Robert Boswell: 7 books
The Half-Known World
On Writing Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
A rigorous examination of the workings of fiction by the novelist Robert Boswell, "one of America's finest writers" (Tom Perrotta)
Robert Boswell has been writing, reading, and teaching literature for more than twenty years. In this sparkling collection of essays, he brings this vast...
Tumbledown
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Robert Boswell's first novel since Century's Son showcases once again his "dazzling technical skill, intelligence and moral seriousness" (The New York Times Book Review)
*A Library Journal "Best Indie Fiction of 2013" *
At age thirty-three, James Candler seems to be well...
by Robert Boswell
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards is an exhilarating collection, as brash as it is wise, by Robert Boswell one of our great storytellers
Set mainly in small, gritty American cities, each of these stories is a world unto itself. A man's obsessive visits to a fortuneteller leave him nearly homeless....
by Tom Abrahams, Robert Boswell, Sarah Cortez
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
"Brooklyn Noir came first in 2004, and now, 15 years later, Houston Noir--14 stories of intrigue, betrayal and death set from Tanglewood to Third Ward penned by current or former Houston authors--goes on sale."
--Houston Chronicle
"Akashic Books's long-running Noir Series tasks writers with...
by Robert Boswell
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
There's a specter floating above the pews at afternoon mass. Father Montgovery has no idea why the ghostly presence has followed him around for years, but, when a longtime parishioner asks for help in getting his drug-addicted daughter clean, Father Montgovery must do his best to ignore the phantom...
by Joan Frank, Ted Kehoe, Alexandra Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Nine long stories and essays, originally published in the acclaimed Ploughshares Solos digital series, create this fourth annual print collection.
Visit a small island off the coast of Maine where the reappearance of an old friend might just push a painter suffering from artist’s block over...
by Robert Bruce Boswell, Jean Baptiste Racine
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE, the younger contemporary of Corneille, and his rival for supremacy in French classical tragedy, was born at Ferte-Milon, December 21, 1639. He was educated at the College of Beauvais, at the great Jansenist school at Port Royal, and at the College d'Harcourt. He attracted notice...