John L'Heureux, Author . Atlantic Monthly $24 (240p) ISBN 978-0-87113-857-6
L'Heureux (An Honorable Profession, etc.) takes a wry but revelatory look at the connection between faith and love in his latest novel, about a charismatic, self-absorbed, 34-year-old priest named Paul LeBlanc who gets transferred out of his...
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John L'Heureux, Author Viking Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-81752-8
Less accomplished than one would expect from the publisher's advance ballyhoo, but leading up to a boffo ending, L'Heureux's (Desires) new novel titillates and titillatesand finally delivers. The major flaw is a cast of superficial, unappealing...
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John L'Heureux, Author Viking Books $17.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-670-82918-7
In this collection of stories and one novella, L'Heureux ( A Woman Run Mad ) explores the possibilities for faith and redemption in a secular age. Suffused with a religious, almost supernatural vision of life's mystery, his Flannery O'Connor-like...
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John L'Heureux, Author Viking Books $19.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-670-82919-4
Poet and novelist L'Heureux ( A Woman Run Mad ) here offers a modern-day variation on The Children's Hour with this portrayal of a teacher victimized by a whispering campaign. Miles Bannon is a popular high school English teacher in Boston who...
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John L'Heureux, Author Penguin Books $9 (224p) ISBN 978-0-14-016765-8
L'Heureux explores faith and redemption in a secular age. ``His Flannery O'Connor-like moral tales expose the perverse secrets hidden in our hearts and capture the irreversible moments in which lives are forever changed,'' said PW. Penguin's...
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John L'Heureux, Author Penguin Books $10 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-016711-5
L'Heureux hits the bull's-eye with this compelling take on the fine line between cruelty and obsessive love, the story of a man's mutilation of his young son. (Mar.)
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John L'Heureux, Author Soho Press $23 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56947-073-2
The absurdities of academe are a springboard for L'Heureux's 15th book, a wacky tale of lust, intellectual pretension, petty jealousy and divine intervention in the English department at a distinguished, but unnamed, Northern California University....
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John L'Heureux, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-87113-763-0
Boston psychiatrists and their loved ones nearly wreck one another's privileged lives in L'Heureux's witty but labored 14th novel. Philip Tate, 45, has just been appointed a prestigious Chair in the psychiatry department at Harvard Medical School....
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John L’Heureux. Penguin, $16 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-14-313523-4
This droll, sordid final novel by the late L’Heureux (The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast) examines the limits of charity alongside an enthralling family chronicle. Set in Palo Alto in the 2000s amid rising fear of terrorism, the story follows aging...
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