Books by Michelle Huneven and Complete Book Reviews
Michelle Huneven, Author . Knopf $24 (400p) ISBN 978-0-375-41382-7
Like her critically acclaimed Round Rock, Huneven's sophomore effort explores a tightly knit community of troubled eccentrics. In the Los Angeles neighborhood of Los Feliz, a motley handful of residents attends Helen Harland's casual and...
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Michelle Huneven, Author . Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-11430-5
In this gripping tale, Huneven charts the parameters of guilt and how a young, wisecracking intellectual becomes a shadow of her former self. Patsy MacLemoore, a boozy history professor, is helping her boyfriend, Brice, take care of his niece, Joey,
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Michelle Huneven, Author Alfred A. Knopf $24 (296p) ISBN 978-0-679-45437-3
""Among the inhabitants of the Santa Bernita Valley, it is commonly believed that nothing there ever goes according to plan."" So begins this delightful, bittersweet first novel about three of the central California Valley's hapless inhabitants and...
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Michelle Huneven. FSG/Sarah Crichton, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-22447-9
For readers unfamiliar with Huneven’s previous novels, such as Blame, Cressida Hartley may seem at first like a romance heroine. When Cress moves temporarily into her family’s cabin in the Sierras in the early 1980s, ostensibly to finish her...
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Michelle Huneven. Penguin Press, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-0-593-30005-3
Huneven frames her bloated latest (following Off Course) as the second edition of restaurant critic and food writer Dana Potowski’s latest book, also titled Search, which documents a Southern California Unitarian Universalist church’s search for a...
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Michelle Huneven. Penguin Press, $29 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-83487-9
The Samuelson family stumbles through the extremes of love and loss in the intriguing if undercooked sixth novel from Huneven (Search). It begins in 1970s Northern California, when Ellis, a recent high school graduate, goes missing. He eventually...
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