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WorksCentury's Son
"A luminous novel" - Kirkus starred review "The texture of this replete portrayal of Middle America and its discontents suggests an inspired collaboration between Anne Tyler and John Cheever. Only a handful of Boswell's contemporaries have written anything better." - Booklist starred review American Owned Love
"A smart, sensitive, unforgettable novel...Rare is the contemporary novel that simultaneously entertains [and]unselfconsciously inspires. Beyond even these noteworthy accomplishments, American Owned Love tranlates qualities usually impossible to describe, the ineffable, luminous, mutating qualities of love." - Chicago Tribune Mystery Ride
"Mystery Ride is deeply irresistible...To read it is to enlarge one's own life." - Sandra Scofield, The New York Times Book Review "Mystery Ride is love itself...old-fashioned, down-in-the-trenches, hole-in-the-heart love that transcends the tedium of life, tragic loss, even divorce...An extraordinary book." - Chicago Tribune Living to Be 100
Winner of the PEN West award for fiction. The Geography of Desire
"A stunning blend of eroticism and intrigue..." - Chicago Tribune "Robert Boswell's prose is filled with poetry, wit, variety. His imagination is extensive. One reads and remembers much with pleasure." - The New York Times Book Review Crooked Hearts
"Dazzling...Imagine Salinger's Glass family transplanted to the Sun Belt of the 1970's" - The New York Times "A piercing first novel" - Time "A beautifully rendered story of trying to break free of the quiet murders of the spirit perpetrated in the name of love." - The Boston Globe "Boswell again and again deftly demonstrates the eternal presentness of the past in the lives of characters we come to care about deeply. His brilliant debut as a novelist will be a hard act to follow." - Chicago Tribune Dancing in the Movies
"Powerful, taut, stark, intense with human passion" - Tim O'Brien "Like a seemingly effortless dance...a stunning performance." - Village Voice Virtual Death
Finalist for the Philip K. Dick prize. Selected as one of the best novels of the year by Science Fiction Chronicle. Tongues
Winner of the John Gassner Prize for playwriting. |
Selected WorksNovel
Century's Son
Published in 2002 by Knopf Paperback published in 2003 by Picador American Owned Love
Published by Knopf in 1997. Paperback published by HarperPerennial in 1998 Mystery Ride
Published by Knopf in 1993. Paperback published by HarperCollins in 1994. The Geography of Desire
Published by Knopf in 1989. Paperback published by HarperCollins in 1994. Crooked Hearts
Published by Knopf in 1987. Paperback published by HarperCollins in 1988. Play
Tongues
First performed by American Southwest Theatre Company in 1999 Science Fiction Novel published under pseudonym Shale Aaron
Virtual Death
Published by HarperCollins in 1995. Leather bound edition published by Easton Press. Story Collection
Living to Be 100
Published by Knopf in 1994. Paperback published by HarperCollins in 1995. Dancing in the Movies
Published by the University of Iowa Press in 1986. Paperback edition from New American Library published in 1987. |
