Julie Myerson, Author . Little, Brown $23.95 (327p) ISBN 978-0-316-77984-5
A senseless murder in a sleepy seaside town in Suffolk catastrophically disrupts the lives of two families in this rather predictable but artful novel by Myerson (Laura Blundy
; Me and the Fat Man
; etc.). The victim is Lennie, a potter and mother...
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Julie Myerson, Author . Bloomsbury $26 (326p) ISBN 978-1-59691-700-2
In this difficult, unsettling memoir, English novelist (Sleepwalking
) Myerson attempts a tricky bifurcated journey between two lives, past and present. Clearly, the author began with the intent of tracing the obscure life and work of a 19th-century
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Julie Myerson, Author Nan A. Talese $20 (207p) ISBN 978-0-385-47506-8
The trouble with this disconcerting first novel is not so much the premise-that a woman in her eighth month of pregnancy is seduced by a man to whom she proves irresistible-but that all the characters are unappealing, and some are downright...
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Julie Myerson, Author Nan A. Talese $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-47507-5
The basic formula of Myerson's second novel (after Sleepwalking ) is a familiar one: a mysterious man crashes headfirst into the lives of a London family, disrupting their daily existence and leaving much chaos in his wake. Donna, the younger of the
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Julie Myerson, Author Little Brown and Company $22.95 (217p) ISBN 978-0-88001-649-0
As she has demonstrated in previous books, Myerson excels at creating troubled, self-destructive heroines who become embroiled in bizarre situations which Myerson describes so matter-of-factly that the disjunction between the character's life and a...
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Julie Myerson, Author Riverhead Hardcover $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-57322-168-9
British writer Myerson (Sleepwalking; Me and the Fat Man) continues to produce unsettling novels that introduce eccentric characters, provocative themes and shocking situations. Set in Victorian London, this remorseless tale about a headstrong,...
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Julie Myerson. Harper Perennial, $15.99 trade paper (576p) ISBN 978-0-06-240932-4
This overlong novel from British author Myerson (The Quickening) focuses on two families living in the same village near Ipswich in Essex, separated by 150 years. In the present, grief-stricken Mary Coles and her husband move to a run-down cottage...
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Julie Myerson. Tin House, $17.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-959030-31-7
In the fiercely intelligent latest from Myerson (The Lost Child), an unnamed middle-aged novelist considers her daughter, a young woman long in the throes of drug addiction. Rather than tell a straightforward tale of familial devastation, the...
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