Joanna Scott, Author . Little, Brown $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-77618-9
Napoleonic history, geology and a father's folly are woven together in this captivating novel by Scott (The Manikin; Make Believe). In 1956, extravagant, debt-ridden Murray Murdoch takes his wife and four young sons on a vacation to Elba, where...
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Joanna Scott, Author . Little, Brown $23.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-316-01053-5
The morning after her 70th birthday party, attended by her dutiful husband and children, Adriana Rundel takes a commuter train from suburban New Jersey to Manhattan, and becomes lost in memories of her WWII girlhood as a Jew in hiding on the Italian
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Joanna Scott, Author . Back Bay $13.99 (260p) ISBN 978-0-316-01345-1
From the formidable imagination of Scott (Pulitzer Prize–finalist The Manikin
, etc.) comes a collection of 10 stories that stalk across the 20th century to document love and its consequences. In "Heaven and Hell," a bride and groom...
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Joanna Scott, Author Back Bay Books $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-316-77616-5
Unafraid to take risks, Scott (The Manikin) is a resourceful writer who explores new territory each time she writes fiction. Here she establishes a dramatic situation at the outset, and uses flashbacks to flesh out the characters whose actions will...
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Joanna Scott. Little, Brown, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-36383-9
In the late ’50s, at the outset of the women’s lib movement, a woman named Maggie Gleason goes to work for real-life figure Lee K. Jaffe, head of public relations for the New York Port Authority. She’s an inspiration for the women who work for her,...
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Joanna Scott, Author . Little, Brown $24.99 (420p) ISBN 978-0-316-05165-1
A granddaughter sifts through her grandmother’s rich and mysterious life in Pulitzer finalist Scott’s latest. As a teenager in 1946, Sally Werner experiences something between rape and seduction at the hands of her cousin, resulting in a
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Joanna Scott, Author Back Bay Books $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3974-0
With versatility and virtuosity to spare, Scott has employed her fecund imagination and intensely observant eye in three highly praised novels (the most recent was Arrogance) and one short-story collection (Various Antidotes). Each of the novels was
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Joanna Scott, Author Black Heron Press $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-930773-46-5
Individual responsibility is the central theme of this earnest allegorical tale of a young American who recalls the events leading to his capture and imprisonment during the Vietnamese war. Scott's parable of modern negligence presents the brutality
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Joanna Scott, Author Ticknor & Fields $17.95 (290p) ISBN 978-0-89919-662-6
The promise of Scott's brilliant first novel Fading, My Parmacheene Belle has been realized with this extraordinary tale of a doomed slave ship, narrated by its 14-year-old captain's apprentice. As the Charles Beauchamp crosses the Atlantic and...
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Joanna Scott, Author Simon & Schuster $18.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-671-69547-7
Based on the short and troubled life of expressionist painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918), Scott's ambitious novel examines the artistic imperative and its obsessive nature, the power of social conventions and fabric of life in Vienna at the turn of...
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Joanna Scott, Author Back Bay Books $20 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2647-4
``When a girl was recalcitrant, I used the whip . . . There is nothing more instructive than shame . . .'' begins ``Dorothea Dix: Samaritan,'' the best of these 11 stories by an author whose previous three novels ( Fading, My Parmacheene Belle , etc.
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Joanna Scott. Little, Brown, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-49874-6
Scott (Careers for Women) returns to short fiction with a vibrant collection that explores human desire and vulnerability in a staggering range of circumstances, often built on contrasts and comparisons between the present and ancient history. After
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