrative. A mother consigned to a nursing home and her adult...
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Joan Wickersham, Author, John Wickersham, Author Viking Books $21 (368p) ISBN 978-0-670-84064-9
The depiction of a young couple's troubled marriage in this wry, candid and often beguiling first novel depends more on accrued detail than controlled plot and character development. Maisie and Jack Eldridge's first (paper) anniversary has been...
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