Steven Galloway, Author . Carroll & Graf $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1208-3
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Steven Galloway, Author Riverhead Books $21.95 (231p) ISBN 978-1-59448-986-0
Canadian Galloway (Ascension) delivers a tense and haunting novel following four people trying to survive war-torn Sarajevo. After a mortar attack kills 22 people waiting in line to buy bread, an unnamed cellist vows to play at the point of impact...
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Steven Galloway, Author Raincoast Books $13.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-55192-372-7
Two fundamentals must be mastered in any successful sports novel: one is a penetrating knowledge of the sport in question; the other is skillful characterization. Galloway exhibits the former in spades, but the latter is less evident in his...
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Steven Galloway. Riverhead, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59463-196-2
From the author of The Cellist of Sarajevo comes this colorful but hard-to-swallow reimagining of Harry Houdini’s life and death. The book opens with narrator Martin Strauss asserting, “I didn’t just kill Harry Houdini. I killed him twice.” Strauss...
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Steven Galloway, read by Jason Culp. Dreamscape Media, , unabridged, library exclusive, eight CDs, 9.5 hrs. $59.99 ISBN 978-1-62923-638-4
“I didn’t just kill Harry Houdini. I killed him twice,” asserts Martin Strauss, the protagonist of Galloway’s latest novel. Strauss suffers from a rare and worsening condition that causes him to produce false memories and that will eventually...
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