Books by Rick Collignon and Complete Book Reviews
Rick Collignon, Author . BlueHen $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-14921-4
Relying heavily on flashback, Collignon's final installment in his Guadalupe Trilogy (The Journal of Antonio Montoya; Perdido) takes place as a mysterious fire envelops the narrator's fictional New Mexico village. As a genre, magical realism
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Rick Collignon, Author . Unbridled $23.95 (213p) ISBN 978-1-932961-65-2
In this wheezy, melancholy tale, Collignon returns to the fictional New Mexico town of Guadalupe (from his previous novel, Perdido
), this time by way of a young woman named Rachael. Rachael grew up an orphan in South Cairo, Ill., and carries on a...
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Rick Collignon, Author MacAdam/Cage Publishing $19.5 (224p) ISBN 978-1-878448-76-7
Will Sawyer, the protagonist of this nimble and endearing novel, has lived in the New Mexican town of Guadalupe (the setting of Collington's well-received debut, The Journal of Antonio Montoya) for nearly 20 years. But it will take more than time to
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Rick Collignon, Author MacAdam/Cage Publishing $17 (271p) ISBN 978-1-878448-69-9
Ramona Montoya, the main character of this slight but beautifully written first novel set in a dusty, timeless Southwestern town, is a 44-year-old painter whose house is inhabited by a host of dead relatives who speak, make coffee and occasionally...
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Rick Collignon. Bower House, $17 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-942280-66-8
Collignon’s quietly atmospheric fourth entry in the Will Sawyer series (after Perdido) shifts between horror and magical realism for a story of crime in a remote New Mexico village. Will has lived for the past 30 years in Guadalupe and is still the...
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