Michael Sledge, Author . Columbia Univ. $35 (376p) ISBN 978-0-231-13514-6
This is not a book for the faint of heart; Sledge's subject, from which he does not stray far throughout this dense work, is battlefield death and what becomes of soldiers' corpses. He presents a deeply researched, detailed history that...
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Michael Sledge, Author . Counterpoint $15.95 (328p) ISBN 978-1-58243-576-3
In his first novel, memoirist Sledge (Mother and Son
) imagines the life of poet Elizabeth Bishop and her lover, socialite and architect Lota de Macedo Soares, while they lived together in Brazil during the 1950s and '60s. Both women struggle...
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Michael Sledge, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-81064-5
Sledge, an editor of environmental and scientific documents, recalls his Texas childhood in this sensitive account. The middle child of five, Sledge was deeply affected when his father left their Houston home to marry another woman. As did his...
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