Kate Braverman, Author . Seven Stories $23.95 (235p) ISBN 978-1-58322-469-4
Poet, short story writer and novelist Braverman (Lithium for Medea) delivers a wildly energetic, nearly hallucinatory account of Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter and wife of Diego Rivera. Frida is 46 and on her deathbed, addicted to morphine, Demerol,...
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Kate Braverman, Author . Graywolf $15 (217p) ISBN 978-1-55597-438-1
Experimental poet and novelist Braverman (The Incantation of Frida K.
) proffers a brash, witty memoir comprising a dozen bubbling, occasionally repetitive essays chronicling her 1990s move from L.A. to an upstate New York farmhouse. After the last...
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Kate Braverman, Author University of Nevada Press $17 (168p) ISBN 978-0-87417-321-5
The women depicted in poet (Postcard from August) and novelist (Wonders of the West) Braverman's unremarkable new collection have fallen out of love with the self-destruction that marked her characters' lives in previous work. Underneath the...
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Kate Braverman, Author Ivy Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8041-0860-7
Braverman gives us lingering glimpses of desperate, alcohol- or drug-abusing L.A. women in these 12 thematically related tales. According to PW , ``Although the intense richness that saturates these stories is occasionally overwhelming, the...
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Kate Braverman, Author Fawcett Books $20 (280p) ISBN 978-0-449-90656-9
The accomplished Braverman's ( Palm Latitudes ) latest work seems destined to draw unfavorable comparisons with Mona Simpson's Anywhere but Here . Like Simpson's novel, it concerns a girl whose feckless young mother uproots them both to California...
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Kate Braverman, Author Simon & Schuster $18.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-64542-7
Propelled by a compelling plot that is enhanced rather than hampered by the lush, sprawling prose, this luminous second novel by the author of Lithium for Medea is a dazzling piece of writing. Set in the Mexican barrio of Los Angeles, it tells of...
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Kate Braverman, Author Penguin Books $8.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-14-012640-2
``Propelled by a compelling plot that is enhanced rather than hampered by the lush sprawling prose, this luminous second novel by the author of Lithium for Medea is a dazzling piece of writing,'' declared PW. Set in the barrio of Los Angeles, the...
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Kate Braverman, Author Fawcett Books $18.95 (241p) ISBN 978-0-449-90551-7
In her first story collection poet and novelist Braverman ( Lithium for Medea ; Palm Latitudes ) creates a mosaic with an integral connectedness; the 12 stories form a complete set of variations on a theme. In lingering glimpses of these Los Angeles
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Kate Braverman. City Lights, $15.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-0-87286-721-5
This extraordinary collection from Braverman (Lithium for Medea) features unforgettable stories of women on the edge, children overlooked, and men at the ends of their ropes. In “What the Lilies Know,” a sober academic is denied tenure and travels...
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