Scott Bradfield, Author . Carroll & Graf $13.95 (213p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1576-3
Bradfield (Good Girl Wants It Bad
) hopes to elevate "interspecies harassment" to high art in this collection of allegorical stories, most of which have animals for protagonists. But like a dog that won't stop barking, these stories echo
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Scott Bradfield, Author . Two Dollar Radio $14.50 (146p) ISBN 978-0-9820151-5-5
Though Bradfield's fifth novel has the premise of a thriller or a dark psychological study, it flips reader expectations with deadpan irony. At three years old, Sal Jensen is kidnapped by “the man who fixed the hot water heater.”...
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Scott Bradfield, Author Vintage Books USA $11 (239p) ISBN 978-0-679-73638-7
Idiosyncratic stories of the mental predicaments of several Southern Californians, one an intellectual dog. (Feb.)
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Scott Bradfield, Author Knopf Publishing Group $17.95 (274p) ISBN 978-0-394-57875-0
In his first novel, Bradfield composes a verbal fantasia on the theme of a young felon's confused feelings and reckless misdeeds. Phillip is seven years old and psychologically all but immured within his mother, a sort of wastrel saint, containing ``
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Scott Bradfield, Author Alfred A. Knopf $19 (239p) ISBN 978-0-394-58213-9
``I don't think you can ever get to know me really well unless you understand I happen to be a very mind-oriented sort of person,'' proclaims a character in one of 13 stories collected here. The life of the mind, a rather moribund life played out in
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Scott Bradfield, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (196p) ISBN 978-0-312-11349-0
Trapped in a marriage that she calls ``forty-five years of servile misery,'' 68-year-old Emma O'Hallahan takes an unusual step--she shoots her husband in the head with a 12-gauge shotgun. So begins this satire of contemporary American society, set...
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Scott Bradfield, Author Picador USA $22 (231p) ISBN 978-0-312-13428-0
Comparisons to Animal Farm may inevitably trail this novel, but this arch fable offers neither the political complexity nor the biting social satire of Orwell's classic. Instead, the narrative wanders uneasily between farce and social criticism,...
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Scott Bradfield, Author Picador USA $13 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14088-5
Bradfield (What's Wrong With America) is an acutely--sometimes painfully--unsentimental chronicler of our times in these inventive short stories. Only eight of these stories are new to publication, but all are startling and effective. Bradfield...
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Scott Bradfield, Author, Robin Desser, Editor Vintage Books USA $11 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-72943-3
``In his first novel, Bradfield composes a verbal fantasia on the theme of a young felon's confused feelings and reckless misdeeds.'' A psychotic seven-year-old and his mother drift around California, murdering and thieving. This ``offers the fruits
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