Eleanor Cooney: 4 books
Death in Slow Motion
A Memoir of a Daughter, Her Mother, and the Beast Called Alzheimer's
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
When her once-glamorous and witty novelist-mother got Alzheimer's, Eleanor Cooney moved her from her beloved Connecticut home to California in order to care for her. In tense, searing prose, punctuated with the blackest of humor, Cooney documents the slow erosion of her mother's mind, the powerful...
The Court of the Lion
A Novel of the T'ang Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Book Three of the T’ang Trilogy: “Better than Shogun!” said reviews of the now-classic, internationally-published THE COURT OF THE LION.
Based on a true story from the eighth century, it is a fictionalized telling of one of the most powerful, tragic chronicles in Chinese...
Shore of Pearls
A Novel of Murder, Plague, and the Prison Island of Hainan
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Book Two of the T’ang Trilogy, along with IRON EMPRESS and THE COURT OF THE LION: Published in Europe and now making its US debut, SHORE OF PEARLS occurs in a four-year interval in IRON EMPRESS. In 671, Magistrate Dee Jen-chieh flees the capital city of Loyang after witnessing the ghastly “trial”...
Iron Empress
A Novel of Murder and Madness in T'ang China
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Book One of the T’ang Trilogy: The International bestseller IRON EMPRESS (formerly DECEPTION), translated into five languages, hailed critically in the US and Europe, returns. In China’s six thousand-year history, there were countless Empresses, but only one female Emperor. Her name was Wu Tse-tien,...