Susan Trott, Author Riverhead Hardcover $18 (148p) ISBN 978-1-57322-057-6
""Being nice is good luck,"" explains Anna, a spirited Irish healer, to her five-year-old son. ""Why didn't I come up with that in all these years?"" laughs Joe, a 73-year-old holy man with advanced heart disease. Like last year's fable, The Holy...
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Susan Trott, Author HarperCollins Publishers $16.95 (239p) ISBN 978-0-06-015853-8
The author of The Housewife and the Assassin again reveals an indomitable spirit in a hunted, housebound woman. Maximiliana Bartha, the quirky protagonist of this tragicomic novel, believes that her estranged husband, an underworld figure, is...
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Susan Trott, Author Harper Perennial $6.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-097158-8
An 18-year-old in love with an international spy returns from Paris to find her family greatly changed. Dad has run off with her teenaged friend and Mom has gone off the deep end. ""Charming, touching and briskly told, this slim novel begins in...
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Susan Trott, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $17.95 (221p) ISBN 978-0-88184-626-3
Trott ( Sightings ) has won a reputation as a stylist, and among those whose tastes favor the fantastic, her reputation should remain secure. Her latest novel, set in the environs of San Francisco, draws Boy Freeling and his sister, Amy, into a...
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Susan Trott, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $18.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-88184-754-3
Trott is the author of eight previous novels but in this, her ninth (after The Exception ), she has managed the dubious feat of creating most of the heralds of a flawed first novel by a writer of uncertain promise. The story of Rome Morrison, a 19-ye
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Susan Trott, Author Riverhead Books $18 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57322-002-6
Trott, who has won a wide readership with her individualistic, witty novels (Divorcing Daddy), may touch some readers with this charming and quirky, if sometimes woolly, fable about a 72-year-old holy man named Joe and the pilgrims to whom he...
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Susan Trott, Author Doubleday Books $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-49234-8
Drawing its title and its unifying conceit from the tai chi exercises its heroine performs daily, Trott's (The Holy Man's Journey) charming, lighthearted novel is a comedy of errors about a woman who can't make up her mind. Plucky young art...
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