Billie Livingston: 6 books

Book cover of Greedy Little Eyes
by Billie Livingston
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010

In Greedy Little Eyes, award-winning writer Billie Livingston explores the universal craving for connection, both emotional and physical. A Vintage Canada trade paperback original. A young misfit is assaulted by a delusional homeless man and subsequently finds herself caught in the middle of...
Book cover of Cease to Blush
by Billie Livingston
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2010

Billie Livingston’s fine second novel leads us to consider the nature of our hidden lives and desires — and to question whether the sky would really fall if we admitted our true needs and ceased to blush. As Cease to Blush opens, Vivian is late to her own mother’s funeral. Wearing a tight...
Book cover of One Good Hustle
by Billie Livingston
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012

From award-winning writer Billie Livingston, an unsparing novel of loyalty and survival that is fierce, sharp and funny even when it's breaking your heart.   The child of 2 con artists, 16-year-old Sammie Bell always prided herself on knowing the score. But now she finds herself backed into a corner....
Book cover of Going Down Swinging
by Billie Livingston
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010

A remarkable debut novel and bittersweet tale of the unflinching love and devotion between a mother and daughter.Razor sharp and darkly funny Going Down Swinging chronicles two years in the life of the Hoffmans. Eilleen Hoffman has just told Danny, her con-artist lover and father of her youngest daughter...
Book cover of The Crooked Heart of Mercy
by Billie Livingston
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016

From acclaimed Canadian novelist Billie Livingston comes this powerful U.S. debut that unfolds over a riveting dual narrative—an unforgettable story of ordinary lives rocked by hardship and scandal that follows in the tradition of Jennifer Haigh, A. Manette Ansay, and Jennifer Egan. Ben wakes...
Book cover of Trouble with Marlene, The
by Billie Livingston
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010

If you act like Marlene, you end up like Marlene — messed up, lonely and broke. No wonder Samantha rejects her mother’s lifestyle. In THE TROUBLE WITH MARLENE, mother and daughter share one thing — thoughts of suicide. Marlene never stops talking about it, but for Samantha, it’s a private...
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