Michael Mewshaw, Author . Blue Hen $23.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-399-14988-7
Mewshaw's ninth novel is a timely, stylish international thriller set in an anarchic fictional republic in Central Asia. Zack McClintock's wife died during his second tour in Vietnam, leaving him to raise their infant daughter, Adrienne,...
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Michael Mewshaw, Author . Putnam $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-15221-4
Mewshaw (Shelter from the Storm
,
etc.) carves out a piece of Florida retirement turf for this leisurely thriller, in which a crippled ex-con and his widower neighbor join forces to become unlikely partners in crime. "Not your usual SMOPs, the...
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Michael Mewshaw, Author . Unbridled $23.95 (225p) ISBN 978-1-932961-20-1
Mewshaw records the eerie, somewhat manipulative tale of being forced back into his personal experience of giving up a child for adoption. "Amy," an adopted woman seeking her biological parents, comes to Mewshaw, thinking that he is her...
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Michael Mewshaw, Author . Other Press $14.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59051-318-7
Mewshaw (Year of the Gun
) tackles a dysfunctional Irish-American family in an emotional novel narrated by the three adult children: 60-year-old Candy, who reluctantly cares for their manipulative and gravely ill mother; the Asperger's-afflicted
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Michael Mewshaw, Author Atheneum Books $18.95 (234p) ISBN 978-0-689-12006-0
Mewshaw ( Short Circuit , Year of the Gun , etc.) here gives the reader a hodgepodge tour of his life as an American expatriate resident in Rome. Although falling under the category of travel literaturevignettes of Marrakech, the French Rivera and...
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Michael Mewshaw, Author Atheneum Books $16.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-689-11837-1
Mewshaw's well-received nonfiction account of professional tennis, Short Circuit, is transformed here into a biting satire. John McEnroe figures prominently in the plot, and other famous faces make cameo appearances, few evading Mewshaw's...
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Michael Mewshaw, Author Poseidon Press $19.45 (288p) ISBN 978-0-671-73204-2
An accomplished writer of both fiction and nonfiction, Mewshaw ( Playing Away ) again displays his storytelling talent in this tale about Thomas Heller Jr. a writer of ``true crime'' who specializes in murders that occur within families. A call from
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Michael Mewshaw, Author Crown Publishers $22 (327p) ISBN 978-0-517-58758-4
Beneath the seductive surface of women's tennis, with its glamour, fame and money, there are less appealing aspects, which Mewshaw ( Short Circuit ) exposes in this revealing study. Following the tradition begun by Tracy Austin and Andrea Jaeger,...
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Michael Mewshaw. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-28048-2
In this memoir about his friendship with Gore Vidal, Mewshaw (Lying with the Dead) proposes to offer a “corrective portrait” that will reveal the vulnerability beneath the legendary writer’s legendary hauteur. To be sure, Vidal was known for his...
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Michael Mewshaw, Author, Michael Meshaw, Author . Louisiana State Univ. $29.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8071-2852-7
Here's an author's nightmare: in 1977, as a young novelist, Mewshaw published an interview with Graham Greene. Mewshaw had a passing acquaintance with Greene and based the highly flattering piece on past conversation and the interview. After
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Michael Mewshaw. Counterpoint, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-1-64009-149-8
At heart, this fascinating memoir from Mewshaw (Sympathy for the Devil) of his friendship with the late novelist Pat Conroy is a love story. The two men found in each other a confidant and sympathetic soul with similar fears and scars born of...
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