Charles Dickinson

• Mar-1985
• / General Fiction
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Mozart, Wisconsin’s most renowned raconteur and local eccentric, Ben Ladysmith, vanished two years ago following a tragic boating accident. Obsessed with the disappearance of his friend and former professor, unemployed sportswriter Robert Cigar mov...

• Aug-1989
• / General Fiction
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Two widows take to the road across America in this ambitious novel by Charles Dickinson. Helene, who is blind, does the driving. Her sister, Ina, shows the way, and together they break free into the light they feared had gone out of their lives. They...

• Jan-1991
• / General Fiction
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On Halloween morning, Chicago news editor Danny Fain witnesses what may, or may not, be a crime. From the window of his commuter train, he thinks he sees a tiny, sheet-clad figure struck down by a car. It is a story that could save a newsman’s care...

• Mar-1993
• / General Fiction
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Shy and compassionate moneylender Harry Waltz is the richest man in Marathon, Michigan, and at sixty-one, has dedicated his life to bringing “honor and gentlemanliness” to loan-sharking. His wife died twenty years ago, he lost one son in Vietnam,...

• Mar-1993
• / General Fiction
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Set in family homes, factories, shops, small-town streets, backyards-the familiar landscapes of our everyday lives-these stories take us by surprise as they plumb the complex and often tenuous connections that exist between child and parent, husband ...

• Jan-2003
• / Fantasy
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Charles Dickinson's novels and short stories have won widespread acclaim for their deft characterization, humanity, and humor. Newsday described him as "a writer thoroughly in command of his art," while the Chicago Tribune wrote "he can surprise us a...

• Jul-2013
• / Science Fiction
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A Family in Time is the sequel to A Shortcut in Time, Charles Dickinson's classic time-travel novel about Josh Winkler, who went back 15 minutes and changed just about everything in his life and in the lives of the people he loves--and hates. In A Fa...