Maureen Gibbon, Author . Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux $14 (182p) ISBN 978-0-374-27454-2
After placing a personal ad in the local paper, Suzanne, the narrator of Gibbon's abysmal latest (after Swimming Sweet Arrow
), is shocked and intrigued when she gets a response from an inmate. Having “always been interested in black...
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Maureen Gibbon, Author Little Brown and Company $21.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-30599-0
Evangeline Starr Raybuck is the young heroine who wades through the quagmire of a brutal, intense sexual coming of age in Gibbon's first novel, a catalogue of vice and neglect in rural Pennsylvania told in straightforward, sometimes graphic prose....
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Maureen Gibbon. Norton, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-393-24446-5
In this wonderful novel chronicling the life of one of painter Edouard Manet’s primary models, Gibbon (Thief) takes readers on a mesmerizing, erotic journey not only to another time and place but inside the mind of an artist. When we meet Victorine (
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Maureen Gibbon. Norton, $17.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-0-393-86715-2
Gibbon (Paris Red) offers a poignant evocation of impressionist master Édouard Manet’s final years. By Manet’s late 40s, the syphilis he’d contracted decades earlier has made devastating inroads into his comfort, energy, and mobility. In 1880, a...
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