Mark Slouka, Author . Knopf $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-375-40216-6
Siamese twins Chang and Eng, who caused a sensation 160 years ago, when they were exhibited by P.T. Barnum, still hold a mysterious fascination—Slouka's version of their story is the second novel dedicated to their vicissitudes in the...
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Mark Slouka, Author . Houghton Mifflin $24 (242p) ISBN 978-0-618-75643-8
Slouka's urgent second novel (following God's Fool
) comes in three parts. The first relates the nameless narrator's growing up in postwar New York and Pennsylvania as the child of college journalism instructor Antonín and Ivana...
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Mark Slouka, Graywolf, $16 trade paper (194p) ISBN 978-1-55597-571-5
Citing E.B. White's comment on Thoreau, Harper's contributing editor Slouka describes his efforts, as Thoreau did, to navigate the impulse to both celebrate and fix the world. The essays in this powerful collection are divided into two sections: the
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Mark Slouka, Author Alfred A. Knopf $21 (192p) ISBN 978-0-375-40215-9
""A particular forty acres of water,"" a peaceful, manmade lake not far outside New York City, connects these 12 poignant short stories and the vital, multigenerational cast of characters inhabiting them. A narrator named Mostovsky (we never learn...
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Mark Slouka, Author Basic Books $20 (208p) ISBN 978-0-465-00486-7
As millions of computer users plug into the Internet, access online services, play computer simulation games and explore virtual realities, abstract communication replaces firsthand experience, entertainment becomes mere spectatorship and ordinary...
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Mark Slouka. Norton, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-23975-1
A simmering rage coupled with world-weary angst grip the four teenagers growing up as friends in Slouka’s (Lost Lake) hardscrabble novel, set in the small blue-collar town of Brewster, N.Y., where the author grew up. Jon Mosher—once a scholarship-win
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Mark Slouka. Norton, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-393-29230-5
Madness, war, persecution, and suburban anomie warp a family in this sometimes grim, sometimes luminous memoir. Novelist Slouka (Brewster) is the son of Czechs who survived wartime German occupation, then fled the Communist regime to settle in the U.
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Mark Slouka. Norton, $24.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-393-34883-5
This collection from Slouka (Brewster) features variations on the theme of encroaching death in 15 disquieting, sharply compressed short stories. Sometimes that feared death is that of the hero, as in “Dominion,” in which a retired journalist is...
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