Keith Maillard

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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1980
  • Latest Book:
    September 2006
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Full Series List in Order

Difficulty at the Beginning

1 - Running (Sep-2005)
2 - Morgantown (Mar-2006)
3 - Lyndon Johnson and the Majorettes (Mar-2006)
4 - Looking Good (Sep-2006)

Book List in Order: 12 titles

  • Alex Driving South

    When Evan, who left Raysburg, West Virginia, to go to college, and Alex, his high-school friend, meet again on the streets of Raysburg, they decide to travel south in Alex's old Cadillac telling stories along the way...

  • Light in the Company of Women

  • Motet

    The darkest of Keith Maillard's novels, Motet is "sung" in three radically different voices. Paul, a professor of musicology, is researching a sixteenth century motet and finding a nightmarish story of heresy, persecution, tortu...

  • Hazard Zones

    Larry Cameron is a veteran of hazard zones. As a native of Raysburg, West Virginia, a flood plain development on the Ohio River, he grew up in one; as a geography student who researched hazard zones on the Ohio River, he became an expert on them; and...

  • Two Strand River

    Leslie is a young woman whose life has been set adrift since her career as a competitive swimmer ended. Alan is a gentle young hairstylist trapped achingly between a male body and female psyche. His transformation into Ellen is touchingly told - and ...

  • Gloria

    Gloria, a recent college graduate, class of '57, has everything a girl could want. Expected to make a brilliant marriage to a wealthy but conventional man, Gloria finds herself torn between society's expectations and her own search fo...

  • The Clarinet Polka

    Author Keith Maillard received critical acclaim with his novel Gloria, which told the story of a young woman on the cusp of womanhood in a town called Raysburg, West Virginia. In this book, The Clarinet Polka, Maillard turns that same eagle-eyed atte...

  • Running

    Difficulty at the Beginning - 1

    In this, the first volume of Difficulty at the Beginning, John Dupre is a student at Raysburg Military Academy, where his best friend Lyle Ledzinski is training him to be a perfect Socratic athlete: “A sound mind in a sound body.”Together they wa...

  • Lyndon Johnson and the Majorettes

    Difficulty at the Beginning - 3

    It is the summer of 1965. The assassination of JFK has left John Dupre -- and all of America -- with Lyndon Baines Johnson, that Southern a*****e with a public persona cut from an old rock and roll song: I RIDE FROM TEXAS TO ENFORCE THE LAW.It's opp...



  • Morgantown

    Difficulty at the Beginning - 2

    John Dupre, a junior at West Virginia University, is an English major on the Dean's List dressed up as a Beatnik cowboy, the folk-singing resident outsider before nonconformity became a youth uniform.Morgantown is a masterful ensemble piece centering...

  • Looking Good

    Difficulty at the Beginning - 4

    The Summer of Love is already like a distant memory; the psychedelic underground has turned in on itself. John Dupre has deserted a perfectly satisfying life as a student in Toronto, drawn back to the US by the need to make a difference in the Revolu...

  • Twin Studies

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    An engrossing, timely, and contemporary novel about the bonds between twins, about sexuality and gender fluidity, and about the messy complexities of modern family life " the much-anticipated new novel, the first in more than a decade, from acclaim...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Keith Maillard has published 12 books.

Keith Maillard does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Looking Good, was published in September 2006.

The first book by Keith Maillard, Alex Driving South, was published in February 1980.

Yes. Keith Maillard has 1 series.
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