Maggie Shipstead. Knopf, $25.95 (299p) ISBN 978-0307599469
Vibrant prose and moments of keen insight lighten an otherwise lackluster debut in this comedy of manners set during the days preceding a wedding. Daphne Van Meter is getting married at her family’s New England summerhouse, her advanced pregnancy a...
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Maggie Shipstead. Knopf, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-307-96290-4
Shipstead’s second novel (after Seating Arrangements), set mostly in California and New York in the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s, concerns Joan Joyce, a ballerina who abandons the dance world when she becomes pregnant. Early in her professional career, she
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Maggie Shipstead. Knopf, $28.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-525-65697-5
Shipstead (Seating Arrangements) returns with a breathtaking epic of a female aviator. In 1914, infant twins Marian and Jamie Graves are sent to their dissolute uncle in Montana after their mother dies. There, a married pair of barnstormers inspires
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Maggie Shipstead. Knopf, $27 (272p) ISBN 978-0-525-65699-9
The 10 stories in this daring, wide-ranging debut collection from Shipstead (after the novel Great Circle) resonate as they leap across time and space. “The Cowboy Tango,” set at a Montana dude ranch, cruises through several decades as the...
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