Mylene Dressler, Author . Putnam $23.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-399-15163-7
Midway through Dressler's third novel (after The Medusa Tree
and The Deadwood Beetle
), narrator Harry Buelle, the frustrated gay son of Dee Buelle, a famous Southern playwright, recalls his own first production, a one-act play in graduate...
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Mylene Dressler, Author MacAdam/Cage Publishing $18.5 (176p) ISBN 978-1-878448-75-0
Two stories--past and present--vie uncomfortably for attention in this slim volume. Narrator Marget, 22, has come, at the behest of her mother, to Northern California to check up on her two ""grandmothers,"" Fan and Gerda. Marget's got more on her...
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Mylene Dressler, Author Blue Hen Books $23.95 (226p) ISBN 978-0-399-14805-7
This European-flavored novel Dressler's second, after The Medusa Tree tells, in a taut and occasionally elliptical first-person voice, the story of entomologist Tristan Martens, who has devoted his adult life to the study of beetles, the ""janitor
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