Mary Flanagan, Author W. W. Norton & Company $22 (245p) ISBN 978-0-393-04547-5
The bizarre erotic life of a beautiful freak is revealed through the clouded memories of an elderly Englishwoman in this audacious and imaginative novel, the fifth fictional work from Flanagan (The Blue Woman). The narrative begins in 1990s London...
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Mary Flanagan, Author Holiday House $17.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-689-11986-6
In an auspicious opening section, first novelist Flanagan sketches a hectic portrait of Eleanor Linnane, denied by her eccentric, brutish artist ex-husband Jason Englefield visitation rights to her beloved stepdaughter, his daughter Clover....
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Mary Flanagan, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $23.95 (388p) ISBN 978-0-15-179015-9
In this uneven confessional novel, narrator Frances Mullen traces her life story from her Catholic girlhood in a Maine mill town to her bohemian existence in 1960s Manhattan to the English boarding house where she now works as a maid. After her...
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Mary Flanagan, Author Atheneum Books $12.95 (237p) ISBN 978-0-689-11593-6
In this first collection of eight stories, the lavishly named Amaryllis in ""A View of Manhattan'' is one of the ``bad girls'' in a loose assembly running from plain to naughty to really quite wicked. She is involved in a short-lived resumption of...
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Mary Flanagan, Author W. W. Norton & Company $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-03803-3
Flanagan's (Trust; Rose Reason) second collection of short stories (after Bad Girls) bursts with insight about male-female relations, women growing older and the small dramas that affect us all. In unflaggingly crisp, witty prose that displays a...
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