Jane Alison

• Apr-2001
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Why was Ovid, the most popular poet of his day, banished from Rome? Why do only two lines survive of his play Medea, reputedly his most passionate, most accomplished work? Between the known details of Ovid’s life and these enigmas, Jane Alison has ...

• Apr-2003
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A contemporary tale of love and ambition, betrayal and revenge, set in two gloriously watery cities. In a damp Venetian palace, Oswaldo contemplates the ravages of time to his body and his beloved city, and dreams up a way to hold mortality at bay...

• May-2005
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In the manner of W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants, Natives and Exotics follows three characters, linked by blood and legacy, as they wander a world scarred by colonialism.

Transplanted halfway around the globe in 1970, nine-year-old Alice, the c...

• Apr-2010
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• Feb-2014
• / General Fiction
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Ovid's stories melt moral conventions, explore ambiguities, and dissolve boundaries between men, women, animals, gods, plants, and the mineral world; in doing so they contrive to seduce readers. Ovid's dark pleasure in telling such stories with a ful...

• Sep-2016
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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016“Nine Island is a crackling incantation, brittle and brilliant and hot and sad and full of sideways humor that devastates and illuminates all at once.” -- Lauren Groff, author of Fates and FuriesNine Island i...

• Aug-2024
• / Literary
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Two brilliant architects clash over the fate of a luxurious villa in this riveting tale of artistic obsession.Along the glittering coast of southern France, among a jungle of olive trees and aloes, a white villa rose from an earthen terrace. Eileen, ...