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  • Bibliography:
    6 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1987
  • Latest Book:
    July 2007
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Book List in Order: 6 titles



  • Imagining Argentina is set in the dark days of the late 1970's, when thousands of Argentineans disappeared without a trace into the general's prison cells and torture chambers. When Carlos Ruweda's wife is suddenly taken from him, he discovers a magi...



  • “Beautifully lyric . . . [Lawrence Thornton’s] prose is finely honed and his touch sure.” -- Chicago Tribune The year is 1936. The tide of fascism is overwhelming Europe. In Spain the Guardia Civil wages war on the citizens. Spanish-German nove...



  • No one who read Lawrence Thornton's stunning debut novel, Imagining Argentina, will ever forget its mesmerizing narrative voice, its mixture of realism and magic, or its haunting story of Argentina's Disappeared -- the thousands who vanished without ...



  • For more than ten years, Dolores Masson has joined the women who march each Thursday in Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo in memory of los desaparecidos--the countless men, women, and children who vanished without a trace at the hands of the generals durin...



  • Based on a chilling historical event, Ghost Woman is a tale of the arrogance of colonizers, rape, guilt, punishment and retribution. It is set on the Southern California coast during the early nineteenth century, when Catholic missionaries rounded up...



  • In a triumphant fusion of fiction and history, award-winning author Lawrence Thornton re-creates a terrible tragedy at sea and takes the reader on an unforgettable voyage through the human heart. Thornton brilliantly reveals how the repercussions of ...




Award-Winning Books by Lawrence Thornton

Imagining Argentina
1988 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award -- Fiction
1988 PEN Literary Award -- Fiction
1988 PEN Literary Award -- Hemingway Award: Debut Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lawrence Thornton has published 6 books.

Lawrence Thornton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Sailors on the Inward Sea, was published in July 2007.

The first book by Lawrence Thornton, Imagining Argentina, was published in August 1987.

No. Lawrence Thornton does not write books in series.