Jay Parini

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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1988
  • Latest Book:
    August 2021
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Books in Order: 12 titles

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  • Borges and Me

  • The Damascus Road

    From the author of the international bestseller The Last Station, a superb historical novel of the Apostle Paul, whose tireless and epic preaching of the message of Jesus brought Christianity into existence and changed human history forever. In th...

  • Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies

  • Anthracite Country

    poems on coal mining and the hard coal region of Pennsylvania...

  • The Passages of H.M.

    As The Passages of H. M. opens, we see, through the eyes of his long-suffering wife Lizzie, an aging, angry, and drunken Herman Melville wreaking domestic havoc in his unhappy New York home. He is decades past his flourishing career as a writer of b...

  • The Passages of Herman Melville

  • The Apprentice Lover

    When Alex Massolini's brother is killed in Vietnam, he drops out of Columbia University and leaves his conservative family behind for Capri to become secretary to Rupert Grant, a famous British novelist and poet who dominates the island like a latter...

  • The Love Run

  • Benjamin's Crossing

    The acclaimed and now-classic biographical novel of Walter Benjamin's last days--adapted into screenplay by Jay Parini. It is 1940. For the past decade, Walter Benjamin--the German-Jewish critic and philosopher--has been writing his masterpiece in a ...



  • Bay of Arrows

    A college professor obsessed with writing an epic poem about the journey of Christopher Columbus finally gets a grant and takes his family to the Dominican Republic where Columbus first saw inhabitants of the New World. 35,000 first printing. $35,000...

  • Last Station

    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREStarring Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, & James McAvoyIn 1910, Count Leo Tolstoy, the most famous writer in the world, is caught in the struggle between his devoted wife and an equally devoted acolyte over the m...

  • The Patch Boys

    Fifteen-year-old Sammy di Cantini, resident of a mining region of Pennsylvania, is determined to rise above his class, falls disastrously in love with a Protestant, and visits his Mafia brother in New York where he becomes involved in impossible stru...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jay Parini has published 12 books.

Jay Parini does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Borges and Me, was published in August 2021.

The first book by Jay Parini, The Patch Boys, was published in April 1988.

No. Jay Parini does not write books in series.
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