Nicola Barker, Author . Ecco $27.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-06-018569-5
Wesley is not, on the outside, the most prepossessing of men. He is a tramp with a mangled hand, a penchant for attacking sea-fowl and an admiration for the profundities of Alvin Toffler. However, he has a magnetic effect on people. As he pads about
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Nicola Barker, Author . Ecco $14.95 (346p) ISBN 978-0-06-079757-7
With her fresh, confident sophomore novel (after Behindlings)
, Barker offers a meditation on illusionist David Blaine's feat of self-starvation—44 days spent suspended in a clear box above the Thames River. Analytical narrator Adie, a...
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Nicola Barker, Author Harper Perennial $16.99 (848p) ISBN 978-0-06-157521-1
There isn't much plot to Barker's Man Booker-shortlisted novel (after Clear and Behindlings), but a cast of eccentric characters, a torrent of inventive prose and an irresistible synthesis of wickedly humorous and unsettlingly supernatural elements...
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Nicola Barker, Author Ecco Press $23.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-88001-632-2
Barker is a young, award-winning English writer barely known here (her Love Your Enemies is nominally available from Faber), who has now been taken on by enterprising Ecco. She is a highly offbeat writer, weaving a strange tale of abandonment and...
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Nicola Barker, Author Ecco Press $23 (216p) ISBN 978-0-88001-677-3
The British author of three novels (Wide Open, etc.) and two collections of short stories (Heading Inland [1983] and Love Your Enemies, both of which contribute stories to this volume), Barker has a demonstrated penchant (a fondness, even) for...
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Nicola Barker, Author Faber & Faber $19.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-571-16769-2
Surreal, fresh, funny and very British in its oddball humor, London-based writer Barker's debut story collection portrays people confronting personal crises and the strangeness of the universe. The best of these tales anchor supernatural elements in
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Nicola Barker. Holt, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-62779-719-1
Barker's (Darkmans) antic, irreverent historical novel examines the life of real-life spiritual leader Sri Ramakrishna (1836–1886). The book takes a nonchronological approach to biography, jumping from point to point and leaving the reader to hang...
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