Michele Roberts, Author . Holt $23 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6700-2
Traditional British storytelling expertise merges with the peculiarly French appreciation for sensual pleasures in the work of novelist Roberts, who lives in both countries and is a bestselling writer in England.
Her 11th novel, the second to be...
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Michele Roberts, Author . Holt $23 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7440-6
In her 12th novel, the Booker shortlisted Roberts (The Looking Glass) presents two London writer-sisters in their early 50s locked in a slow-motion love triangle. The more practical Catherine, whom Roberts makes pointedly slim, teaches part time at...
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Michele Roberts, Author Pegasus Books $13.95 (229p) ISBN 978-1-933648-02-6
Roberts exhibits a jaunty sense of the absurd in her winking 12th novel, which follows the capers of Aurora, a suspiciously thrice-widowed Brit who takes a holiday in Padenza, Italy, following the death of her third husband. At the invitation of her
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Michele Roberts, Author Ecco Press $24 (308p) ISBN 978-0-88001-597-4
British novelist and poet Roberts reminds us of the double meaning of passion--both suffering and rapture--in her latest novel, which suggests that mortal women might deserve sainthood for seizing the sensory and spiritual world, with Epicurean...
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Michele Roberts, Author William Morrow & Company $18 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-04610-1
Shortlisted for the Booker and winner of the W. H. Smith prize for the best book of 1992, Roberts's richly atmospheric novel (her first to appear here) is a mesmerizing tale of adolescent rivalry, adult deception and a secret involving betrayal and...
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Michele Roberts, Author, Michle Roberts, Author Pegasus Books $13.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-933648-56-9
Inspired by the Nag Hammadi gospels, Roberts (Reader, I Married Him) has imagined a Gnostic gospel according to Mary Magdalene. Her Mary is a composite of three women mentioned in the biblical gospels, and she tells many of the same stories, albeit...
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Michèle Roberts. Bloomsbury, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-1-60819-771-2
The parochial prejudices of two provincial towns, Ste.-Marie and Ste.-Madeleine, and by extension France itself, are brilliantly revealed in this uncompromising novel of WWII ignominy and grief from Roberts, whose novel, Daughters of the House, was...
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