Maria Flook, Author . Broadway $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7679-1374-4
In January 2002, 46-year-old fashion writer Crista Worthington was found stabbed to death on the floor of her cottage in Truro, Mass. Her curly-haired toddler, Ava, was nestled by her side. The murder traumatized Worthington's idyllic Cape Cod...
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Maria Flook, Author . Little, Brown $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-316-00092-5
An iconoclastic cast of Cape Cod year-rounders peoples Flook's moody, intelligent novel. Alden Warren works for the National Park Service, counts birds for the Massachusetts Audubon Society, volunteers for Meals on Wheels and daily mourns her...
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Maria Flook, Author Pantheon Books $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-679-44208-0
In 1964 when Flook was 12, her 14-year-old sister, Karen, ran away from their upper-middle-class home in the Wilmington, Del., suburbs, and fell into a life of prostitution and substance abuse. Soon, Flook herself became a drug-, alcohol- and risk-ta
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Maria Flook, Author Pantheon Books $21 (291p) ISBN 978-0-679-41647-0
In her fiction debut, Flook, the author of two poetry collections, produces finely wrought sentences, but her story falls flat. Heroine Margaret has, as the title implies, a dark relationship with her family, a tangle of step-siblings and ex-spouses.
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Maria Flook, Author Pantheon Books $24 (327p) ISBN 978-0-679-43183-1
Although it deals with pain and dying, this absorbing new novel by Flook (Reckless Wedding), with its three bedeviled protagonists, proves full of verve. Deliciously oddball Rennie Hopkins, a wraith with white hair flying, stockpiles a candy store's
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Maria Flook, Author Pantheon Books $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-43184-8
In her first collection of short stories, Flook (Open Water) draws an imaginative gallery of eccentrics placed in left-of-center situations. Yet even in a story such as ""The Golden Therapist,"" in which an office romance blooms after a woman...
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