Samantha Hunt, Author . Houghton Mifflin $24 (257p) ISBN 978-0-618-80112-1
In Hunt’s (The Seas
) overstuffed and uneven novel set in New York, circa 1943, an aging Nikola Tesla lives at the Hotel New Yorker and cares for (and chats with) pigeons while planning what could be his boldest invention yet. He forges an...
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Samantha Hunt. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-544-52670-9
Hunt’s ethereal third novel (after Orange Prize–finalist The Invention of Everything Else) is a nod to the mid-19th-century legend of the Fox sisters, mediums who conjured up a devilish spirit they called Mr. Splitfoot in order to separate the...
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Samantha Hunt. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $15 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-28213-4
In her first collection, Hunt (Mr. Splitfoot) explores various relationships between women and men; the dead and the undead (literally and metaphorically); and lust, longing, and loneliness in 10 stories designed to jolt and beguile. In “Cortés the...
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Samantha Hunt. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-0-374-60491-2
Novelist Hunt (The Dark Dark) scours literature for “alphabets and signs” of the dead in her stirring nonfiction debut. As she writes, “The dead leave clues, and life is a puzzle of trying to read and understand these mysterious hints before the...
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