David Plante: 13 books

David Plante's dazzling portraits of three influential women in the literary world, now back in print for the first time in decades. Difficult Women presents portraits of three extraordinary, complicated, and, yes, difficult women, while also raising intriguing and, in their own way, difficult...

The writer David Plante has kept a diary of his life among the artistic elite for over half a century. It is an extraordinary document, both deeply personal and a rare window onto disappearing worlds. This extracted memoir spans the 1980s, a period of exploration and growth for Plante and his lover...

The first volume of National Book Award finalist David Plante's extraordinary diaries of a life lived among the artistic elite in 1960s London. “Nikos and I live together as lovers, as everyone knows, and we seem to be accepted because it's known that we are lovers. In fact, we are, according...

A daughter of Jewish refugees searches for love and a spiritual home in this novel by the National Book Award–nominated author of Difficult Women.   Brought up in a secular household on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Nancy Green knows suspiciously little about her parents’ past. She knows they...

Set in the seamy world of the Russian sex slave trade, The Age of Terror is the harrowing story of Joe, a disillusioned young American expatriate and lapsed Catholic who searches for life's meaning in the Soviet Union on the eve of its disintegration. Plante plays brilliantly with our assumptions...

An original and radiant novel about grief, obsession, and the need for meaning from the author of The Family, a finalist for the National Book Award.When his young son dies in a freak accident, Gerard struggles to find a reason in the smallest of details, including the scrap of paper containing the...

The Bench Aint Bad, the third book in the Kids Dont Build Boats series, invites readers to spend time with the narratorJacobas he recounts the ups and downs of his business experiences and personal life. By telling about the successes, failures, and moments in which God worked in the marriage of Jacob...

23 very well-known people from the arts, sport, and business worlds talk about how dyslexia affected their childhood, how they were able to overcome the challenges and use the special strengths of dyslexia to achieve great success in adulthood. Darcey Bussell CBE, Eddie Izzard, Sir Richard Branson,...

The early 1940s werent easy years for America or the world at large. Jacob was just a young boy in New Hampshire when World War II broke out. His father was sent away to fight faceless monsters, while Jacob and his remaining family moved in with his grandparents. It was easy living with his grandparents,...

Set in the lush wilderness of America in the 1600s, Smith & Priest continues the adventures of professional French educator Henry Priest and his adopted son, Zoel Smith. After crossing the Atlantic Ocean to join French settlers in Quebec City, Henry and Zoel hope to build their fur trade business...

Pursuing a strategy of colonial expansion in the early 1600s, France encourages its citizens to leave their motherland and venture to the New World. They focus on the St. Lawrence River area and sponsor settlements along its shores, calling this region New France. One of these intrepid individuals...

In this third book in the Kbec series, fur trader and horse breeder Zoel Smith relies on his God-given skills and strengths to forge his own pathinstead of staying with his adoptive parents, Henry and Anna, and assisting with their mission caring for sick and abandoned Indians. But the path he has...

Were never alone. Jesus or the Devil will guide, encourage, and teach us when we draw near to him. Those who choose the Devil may not know it in the beginning, but they will be made aware later on. This story is about a wretched family that unknowingly leverages the Devil to illegally make...