Kim Powers, Author . Carroll & Graf $24.95 (289p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1723-1
Powers's memoir of his turbulent relationship with his twin brother, Tim, has the feel of a mystery (the memoir centers on a search for the missing Tim over a three-day period). Throughout the narrative, Powers (a screenwriter who has also...
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Kim Powers, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $25 (254p) ISBN 978-0-7867-2033-0
Fans of In Cold Blood and To Kill a Mockingbird will welcome this off-beat novel from Powers (The History of Swimming) about the odd relationship between Truman Capote and Harper Lee. In an intriguing opening, Capote calls Lee late at night to...
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Kim Powers. Tyrus (F + W Media, dist.), $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4405-9192-1
A heart-tugging child-in-peril plot drives this thoughtful crime novel from Powers (Capote in Kansas: A Ghost Story). Ethan “Hercules” Holt won an Olympic decathlon medal in his early 20s amid a steroid doping scandal involving a teammate. Now 39,...
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Kim Powers. Blair, $25.95 (280p) ISBN 978-1-949467-35-2
A son and the ghost of his mother share narrative duties as they both try to solve the puzzle of her death in Powers’s evocative coming-of-age tale (after Dig Two Graves) set in 1960s Texas. Clarke, 10, is crushed by his mother’s death and...
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