Hugh Nissenson: 4 books
by Hugh Nissenson
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
INTRODUCTION BY MARGO JEFFERSON
Finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award
"It is a tale more moving and haunting than one thinks it can possibly be."—The Village Voice
The year is 1811. Having suffered a loss of faith, Thomas Keene, Congregational...
by Hugh Nissenson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Charles Wentworth, a heartbroken Puritan, comes to the New World from England in 1622 in search of salvation and a new beginning. Burdened with a lifelong struggle between his desire for faith and his doubts about God's love for him, he leaves the only land he has ever known after the death of his...
by Hugh Nissenson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Washington Post Best Books of 2005.
Philadelphia Inquirer Top 10 Fiction Pick, Fall 2005
At age 67, Artie Rubin finds his world shaken to its foundation by events he cannot control. His tale his both universal and unique; it is the story of the end of things and their beginnings, of...
by Hugh Nissenson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
Even before his birth, Johnny Baker's life is in danger. His mother breaks the law when she has her fertilized egg endowed with genes that will give her son the potential to become a visual artist. Born in 2038, John Firth Baker is the first genetically engineered artist. At the age of nineteen, at...