Books by Robert Vivian and Complete Book Reviews

Robert Vivian, Author . Univ. Nebraska $24.95 (150p) ISBN 978-0-8032-4670-6
Each of these vivid essays probes the mystery of encounter, that is, the impermanence of what our five senses tell us, despite the constancy of memory. Vivian, a playwright and poet whose work has appeared in Columbia Poetry Review and New York...
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Robert Vivian, Author . Univ. of Nebraska $22.95 (185p) ISBN 978-0-8032-1380-7
The Lamb Bright Saviors of Vivian’s stark latest (after The Mover of Bones ) are four damaged man-boys chosen by a terminally ill itinerant preacher named Mr. Gene to witness his death at the house of a blind woman in a small Nebraska town...
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Robert Vivian, Author University of Nebraska Press $23.95 (159p) ISBN 978-0-8032-4679-9
A young girl's murder frames Vivian's (Cold Snap as Yearning) intriguingly told narrative. Jesse Breedlove, a troubled 35-year-old janitor, digs up a murdered girl's bones in a church cellar in Omaha, Nebr., and flees with the remains. His flight...
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Robert Vivian, Univ. of Nebraska, $13.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-0-8032-1107-0
A pair of troubled brothers become engaged in a fateful showdown in an apocalyptic vision drawn from the Book of Revelations in Vivian's grim latest (after Lamb Bright Saviors). The novel shifts among the points of view of three characters: Jackson,
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Robert Vivian. Univ. of Nebraska, $18.95 trade paper (248p) ISBN 978-0-8032-3806-0
A meditation on the innumerable manifestations of loss, Vivian’s melodramatic new novel (after The Mover of Bones) opens on Dark Vespers, Neb., one year after the death of 17-year-old Kelsey Little. Since her body was recovered from the Sicangu...
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