Sarah Payne Stuart, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (244p) ISBN 978-0-06-017689-1
There is undeniable charm in a memoirist who is aware of his or her own failings and can render them plainly. This is the case with Stuart, who admittedly doesn't much ""get"" the poetry of her mother's famous first cousin--and doesn't much care to.
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Sarah Payne Stuart, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15.45 (209p) ISBN 978-0-06-015883-5
Stuart's ingratiating, offbeat first novel, set in the late 1960s, depicts the youth and college years of Lizzie Reade, a sassy girl whose older brothers suffer mental problems. Irreverently narrated by Lizzie herself, the story begins in the Reades'
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Sarah Payne Stuart, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-017079-0
This parody of an on-again, off-again marriage subsists for a while on its breezy prose style. But a repetitious plot twist--lovers meet; he has doubts and leaves; he can't live without her and returns, only to begin the whole process again--becomes
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Sarah Payne Stuart. Riverhead, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59463-181-8
A follow-up to Stuart's previous family memoir, My First Cousin Once Removed, this evenhanded work takes aim at her double-edged WASP childhood in Concord, Mass.—where she and her documentary-producer husband moved back to raise their three young...
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