Kate Christensen, Author . Broadway $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7679-0801-6
Two years after her well-received debut, Christensen (In the Drink) delivers a knockout sophomore effort, once again set against the backdrop of a glitteringly grungy downtown Manhattan. As the novel begins, 35-year-old pretty boy Jeremy Thrane...
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Kate Christensen, Author . Doubleday $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7679-1030-9
Christensen's two previous novels (Jeremy Thrane
; In the Drink
) were delightfully believable, sympathetic contemporary narratives filled with wry humor and appealing protagonists. Here she ups the ante, with loftier literary aspirations and...
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Kate Christensen, Author . Doubleday $23.95 (305p) ISBN 978-0-385-51845-1
This penetratingly observed novel is less about the great man of its title than the women Oscar Feldman, fictional 20th-century New York figurative painter (and an infamous seducer of models as well as a neglectful father), leaned on and left behind:
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Kate Christensen, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (311p) ISBN 978-0-385-52730-9
Christensen follows The Great Man
with this slightly lesser work, a coming-of-middle-age novel that explores the sexual lives of three women in their 40s. Best friends since their college days, trust-funder Indrani, therapist Josie and L.A. rocker...
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Kate Christensen, Author Doubleday Books $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-49450-2
The smart, urban and aimless have found their heroine in this charmingly original debut novel. Claudia Steiner is a funny, pretty, cynical 29-year-old who has ""failed to connect"" and who's disillusioned with her spotty employment history and...
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Kate Christensen. Doubleday, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-53091-0
Like the rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn of its setting, Christensen's unremittingly wonderful latest (after Trouble) is populated by an odd but captivating mix of characters. At the center is Harry Quirk, a middle-aged poet whose comfortable life is...
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Kate Christensen. Doubleday, , $26.95 ISBN 978-0385536264
Novelist Christensen (The Great Man) describes her 1970s upbringing in Arizona in this unpretentious memoir. The oldest daughter of a Marxist lawyer and Waldorf-educated cellist, Christensen always modeled herself after her tough, uncompromising,...
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Kate Christensen. Doubleday, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-53628-8
This sly novel from Christensen (winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award for The Great Man) begins as a casual romp and then heads inexorably into darker territory. Embarking from California on the final voyage of an ocean liner that first hit the seas in...
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Kate Christensen. Harper, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-329970-2
In Christensen’s penetrating latest (after The Last Cruise), a journalist returns to her hometown in Maine after the death of her estranged mother, Lucie. Rachel is a “middle-aged childless recently orphaned menopausal workaholic.” Her sister,...
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Kate Christensen and Melissa Henderson. Disney/De la Cruz, $18.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-368-09943-1
Christensen (Welcome Home, Stranger, for adults) and Henderson layer sweeping fantasy with chaste romance and spiritualism in this beguiling story about occultist sisters determined to save their town and their reputations. In 1848 Redcliffe, Mass.,
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