Thomas Fox Averill, Author . Putnam/BlueHen $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-14755-5
A man's perspective is rare in the current crush of culinary-inspired fiction, but in this first novel based around hotter-than-hot peppers, it's macho to wield a saucepan. Narrator Wes Hingler, son of dueling chefs, is a terrific kitchen...
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Thomas Fox Averill, Author . Blue Hen $13 (272p) ISBN 978-0-425-19081-4
Whiskey, bagpipes, haggis and Robert Burns: Averill plops Scottish institutions into the American heartland in this meandering coming-of-age tale. In 1952, Rob MacPherson and his infant son, Ewan, emigrate from Scotland to the very Scottish town of...
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Thomas Fox Averill, Author . Univ. of Nebraska $22 (148p) ISBN 978-0-8032-1068-4
Nebraska inaugurates its new Flyover Fiction series, edited by Ron Hansen, with this slim, elegiac collection by the author of Secrets of the Tsil Café
. "Nothing ever happens out nowhere, at the edge of Moscow, Kansas," reads the...
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Thomas Fox Averill, Author Watermark Press $9.95 (172p) ISBN 978-0-922820-01-6
In his second collection, Averill ( Passes at the Moon ) writes with the restlessness of a young author searching for his voice. His best stories journey over a novelistic time span: years pass while a boy-into-man narrator recalls skinny-dipping or
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