Jess Walter: 17 books

Book cover of Schitterende ruïnes
by Jess Walter
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 27, 2014

Het is 1962. Op de rotsen van het ingeslapen vissersplaatsje Porto Vergogna staat Pasquale, een jonge Italiaan en eigenaar van het enige hotel. In dagdromen verzonken kijkt hij uit over het glinsterende water. Aan de horizon verschijnt een boot met op het dek een prachtige, in wit geklede dame. Ze...
Book cover of In het land der blinden
by Jess Walter
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 4, 2016

Op een vrijdagavond wordt een verwarde, smerig uitziende man met een zwart lapje voor zijn linkeroog het politiebureau van Spokane binnengebracht. Hij was bezig de bouwsteigers van een al jaren leegstaand, twaalf verdiepingen tellend hotel te beklimmen en wil nu een moord bekennen. Een moord die nog...
Book cover of We leven in water
by Jess Walter
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 25, 2016

‘Grappig omdat het waar is, gruwelijk omdat het waar is, grappig omdat het gruwelijk is.’ – New York Times Book Review “We leven in water” is een verzameling korte verhalen van bestsellerauteur Jess Walter. Verhalen over de loners, losers en desperado’s van de maatschappij, die hoopvolle...
Book cover of De donut man
by Jess Walter
Language: Dutch
Release Date: July 3, 2014

Het is het najaar van 1980, acht dagen voor de presidentsverkiezingen waarin een vermoeide Jimmy Carter het moet opnemen tegen de altijd opgewekte Ronald Reagan. In Spokane, Washington, is Vince Camden op zijn dagelijkse gangetje naar zijn getuigenprotectiebaan bij `Donut Make You Hungry. Als Vince...
Book cover of The Financial Lives of the Poets
by Jess Walter
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009

The Financial Lives of the Poets is a comic and heartfelt novel from National Book Award nominee Jess Walter, author of Citizen Vince and The Zero, about how we get to the edge of ruin—and how we begin to make our way back. Walter tells the story of Matt Prior, who’s losing his job, his...
Book cover of Ploughshares Spring Issue Volume 43 No. 1 Guest-Edited by Jennifer Haigh
by Jennifer Haigh, Kaveh Akbar, Matthew Lippman
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017

The Spring 2017 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles; the Winter issue is staff-edited.  ...
Book cover of We Live in Water
by Jess Walter
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013

From New York Times bestselling author, the first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter—a suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of spirit that has made him a bookseller and reader favorite Stories...
Book cover of The Zero

The Zero

A Novel

by Jess Walter
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

The Zero is a groundbreaking novel, a darkly comic snapshot of our times that is already being compared to the works of Franz Kafka and Joseph Heller. From its opening pages—when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he's shot himself in the head—novelist Jess Walter takes us on a harrowing...
Book cover of Over Tumbled Graves
by Jess Walter
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012

In Over Tumbled Graves, Jess Walter, National Book Award finalist and author of Citizen Vince and The Zero, confronts our fascination with pathology and murder. A thriller of extraordinary depth and dimension, Over Tumbled Graves follows Caroline Mabry, a Spokane police detective searching for a serial murderer.
Book cover of Ruby Ridge

Ruby Ridge

The Truth and Tragedy of the Randy Weaver Family

by Jess Walter
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012

On the last hot day of summer in 1992, gunfire cracked over a rocky knob in northern Idaho, just south of the Canadian border. By the next day three people were dead, and a small war was joined, pitting the full might of federal law enforcement against one well-armed family. Drawing on extensive interviews...
Book cover of Beautiful Ruins

Beautiful Ruins

A Novel

by Jess Walter
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012

The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his  funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 . . . and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty...
Book cover of Portland Noir
by Chris A. Bolton, Bill Cameron, Dan DeWeese
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009

Best anthology of Portland literature ever published. Local interest will be through the roof.
Book cover of Citizen Vince
by Jess Walter
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012

At 1:59 a.m. in Spokane, Washington—eight days before the 1980 presidential election—Vince Camden pockets his stash of stolen credit cards and drops by an all-night poker game before heading to his witness-protection job dusting crullers at Donut Make You Hungry. Along with a neurotic hooker girlfriend,...
Book cover of Land of the Blind
by Jess Walter
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012

While working the weekend night shift, Caroline Mabry, a weary Spokane police detective, encounters a seemingly unstable but charming derelict who tells her, "I'd like to confess." But he insists on writing out his statement in longhand. In the forty-eight hours that follow, the stranger confesses...
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