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PUBLISHED: Jun.01.2008

Salvation

Salvation is the sometimes funny, sometimes eerie story of the coming of age of Crane Cavanaugh, a budding scientist. Crane narrates her early life with a rich awareness of the natural world and her own precarious spot in it. Raised below the poverty line in Arnold, Iowa, by depraved adults who’ve given up the life of charlatans on the gospel circuit, Crane’s first-person account...

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PUBLISHED: Jun.01.2004

Seriously

Tamara Johnssen is pushing thirty and life has taken an unplanned turn: her successful sister, her only living relative, has banished her from Manhattan to the rural crossroads of Dustin in upstate New York. Put under the watch of an attractive, married attorney, Tamara soon finds love and other salvations. Buoyed by her romantic affair and her sister's pocketbook, Tamara gains...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.01.1997

Normal

You won't find storybook families in these twelve wonderfully daring stories by Lucia Nevai. Over and over, Nevai's characters, from an urbane ex-hippie in Manhattan to a disabled war veteran in rural Louisiana, miss in their attempts to connect with the people they love most. But in the midst of all the missed connections, something remarkable (and often very funny) happens. In...

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PUBLISHED: Sep.01.1987

Star Game

These authentic and descriptive tales quietly portray the lives of a cross section of our times: a reconstituted step family struggling to put down new roots, self-destructive women caught in unfulfilling relationships with men, rural dwellers evoking the basic desires and pains of their unchanging but nevertheless eventful lives In "The Nile," a "happily married...

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Jul.25.2004

Seriously

Published by The New York Times Book Review

THERE are first novels writers can't seem to match -- Ralph Ellison's ''Invisible Man'' is the archetype here. There's the posthumous first novel -- John Kennedy Toole's ''...

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Lucia Nevai is the author of Seriously, a novel, published by Little, Brown. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House, Iowa Review, Zoetrope All-Story, the New Yorker, Glimmer Train, and other literary magazines. Her first collection, Star Game, won the...

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