John Gregory Brown, Author . Houghton Mifflin $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-395-78607-9
John James Audubon is seen through a dark lens in this fictional take on a particularly rocky period in his tumultuous life. Told from the perspective of the ornithologist in his ailing old age, Brown's brooding psychological novel chronicles in
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John Gregory Brown, Author Quill $12 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-72447-5
This well-crafted first novel about a New Orleans family offers cogent observations about race relations. (Jan.)
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John Gregory Brown, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-395-67025-5
Brown attempts no less a task than to unravel the mystery of race in this well-crafted and moving first novel. One morning in 1965, Dr. Thomas Eagen, who is white, and Lowell and Meredith, his 12-year-old children by his dead first wife, drive away,
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John Gregory Brown, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-72988-5
His first novel, the praised Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, established Brown as an extraordinarily gifted observer of Southern society, in particular of the nuances of racial relationships. His second book is a sensitive, richly atmospheric,...
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John Gregory Brown. LB/Boudreaux, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-30280-7
Brown’s contemplative fourth novel dissects ideas about grief, loss, and the thin line between sanity and madness. Henry Garrett, a middle-aged former high school teacher, has fled New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, seeking
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