Books by Tony Earley and Complete Book Reviews
Tony Earley, Author . Algonquin $22.95 (172p) ISBN 978-1-56512-302-1
"I loved the smell of incense as much as the smell of beer, and probably for the same reasons. The sad truth is that I do not like Christians very much, particularly when they congregate." Such quasi–non sequiturs characterize Earley&#
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Tony Earley, Author . Little, Brown $23.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-19907-0
The small dramas of teenage love get caught in the crosswinds of a war in this sequel to the 2001 bestseller Jim the Boy
. It's late summer 1941, and Jim Glass, now a high school senior, has an earnest, unshakable passion for classmate Chrissie
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Tony Earley, Author Little Brown and Company $24.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-316-19964-3
Simple, resonant sentences and a wealth of honest feeling propel this tracing of a 10-year-old boy's coming of age in Aliceville, N.C., in the 1930s. Earley's debut novel (after his well-received collection Here We Are in Paradise) carries us, in...
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Tony Earley, Author Little Brown and Company $19.95 (198p) ISBN 978-0-316-19962-9
Eight beautifully crafted tales illuminate the lives of 20th-century North Carolinians in this debut collection from Earley, whose work has been published in Harper's , Tri-Quarterly and other literary periodicals. With quirky ruefulness, he...
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Tony Earley. Little Brown, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-316-24612-5
Earley has grown up. The author of the critically acclaimed novels Jim the Boy and The Blue Star, both set in the 1930s and 1940s American South and concerned with the childhood and teen years of Jim Glass, has moved on. Although the seven works (a...
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