Nancy Huston, Author . Steerforth $22 (240p) ISBN 978-1-58642-028-4
It is a truism that an author is the god of the universe he or she creates, and it must be tempting for a novelist to make the leap from omniscient narrator to Omniscient Narrator. Huston succumbs to this temptation in her ninth novel (her third...
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Nancy Huston, Author . Steerforth $14 (226p) ISBN 978-1-58642-014-7
Originally published in Canada in 1993, this moody novel may be most notable for the number of embedded clauses Huston (Mark of the Angel) strings together in her marathon-length sentences. A poignant and often tragic tale of hard times and abuse...
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Nancy Huston, Author . Grove/Black Cat $14 (307p) ISBN 978-0-8021-7051-4
Winner of France's Prix Femina and shortlisted for the Orange Prize, Huston's 12th novel captures four generations of a family and examines the decades-long fallout of a dark family secret. The novel proceeds in reverse chronological order
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Nancy Huston, Author Steerforth Press $21 (215p) ISBN 978-1-883642-64-8
Drenched in irony, and very French in sensibility, Huston's U.S. debut must overcome an unfortunate beginning before it gallops away with the reader's mesmerized attention--but once underway, it fascinates with its blend of cynicism and romance, and
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Nancy Huston, Author Steerforth Press $19 (200p) ISBN 978-1-883642-63-1
Canadian-born Huston relocated permanently to Paris at age 20, married literary and cultural critic Tzvetan Todorov, raised two children and has published many nonfiction books and seven novels (Steerforth issued The Mark of the Angel here with...
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Nancy Huston, trans. from the French by the author. Grove/Black Cat, $14 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2027-4
Huston’s exceptional new novel (after the Prix Femina Award–winning Fault Lines) chronicles a weeklong Italian trip taken by photographer Rena Greenblatt to celebrate her father’s 70th birthday. Trouble brews early when two teenagers are...
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Nancy Huston. Grove/Black Cat, $15 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2271-1
A scathing story that examines the terror and loss of identity, Huston's (Fault Lines) vivisection of the human condition is both philosophically rich and emotionally satisfying. Dying screenwriter Milo Noirlac tells his life story to his film...
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