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amy l. boaz
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PUBLISHED: Aug.01.2009

Beat

One woman’s dream of escape from domestic unhappiness opens up a world of erotic fantasy and danger in this sensuous, suspenseful second novel by Amy Boaz. A wife and mother estranged from her life back in the suburbs of America, Frances has fled to Paris with her mischievous young daughter, Cathy, where they visit museums, sit in cafés, and rest uneasily incognito....

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PUBLISHED: Mar.01.2008

A Richer Dust

When Doll, a British painter just out of art school at the Slade, arrives in New Mexico in 1924, she is certain only of her faith in the man who invited her: social philosopher Abe Bronstone, who has leftBritain to found a model society in Taos. Doll has renounced her own aristocratic roots to join the high desert household of Abe and his wife Vera (a scandalous German...

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Essay: "A Knock on the Door"

Article: Boston Globe: A Richer Dust

Short Story: A Knock on the Door, Chapter 1

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Jun.01.2009

Beat

Published by Kirkus

Boaz follows her debut (A Richer Dust, 2008) with another finely wrought novel rooted in literary history. Here it’s a member of the Beat Generation who provokes the narrator...

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Damn the torpedoes--full speed ahead. ”

—Admiral Farragut

About amy

Amy Boaz is the author of two novels: A Richer Dust (Permanent Press, 2008), nominated for a literature prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and winner of a Washington Irving Award; and Beat (August, 2009), "a satisfyingly subtle and rich...

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amy l. boaz
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