Mark Richard, Doubleday/Talese, $23.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-51302-9
In this fascinating memoir, novelist Richard (Fishboy) details a life that led him from a lurid South to the gray streets of New York City. Born with deformities that left him nearly crippled, Richard suffered medical procedures that would have done
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Mark Richard, Author Anchor Books $12.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-385-41544-6
An abandoned boy with fish-like features stows away on a trawler manned by a deranged crew of outcasts and oddities. (June)
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Mark Richard, Author Nan A. Talese $19.95 (227p) ISBN 978-0-385-42560-5
Seafaring lore finds a macabre new context in this debut novel, a surreal tale of shipboard grotesques in mortal struggle. Protagonist Fishboy, an abandoned child with fish-like eyes and a whistling lisp, shucks mollusks in a squalid cannery where...
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Mark Richard, Author Nan A. Talese $19.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-385-42562-9
The desperation and loneliness of poverty-mired and dead-end lives are reflected with pathos or shocking black humor in Richard's second collection of 10 short stories (the first was the PEN/Hemingway Award-winning Ice at the Bottom of the World)....
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Mark Richard, Author, Gordon Lish, Editor Knopf Publishing Group $16.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-394-56485-2
In lush language and varied voice, Richard gives life to a small world in these 10 stories filled with humor, heartbreak, love and its loss. His people are beyond the fringe of ordinary society, disenfranchised in their souls if not the reality of...
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