Nicholas Montemarano, Author . Louisiana State Univ. $16.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-8071-3122-0
Montemarano plays with the purpose and effect of storytelling in his dark, powerful debut collection (after A Fine Place
) even as he crafts believably troubled psyches. The unreliable narrators of these 11 first-person stories are haunted by...
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Nicholas Montemarano. Little, Brown, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-18847-0
Everything happens for a reason—except when it doesn’t. This is the premise of Montemarano’s (If the Sky Falls) quasi-philosophical second novel, which asks the question: why doesn’t it? Too-aptly-named life coach Eric Newborn cuts himself off from...
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Nicholas Montemarano, Author . Context $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-893956-21-6
The sensational 1989 murder of a black teen-ager in Brooklyn provides the background for Montemarano's first novel, a kaleidoscopic picture of a family and a community still living with loss, pain, anger and guilt. The mundane routines of Vera...
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Nicholas Montemarano. Tin House (Norton, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (376p) ISBN 978-1-941040-79-9
In the extravagant latest from Montemarano (The Book of Why), charismatic Pennsylvania senator David Christie has a brief affair while campaigning for president, and the exposed liaison forces him to quit the political scene. Stakes are further...
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