Scott Lasser, Author . Knopf $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-41325-4
HA bond trader's ardent pursuit of the American dream turns sour in this smartly written second novel by Lasser (Battle Creek). Fed up with his ski-bum existence in the mountains of Colorado, Dartmouth graduate Barry Schwartz decides to uproot...
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Scott Lasser, Author . Knopf $23 (241p) ISBN 978-0-307-27119-8
A daughter and her father navigate “the year that follows” September 11, revealing secrets and healing old wounds in this slightly higher-brow Nicholas Sparksian melodrama. Single mother Cat searches for the orphaned child of her brother,
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Scott Lasser, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-688-16785-1
""Cigarettes and baseball. These are not unusual vices,"" thinks one of the middle American, late middle-aged characters in Lasser's powerful novel of thwarted lives. A bleak metaphor for middle-class dreams, the story imagines the defining effect...
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Scott Lasser. Norton, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-08299-9
Detroit is autumnal in this quietly moving novel of place; the heyday, the riots, the collapse have already happened, and the city is sinking quietly. There is still tension, but behind it is a sense of emptiness and ending. David Halpert, returning
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