Lisa Martin and Valerie Martin, illus. by Kelly Murphy. Algonquin Young Readers, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-61620-246-0
Feline brothers Anton and Cecil have different ideas about how life should be lived. “Don’t be a chicken, be a cat. Be adventurous!” cries Cecil. “But every cat couldn’t be like Cecil. And every cat didn’t need to hear about it,” thinks Anton. Cecil
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Captivated by the various frescoes depicting the life of St. Francis of Assisi, Martin, a writer of fiction (Italian Fever), was inspired to create this series of word pictures about the medieval saint who has been declared patron of ecologists and
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Valerie Martin, Author Doubleday/Talese $23.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-50408-9
The vivid imagination that allowed Martin to create Jekyll and Hyde's eponymous servant in Mary Reilly
is again evident in this powerful story of a petulant and bitter plantation mistress whose absorption in her own misery leaves her blind to...
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Valerie Martin, Author . Vintage $13 (212p) ISBN 978-1-4000-9550-6
Each piece in this suspenseful and piercingly acute collection traces an artist's struggles for excellence and public acclaim, and how those struggles crosscut with relationships that support and undo art. The title story is told by a moderately
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Valerie Martin, Author . Doubleday/Talese $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-51545-0
This thought-provoking novel by Orange Prize–winning Martin (for Property
) opens deceptively, as the quiet story of a mother slowly adjusting to her 21-year-old son becoming an adult. In 2002, Chloe Dane is a loving mother and wife, an artist
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Valerie Martin, Author . Doubleday/Talese $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-52584-8
Martin (Mary Reilly
; Property
) adroitly plays with the boundary between reality and performance in her fluidly written new novel about a group of New York thespians in the 1970s and '80s. Aspiring actor Edward Day is the book's...
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Valerie Martin, Author Doubleday Books $18.95 (263p) ISBN 978-0-385-24968-3
From its startling first scene to the final, provocative paragraph, this highly original view of the Jekyll and Hyde story is a feat of narrative engineering. Mary Reilly is a housemaid in the Victorian London home of Dr. Henry Jekyll, a thoughtful,
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Valerie Martin, Author Bantam $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-57270-4
Set in New Orleans, this novel portrays a zoo veterinarian whose 25-year marriage is threatened by her husband's love for both a young secretary and a long-dead Creole woman. (June)
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Valerie Martin, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16.95 (204p) ISBN 978-0-395-43613-4
Employing a plot as seemingly trite as: woman loves man; woman leaves man; life goes on, Martin (Set in Motion, Alexandra achieves a memorable novel, redolent with the tropical corruption that is so much a part of the charm of New Orleans. Beneath...
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Valerie Martin, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16.95 (147p) ISBN 978-0-395-46788-6
Death, unnatural creatures, household pets and the conflicts of the natural world with the rules of society are elements in this striking collection of 10 stories by the author of A Recent Martyr, Alexandra and Set in Motion. Martin's characters are
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Valerie Martin, Author Nan A. Talese $22.5 (340p) ISBN 978-0-385-42125-6
Early in Martin's mesmerizing and moving new novel, Ellen Clayton, one of the three women whose lives are chronicled here, reads a magazine article titled, ``The Great Divorce.'' Its subject is ``the breakup between the human species and the rest of
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Valerie Martin, Author Pocket Books $8 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-73150-2
Mary Reilly, housemaid and devoted friend of Dr. Henry Jekyll, senses pk that something is dreadfully wrong with the weary and laboratory-obsessed scientist, who has hired Edward Hyde as his assistant. ``Spare and atmospheric, this story is a dark,...
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Valerie Martin, Author Alfred A. Knopf $22 (272p) ISBN 978-0-375-40542-6
The reality-distorting fever that afflicts the i-dotting, t-crossing Lucy Stark--a plainish Brooklyn woman who finds herself embroiled in the creepy intrigues of the aristocratic Cini family--envelops her mere days after she arrives in northern...
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Valerie Martin. Doubleday/Talese, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-53350-8
Martin (Property) uses one of the most baffling maritime mysteries of all time as the starting point for a complex exploration of several different characters, including Arthur Conan Doyle. The melancholic and moving prologue, set in 1859,...
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Valerie Martin. Doubleday/Talese, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-53352-2
Martin (The Ghost of Mary Celeste) assembles the stories in this collection from declarative, unfurnished sentences that have the stocky feel of a translated text. It's a style that lends itself well to the spare, domestic situations—a cat stuck in...
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Saint Francis of Assisi, Author, Valerie Martin, Author Random House Espanol $16.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4000-0000-5
American novelist Martin has opened a window into the medieval world to present us with a vivid portrait of St. Francis. Inspired by Renaissance frescoes of this patron saint of Italy, Martin takes a novel approach to biography, delicately...
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Valerie Martin. Doubleday/Talese, $27.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-38-554639-3
An Italian villa and the family that owns it capture the imagination of an American writer in Martin’s intimate, disquieting latest (after the collection Sea Lovers). In the summer of 1983, novelist and professor Jan Vidor rents a Tuscan apartment...
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Valerie Martin. Doubleday, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-54995-0
Martin (The Ghost of the Mary Celeste) sets this undercooked romp in a brothel on a fictional tropical island in the 1950s, where prostitution is legal. The story opens with beautiful blind orphan Carità Bercy arriving at the brothel in search of...
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