Shena MacKay, Author Moyer Bell $16.95 (190p) ISBN 978-1-55921-070-6
Fay Weldon fans and a host of other readers will cheer lauded British writer Mackay's U.S. debut with this brisk and perfectly targeted probe of the tangled lives of an English family. Handsome and self-absorbed Rex Beaumont, renowned since the...
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Shena MacKay, Author Moyer Bell $21.95 (341p) ISBN 978-1-55921-093-5
Although her richly lyrical seventh novel lacks a real unifying perspective, Mackay's ( A Bowl of Cherries ) characters and her descriptions of their lives in South-east London are often moving and poetic. The bulk of her story takes place in...
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Shena MacKay, Author Moyer Bell $19.95 (159p) ISBN 978-1-55921-211-3
Mackay's star has been rising here after fine reviews for last year's Booker nominee, The Orchard on Fire. This early novel, published in England in 1971, also displays the supple economy of her prose, a style that accommodates a constant play of...
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Shena MacKay, Author Moyer Bell $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55921-175-8
It's always a puzzle when a writer as talented as Londoner Shena Mackay remains virtually unknown on these shores, but her comparative obscurity here, despite rave reviews for A Bowl of Cherries and her short-story collection, Dreams of Dead Women's
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Shena MacKay, Author Moyer Bell $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-55921-247-2
Londoner Mackay's brilliant collection of stories about life's odd pots should add to her reputation as a brilliant satirist of social behavior. The 11 stories about life's lost souls and losers, scarred by drink, money, power or any number of other
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Shena MacKay, Author Moyer Bell $21.95 (170p) ISBN 978-1-55921-229-8
Few writers are as adept as Mackay (The Orchard on Fire ) in summing up temperament, appearance and motivation in the space of one spare, stunning sentence. Here her gimlet eye focuses on a dozen London characters whose relationship to Lyris Crane,...
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Shena MacKay, Author, MacKay, Author Mariner Books $17.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-15-600532-6
The celebrated London novelist's portrait of a young girl coming of age in a 1950s English village is published in conjuction with a collection of 31 stories with titles like ""Pink Cigarettes"" and ""Other People's Bathrobes."" (Nov.)
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