Laird Hunt, Author . Coffee House $23.95 (205p) ISBN 978-1-56689-117-2
A spy wanders through a strange series of interludes, attacks and interrogations as he struggles to decipher the identity of his potential assassin in Hunt's murky, obscure debut novel. It opens promisingly enough, with an unnamed narrator in...
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Laird Hunt, Author . Coffee House $20 (200p) ISBN 978-1-56689-144-8
Hunt's second novel attempts an update of various Faulknerian conceits: spooky rurality; the eros, time displacements and explosive violence of feeblemindedness; omniscient prose that tries to be rather than to tell the story. An addled and...
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Laird Hunt, Author . Coffee House $14.95 (246p) ISBN 978-1-56689-187-5
Shiftless and broke, thieving drifter Henry gets involved with a gang of faux assassins in Hunt's intensely cerebral third novel. Written in an intentionally mystifying fashion ("Falsification," says one character, "sits at the...
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Laird Hunt, Author . Coffee House $14.95 (194p) ISBN 978-1-56689-232-2
Hunt (Indiana, Indiana
) delivers a fourth novel about drifters that unfortunately never wanders into particularly interesting territory. Unable to find meaning in his life and suffering from a nasty bout of restless leg syndrome, Harry returns to...
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Laird Hunt. Coffee House (Consortium, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-56689-311-4
Hunt tells an unforgettable tale of the savagery of antebellum America in his haunting newest (after The Impossibly). Married off at a young age to her mother's second cousin, the teenaged Ginny quickly discovers that her new husband's Kentucky pig
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Laird Hunt. Little, Brown, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-316-37013-4
Following Kind One, Hunt returns to the 19th century to transform a footnote in history—the women who fought disguised as men in the Civil War—into a haunting meditation on the complexity of human character, the power of secrets, and the...
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Laird Hunt. Little, Brown, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-316-39128-3
At once dreamily timeless and fitting for the current national moment, Hunt’s (Neverhome) hypnotic latest takes place on one evening in August 1920, when two equally strong—and scarred—women cross paths in Indiana. Ottie Lee Henshaw is at work when...
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Laird Hunt. Little, Brown, $22 (224p) ISBN 978-0-316-41105-9
Hunt (The Evening Road) packs this eerie tale of wayward women with tinges of witchcraft and nightmarish imagery. A woman known only as Goody drifts into a colonial New England forest after getting lost looking for berries for her domineering...
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Laird Hunt. Bloomsbury, $26 (176p) ISBN 978-1-63557-536-1
Hunt (In the House in the Dark of the Woods) documents an unremarkable life in this compassionate outing. Though the elderly farmer Zorrie Underwood is in failing health and near the end of her life, she continues working the fields as she has for...
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Laird Hunt. Bloomsbury, $26.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-63973-010-0
Hunt’s amiable collection of 14 interconnected character studies (after Zorrie) is set over the course of one day in the early 1980s. The connective tissue of the stories, each of which is titled after its protagonist, is the characters’ Indiana...
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