Books by Stephen O'Connor and Complete Book Reviews
Stephen O'Connor, Free Press, $16 paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-4391-8199-7
The impossibility of balancing desire and its fulfillment lies at the center of many of these inventive stories. They range from fabulistic to realistic, and the best ones retain a vague fealty to reality, though the alternate worlds visited are...
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Stephen O'Connor, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $27 (384p) ISBN 978-0-395-84173-0
From 1854 to 1929, an estimated 250,000 children were ""emigrated"" out of ""vice-ridden"" urban areas and put up for grabs in the West, where labor was in short supply. Brace (1826-1890) educated himself for the ministry, but under the influence of
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Stephen O'Connor. Viking, $28 (624p) ISBN 978-0-525-42996-8
O'Connor (Orphan Trains) delves with great acuity and depth into the mind of Thomas Jefferson, who required sexual intimacy from Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman, for nearly 40 years. Interweaving contemporary documents, narrative, fable, and...
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Stephen O'Connor, Author, Stephen O'Conner, Author Harmony $17.95 (180p) ISBN 978-0-517-57203-0
This first collection of 12 short stories has a certain intellectual appeal that may compensate for its lack of emotional vigor. O'Connor's artificial prose is most jarring in ``Dad; or the Builder of Bridges,'' a Stanley Elkin-like tall tale about...
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