Books by Paul Griner and Complete Book Reviews
Paul Griner, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $25 (308p) ISBN 978-0-547-05522-0
Griner's second novel (after Collectors
) is a gritty, unsentimental story of love and loyalty played out across Europe during the two World Wars. It begins with Kate Zweig, a nurse, working at a crumbling field hospital in Prussia with her...
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Paul Griner, Author Random House (NY) $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-44845-7
Cleverly dramatizing his own wry sense of karmic equilibrium, Griner crafts these 10 memorable stories of American life-set variously in cities, the burbs, the country and an expat stint in Portugal-into a wise, engaging meditation on...
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Paul Griner, Author Random House (NY) $19.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-679-44846-4
Think of Damage and other novels that lace tension with frightening sexual overtones, then add the advantage of literary style and assurance, and you have this mysterious, mesmerizing story of psychological suspense. We meet Griner's protagonist,...
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Paul Griner. Sarabande (Consortium, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (168p) ISBN 978-1-936747-95-5
In his second story collection, Griner (Follow Me) overlays tales of family, artistry, and parent-child relationships with elements of the surreal, in order to create, in the words of one character, “an undercurrent of mournfulness.” In “The...
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Paul Griner, Author, Anne T. Flosnik, Read by, Michael Page, Read by , read by Anne Flosnik and Michael Page. Brilliance $29.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-9199-9
For a novel with two main characters, logic dictates that each performer should take one of the leading roles to create a mini-cast production, but this audio proceeds the old-fashioned way, in tag-team style. Anne Flosnik, performing the first...
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