Books by Kem Nunn and Complete Book Reviews

Kem Nunn, Author . Scribner $25 (307p) ISBN 978-0-684-84305-6
Sam Fahey, an ex-con and ex-surfer now running a worm farm, is tracking a pack of feral dogs in the Tijuana River Valley when he encounters a badly beaten Mexican woman stumbling across the dunes near Tijuana Straits, a legendary surf spot. But...
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Kem Nunn, Author Scribner Book Company $24 (368p) ISBN 978-0-684-82647-9
""Surfers loved their stories. Big waves and outlaws. Eccentrics who had managed somehow to beat the system, to stay in the life when others moved inland and paid taxes."" No one knows this better than Nunn (Pomona Queen), who, after 13 years,...
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Kem Nunn, Author Delacorte Press $16.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-385-29536-9
In this accomplished new novel that confirms the promise of Nunn's first book, Tapping the Source, he heat of the Mojave Desert not only curls the hairs on a driver's arm; it also makes the few isolated settlements tremendously lonely, the...
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Kem Nunn. Scribner, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8924-5
Best known for his surfer noir classics Tapping the Source and Tijuana Straits, Nunn switches gears with this brilliant and cerebral psychological thriller. The quiet, ordered life of Dr. Eldon Chance, a recently divorced Bay Area forensic...
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Kem Nunn, Author, Maryanne Sacco, Editor Scribner Book Company $12 (240p) ISBN 978-0-671-79877-2
Pomona, Calif., is the setting for Nunn's remarkable exploration of the seedier side of his native state. (Apr.) *CHILDREN'S...
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