Rosellen Brown, Author Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc $21 (384p) ISBN 978-0-374-10999-8
In what is arguably her best novel to date, Brown raises challenging issues in a dramatic and provocative context. Her questions--How well can parents know their children? How far should they go to protect them?--are framed in a powerful narrative...
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Rosellen Brown, Author Dell Publishing Company $8.3 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-21654-4
Brown's riveting novel about a family torn apart by a son's murder of his girlfriend--a six-week PW bestseller in cloth--scrutinizes ethical principles in crisis situations. (Sept.)
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Rosellen Brown, Author Unicorn Press (CA) $12.5 (100p) ISBN 978-0-87775-211-0
PW called this book ``a small wonder,'' observing that ``Brown's poetry touches human need and loneliness with awe, and the transient becomes palpable . . . . By the magic of understatement, shy indirections, the `word unspoken,' she transforms...
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Rosellen Brown, Author University Press of New England $35 (309p) ISBN 978-0-87451-575-6
Following her own ``first rule'' for writers--to ``steal from yourself relentlessly''--in this collection of poems, stories essays and one interview, Brown ( Tender Mercies ) practices the ``free movement across the borders of genres.'' A recurrent...
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Rosellen Brown, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (179p) ISBN 978-0-374-14402-9
This edition contains Cora Fry, first published in 1977, and a new sequel, Cora Fry's Pillow Book. In the original poem, a dramatic monologue narrated by Cora, a young mother and forbearing wife living in rural New Hampshire, Brown's language is as...
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Rosellen Brown, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $24 (401p) ISBN 978-0-374-29987-3
As she has amply proven throughout her distinguished career, Brown (Civil War; Before and After) tackles timeless, yet timely, moral issues with the insight and gravity of one who has been on the frontlines of social change. Here she returns to the...
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Rosellen Brown. Sarabande, $17.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-946448-23-1
In Brown’s stellar, evocative novel, Jewish siblings Chaya and Asher Shaderowsky move with their family to America from Ukraine to work on a Wisconsin collective farm. As a young woman in 1891, in order to escape an arranged marriage, Chaya flees...
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