Books by Lisa Tucker and Complete Book Reviews
Lisa Tucker, Author . Pocket/Downtown $12 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7434-6445-1
Tucker's assured debut novel is an achingly tender narrative about grief, love, madness and crippling family secrets. Preteen Leeann Norris introduces readers to her world: recently orphaned when her mother was killed in a car accident, she...
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Lisa Tucker, Author . Downtown $13 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7434-6446-8
Tucker's follow-up to her BookSense bestseller, The Song Reader
, is even more commercially appealing, thanks to a ratcheted-up suspense angle that still allows for well-drawn, emotionally nuanced characters. Once again, music is the motivating...
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Lisa Tucker, Author . Atria $24 (342p) ISBN 978-0-7434-9277-5
Tucker's outstanding novel (after Shout Down the Moon
) is as structurally dextrous as it is emotionally satisfying, boasting a chorus of extraordinary voices and assured parallel plot lines separated by four decades. In the present day, 23-year-
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Lisa Tucker, Author . Atria $24.95 (326p) ISBN 978-0-7434-9279-9
Tucker offers a cure for modern readers seeking an enjoyable literary page-turner that also explores serious social issues such as addiction, ethics and genetics. Tucker's fourth and most ambitious novel (following Once Upon a Day
) is her first to...
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Lisa Tucker, Author . Atria $25 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4165-7538-2
Engrossing and suspenseful, Tucker’s remarkable fourth novel (after The Cure for Modern Life
) unveils the motives behind the curious behavior and superfluous lies of unusually close-knit fraternal twins. Brilliant but mercurial Billy Cole,...
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Lisa Tucker, Author, Scott Brick, Read by , read by Scott Brick. Brilliance Audio $36.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-4883-2
Scott Brick doesn't have to do a lot of vocal calisthenics to bring Tucker's compelling story line to life. The award-winning narrator knows he need only adjust his tone and timbre ever-so-slightly to distinguish the novel's numerous...
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Lisa Tucker, Author, Joyce Bean, Read by , read by Joyce Bean. Brilliance Audio $38.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-1050-1
Tucker's complexly structured novel could be a tight wire act for a reader because the story has multiple narrators and follows two compelling story lines separated by almost two decades. Fortunately, Bean is a dexterous performer who is more...
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