Books by Thomas Tryon and Complete Book Reviews
Thomas Tryon, Author Knopf Publishing Group $22.95 (567p) ISBN 978-0-394-52389-7
Murder, suicide, elopement, an Algonquian witch's prophecy, a shipwreck, insanity, sudden revelations of paternity, a duel--a welter of incident, large and small, crowds Tryon's ( The Other ) big, old-fashioned historical romance, the first...
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Thomas Tryon, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (609p) ISBN 978-0-394-58588-8
Set, like its predecessor, in pre-Civil War New England, this sequel to The Wings of the Morning matches both the verbosity and the compulsive readability of the earlier novel, as Tryon continues to focus on the lives of the citizens of Pequot...
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Thomas Tryon, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-684-80393-7
Published posthumously, Tryon's contemporary version of The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a lifeless, tedious affair that never transcends the restrictions of its stock plot. NYC street magician Michael Hawke is performing his tricks in front of the...
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Thomas Tryon, Author, Robert Gottlieb, Editor Alfred A. Knopf $18.95 (479p) ISBN 978-0-394-55023-7
The author of the bestselling Crowned Heads and The Other depicts a tarnished Hollywood dream in these interrelated novellas chronicling the overlapping lives of five glamorous movie stars, four of whom are bound together by their love for the...
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Thomas Tyron, Author, Thomas Tryon, Author Knopf Publishing Group $18.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-394-56006-9
Tryon ( The Other ) sends Leo Joaquim, his orphaned 13-year-old hero, to Camp Friend-Indeed in Connecticut in the summer of 1938, and does his best to show that the behavior of the kids at this American-as-apple-pie camp parallels that of the Nazi...
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