Sandra Jean Scofield, Author . Norton $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-05735-5
Scofield's account of her childhood and teenage years will ring familiar with many readers. Although the book is framed by a specific time (the 1950s and '60s) and place (West Texas), its themes—of wanting to be a perfect daughter, of...
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Sandra Jean Scofield, Author Permanent Press (NY) $28 (267p) ISBN 978-0-932966-85-8
Set in Mexico City in 1968, a time when protesting students are being brutally corraled, jailed and abused, this provocative though uneven first novel uses background as a paradigm of character. Several of the female characters are typical victims...
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Sandra Jean Scofield, Author Permanent Press (NY) $22 (247p) ISBN 978-1-877946-12-7
Basin, in West Texas, is the setting of Scofield's impressive third novel, following the American Book Award-winning, NBA nominee Beyond Deserving . Here she draws a finely etched, sensitive portrait of an intelligent, imaginative but flawed young...
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Sandra Jean Scofield, Author Permanent Press (NY) $28 (310p) ISBN 978-1-877946-07-3
Scofield ( Gringa ) depicts the complex relationships connecting 45-year-old twin brothers, Fish and Michael, in Oregon with their wives and children and their parents, who are celebrating 50 years of marriage. Fish, a mercurial, alcoholic carpenter
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Sandra Jean Scofield, Author Permanent Press (NY) $24 (176p) ISBN 978-1-877946-32-5
As she previously demonstrated in Beyond Deserving and Walking Dunes , Scofield offers trenchant but understated studies of human relationships that touch the heart as well as the intellect. Here two mothers, Dulce Quirarte and Maggie Jarrett, and...
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Sandra Jean Scofield, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-017343-2
Returning to the setting that served her so well in Gringa (1989), Scofield augments her literary reputation with a heartfelt, elegiac story about a newly widowed man who journeys to Mexico to assuage his grief and emerges with a surprising new love.
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Sandra Jean Scofield, Author Plume Books $11.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-452-26907-1
Scofield depicts the complex relationships connecting 45-year-old twin brothers, Fish and Michael, in Oregon with their wives and children and their parents, who are celebrating 50 years of marriage. This QPB selection was a National Book Award...
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Sandra Jean Scofield, Author Plume Books $9.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-452-27306-1
Scofield's novel tells of the friendship between two women from broken families in rural Oregon. (Nov.)
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Sandra Jean Scofield, Author Villard Books $20 (279p) ISBN 978-0-679-42397-3
Once again probing the problems of women in fractured families, Scofield offers in her fifth novel (after More Than Allies ) a compromised version of the depth and compassion she showed in her earlier books. The center of this three-generation saga...
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