Books by Thomas William Simpson and Complete Book Reviews
Thomas William Simpson, Author Warner Books $29.99 (382p) ISBN 978-0-446-51613-6
``I'd like you to imagine you're me,'' begins Mac Chandler, the narrator of this engaging novel, and in the clear voice of a born raconteur he makes the reader imagine just that. ``It's an old story,'' Mac admits--two men in love with the same woman-
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Thomas William Simpson, Author Warner Books $29.99 (418p) ISBN 978-0-446-51808-6
In the year 2000, American voters fed up with politics as usual have elected as president William Conrad MacKenzie, age 32. Descended on his father's side from a long line of capitalist robber barons and on his mother's from Mohawk Indians who have...
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Thomas William Simpson, Author Warner Books $29.99 (402p) ISBN 978-0-446-51809-3
A strong narrative voice, a sure sense of storytelling and a bedeviling dash of surprise invigorate Simpson's (Full Moon Over America) tale of a man on the run. Mike Standish, a self-described ""dirty old Polack"" from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., narrates...
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Thomas William Simpson, Author Bantam Books $6.5 (368p) ISBN 978-0-553-57396-1
Reeling from the recent murder of his wife and son, successful book editor Sam Adams moves into a rented cottage on the property of beautiful, blind cellist Evelyn Richmond because his own house holds too many painful memories. Sam is intrigued by...
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Thomas William Simpson, Author Warner Books $19.95 (388p) ISBN 978-0-446-51612-9
The Winslow clan of Far Hills, N.J., is your not-so-average dysfunctional upper-crust American family. The current generation includes Mary, a historian who communicates with ghosts of the family's ancestors; Henry, who's spent 21 years posing as...
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Thomas William Simpson, Author Warner Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-36390-7
The history of the Winslow clan, a not-so-average dysfunctional upper-crust American family, is chronicled by first novelist Simpson with dramatic power and ironic humor, but with contrived fatalism. (Jan.)
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Thomas William Simpson, Author Bantam Books $22.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-553-10052-5
This tale of long-brewing revenge is rife with characters who aren't who they seem, and takes place on the grounds of an old mansion containing secret passages, peepholes and hidden TV cameras. The trouble is that the revenge motive is revealed in...
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Thomas William Simpson, Author, Thomas Williams, Author, John Irving, Illustrator William Morrow & Company $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-11544-9
At first it seems that all the characters in the 15 superior stories collected here are trapped: they're not exactly unhappy, but something is wrong with their picture. The lot of them--the son who takes a fearful plane trip to put his mother's...
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