Ursule Molinaro, Author McPherson $9 (122p) ISBN 978-0-929701-01-1
A doctor sets up a suicide parlor where people ``could go to die in peace, painlessly . . . 24 hours a day, 7 days a week''; a 19th century housewife kills herself after she has failed to store sufficient provisions for a protracted winter, and, in...
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Ursule Molinaro, Author McPherson $10 (119p) ISBN 978-0-929701-29-5
Molinaro's ( Positions with White Roses ) clever feminist novella is actually more like an extended (perhaps even a little attenuated) anecdote, set in ancient Athens. The female narrator is a nameless 30-year-old poet who has volunteered to be...
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Ursule Molinaro, Author Serif Publishing $11.99 (143p) ISBN 978-1-897959-02-2
Novelist/translator Molinaro's (The New Moon with the Old Moon in Her Arms) latest novel is a suspense fantasy of romance, betrayal and plagiarism, set both in contemporary Greenwich Village and a bygone Prague. Her vivid, disaffected protagonist-a...
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Ursule Molinaro, Author McPherson $16 (277p) ISBN 978-0-929701-44-8
Molinaro's revisionist novel retells the story of Oedipus from the perspective of his mother. Events are mostly narrated by Jocasta, and the twist is that she's perfectly aware that the man she's about to marry is her son. Molinaro, also a poet,...
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Ursule Molinaro, Author McPherson $25 (242p) ISBN 978-0-929701-59-2
Compact and carefully constructed, this triptych of short novels--Angel on Fire, Saint Boy and April in Paris--focuses on seemingly ordinary characters, viewing them through a screen of mythological and biblical symbols and endowing them with double
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Ursule Molinaro, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-525-24848-4
The quirky author of 13 returns with fleeting, fictional glances at her ``sisters in irony,'' 29 women ``whose talents, unusual (usually unwomanly) interests, & dedications singled them out for notice by their contemporaries. --Rarely for their...
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