Joseph McElroy, Author . Overlook $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-58567-350-6
After a 14-year hiatus, McElroy (The Letter Left to Me) breaks his silence with a hefty novel that explores the tangled themes of love, obsession, desire and destiny through the interwoven lives of a small circle of friends and acquaintances in...
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Joseph McElroy, Dalkey Archive, $14.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-56478-602-9
Accomplished and often overlooked literary stylist McElroy (Preparations for Search) hauls out some old and some new stories that question what is knowable and what is being subverted. A teacher's comment to a Brooklynite Arab boy in "No Man's Land"
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Joseph McElroy, Author Alfred A. Knopf $27.5 (1191p) ISBN 978-0-394-50344-8
The daunting (1190 pages) length of this novel is the least of the impediments the author imposes between its sheer mass and the most willing reader. Even more challenging is a narrative manner by design elusive, at times opaque, interspersed with...
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Joseph McElroy, Author Knopf Publishing Group $16.95 (151p) ISBN 978-0-394-57196-6
The nameless narrator of this short, abortive fiction is 15 when his father, a Wall Street employee, dies and his mother hands him a letter kept in a desk drawer for years. This rueful, typewritten note, ostensibly from his dead father, is full of...
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