Judith Freeman, Author . Pantheon $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-375-42092-4
In 1857, in a field in southern Utah, a party of Mormons and Native Americans slaughtered more than a hundred men, women and children who were traveling to California. Only one man was ever tried, and executed, for the horror that became known as...
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Judith Freeman, Author . Pantheon $25.95 (353p) ISBN 978-0-375-42351-2
Novelist Freeman (Red Water
) turns her obsession with Chandler and his beautiful wife, Cissy, into a kind of voyeuristic exploration of their unusual but symbiotic marriage. The creator of Philip Marlowe and author of such classics as The Long...
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Judith Freeman, Author Vintage Books USA $14 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-73052-1
The story of a middle-aged novelist troubled by encounters with a past lover and a young prostitute. (June)
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Judith Freeman, Author Pantheon Books $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-43290-6
Novelist Lucy Patterson, the 45-year-old narrator, tells us that once she wanted to write a huge historical narrative but that ""the harder I tried to focus on my grand themes... the more personal were the events, the smaller the ideas, that...
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Judith Freeman, Author Viking Books $16.95 (227p) ISBN 978-0-670-82108-2
Freeman's 11-story debut is an able chronicle of the ordinary, bittersweet routine of family life, but one wishes for more sparkle in her earthy, gentle prose. In the title story, a man marries a woman 25 years his junior and gradually assimilates...
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Judith Freeman, Author W. W. Norton & Company $19.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-393-02722-8
Most of the delightful cast of eccentrics who populate this first novel are Mormons whose insular community Freeman ( Family Attractions ) re-creates expertly. When Verna Fields's husband of 17 years leaves her for a woman named Pinky, Verna quits...
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Judith Freeman, Author W. W. Norton & Company $19.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-393-03027-3
Freeman's novels ( The Chinchilla Farm ) have grace, style and subtlety--and something more: a candid, unsentimental view of human relationships that nevertheless confirms the redemptive power of love. In an economically depressed rural community in
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Judith Freeman. Pantheon, $27.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-307-90861-2
Novelist Freeman (Red Water) recounts her upbringing in a Utah Mormon family where she never quite belonged in this poignant, if at times meandering, memoir of a life lived chafing against restrictions. Freeman was one of eight children, and only...
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Judith Freeman. Pantheon, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-59331-595-8
Freeman returns to characters from her first novel, The Chinchilla Farm (1991), for a story of two women whose lives range well beyond the origins of their small Utah town. In 1984, Verna Fields’s husband leaves her, prompting her to travel to Los...
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