Books by Richard Currey and Complete Book Reviews
Richard Currey, Author Dutton Books $16.95 (195p) ISBN 978-0-525-24622-0
Currey's debut novel is a powerfully written, haunting account of a young man's voyage to adulthood, confusion and alienation, beginning in America, taking us through his experiences in Vietnam and his return home. Apart from its honed lyricism,...
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Richard Currey, Author Penguin Books $10 (208p) ISBN 978-0-14-011945-9
``Currey's debut novel is a powerfully written, haunting account of a young man's voyage to adulthood, confusion and alienation, beginning in America, taking us through his experiences in Vietnam and his return home. . . . This is a stunning...
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Richard Currey, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $18.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-395-50227-3
In short fiction as American as apple pie, Currey ( Fatal Light ) renders a series of exquisitely melancholy images of small-town life. Emptiness and loss reverberate across the desolate West Virginia landscapes of these working-class lives. Set in...
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Richard Currey, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22 (258p) ISBN 978-0-395-52102-1
The new novel by the much-praised Currey (Fatal Light; The Wars of Heaven) is as eloquently piercing and deeply American as a classic folk ballad. In fact its first-person narrator, Sapper Reeves, is a West Virginian who learns to play the banjo as...
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Richard Currey, Author, LuAnn Walther, Editor Vintage Books USA $9 (160p) ISBN 978-0-679-73465-9
These six stories and a novella introduce working-class West Virginians, including a coal miner whose brother is killed in a mine explosion, a child who cares for his retarded little brother, an outlaw holed up in a church and a tragicomic circus...
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