Lawrence Thornton, Author . Free Press $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6007-7
Jack Malone, who is revealed as the inspiration for Joseph Conrad's Marlow, narrates this evocative, metafictional novel about honor, the sea and authorial integrity. The story revolves around a naval encounter between a British minesweeper and...
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Lawrence Thornton, Author Doubleday Books $16.95 (214p) ISBN 978-0-385-24027-7
This astonishingly proficient and gripping first novel should be required reading for anyone who calls him or herself a responsible citizen. Not only is it masterfully written, with images as sharp as shards of broken glass, but it also carries a...
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Lawrence Thornton, Author Doubleday Books $18.95 (212p) ISBN 978-0-385-24706-1
Thornton's ( Imagining Argentina ) distinctive gift as a novelist--his ability to compellingly evoke the era of which he writes and to create characters whose lives epitomize a critical period of history--is again manifestly evident in this work,...
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Lawrence Thornton, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (302p) ISBN 978-0-395-61592-8
Based on a Native American legend of a solitary, apparation-like woman who once roamed the California coast, Thornton's ( Imagining Argentina ) deeply felt but overly schematic new novel tells the story of Sage, a Chumash Indian woman, and her...
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Lawrence Thornton, Author Doubleday Books $22.95 (257p) ISBN 978-0-385-47552-5
Thornton burst upon the literary scene in 1987 with his incandescent novel, Imagining Argentina, a surreal evocation of the people who were disappeared by the totalitarian military regime during Argentina's ``Dirty War.'' While this sequel does not...
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Lawrence Thornton, Author Doubleday Books $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-48010-9
The brutality of the civil war years in Argentina continues to reverberate through the country's consciousness in Thornton's third novel (Imagining Argentina; Naming the Spirits) about the people who ""disappeared"" during the military dictatorship.
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