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Craig Nova

Auteur de Wetware

16+ oeuvres 554 utilisateurs 18 critiques 1 Favoris

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Craig Nova is the author of nine widely praised & translated novels. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Nova lives in Vermont. (Bowker Author Biography)

Œuvres de Craig Nova

Wetware (2002) 79 exemplaires
The Good Son: A Novel (1982) 73 exemplaires
The Congressman's Daughter (1986) 45 exemplaires
Incandescence (1979) 42 exemplaires
The Informer: A Novel (2010) 42 exemplaires
Cruisers: A Novel (2004) 37 exemplaires
Brook Trout and the Writing Life (1999) 31 exemplaires
Turkey Hash (1972) 25 exemplaires
Geek (1975) 23 exemplaires
Trombone (1992) 22 exemplaires
Tornado Alley (1987) 21 exemplaires
All the Dead Yale Men: A Novel (2013) 20 exemplaires
The Constant Heart (2012) 18 exemplaires
Double Solitaire: A Novel (2020) 14 exemplaires
The Book of Dreams (1994) 13 exemplaires

Oeuvres associées

The Best American Short Stories 1987 (1987) — Contributeur — 129 exemplaires
On the job: Fiction about work by contemporary American writers (1977) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires

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An OK enough father-son tale, enlivened by a third-act trip to Vegas and an interpolated story about a man who pins his hopes on breeding greyhounds. Not as good as the other two Novae I’ve read.
 
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yarb | Jan 15, 2024 |
A look at the cover might suggest that this novel is "merely" a cop story, but while there are cops in it, it is much, much more than that. CRUISERS is the story of two men juxtaposed by time and place into a sort of destiny, despite the seeming randomness of their coming together. Russell Boyd is a New England cop; Frank Kohler is the survivor of a childhood horror who years later is trying to make sense of what happened and how it has transformed him. The two men have nothing to do with one another, yet they encounter each other more than once, as do the women in their lives. With a powerful and dramatic sense of inevitability, the threads of their individual lives are drawn together as though by fate, until new horrors erupt. The story of the two men is compelling in its narrative alone, but author Craig Nova is a poetic writer, and he is one of the best writers I've ever read for giving a sense of what internal monologue and thought might sound like if we could hear characters thinking. CRUISERS is thought-provoking and stylish without being baroque. It is a fine novel, a subtle and nuanced thriller that quietly transcends the stigma of that genre by being an absorbing artistic and literary work.… (plus d'informations)
 
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jumblejim | 1 autre critique | Aug 26, 2023 |
I just never felt that urgency to keep turning the pages. I've heard great things about Nova, so maybe this one was just a miss.
 
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bookwrapt | 3 autres critiques | Mar 31, 2023 |
I've read some reviews that criticize lack of character depth, blah blah blah. This story was dark and tragic. Loved it!
 
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btbell_lt | 1 autre critique | Aug 1, 2022 |

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Œuvres
16
Aussi par
3
Membres
554
Popularité
#45,050
Évaluation
½ 3.5
Critiques
18
ISBN
72
Langues
5
Favoris
1

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