Mary Morris

• Dec-1984
• / General Fiction
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Mary Morris's first book, the short story collection Vanishing Animals, was widely nailed by critics as one of the most distinguished recent debuts by a fiction writer. The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters recognized her achievement...

• Sep-1986
• / General Fiction
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Fifteen deftly crafted stories from the award-winning author of The Jazz Palace, “a marvelous storyteller” (Chicago Tribune Books).   Acclaimed author Mary Morris takes us to a Greek village, Cape Canaveral, South America, New York City in t...

• Apr-1988
• / General Fiction
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Great travel writing has always been about the person making the trip as well as the things he or she encounters, and Mary Morris's category-defying 1988 memoir was an instant classic as much for its candid revelation of the author's turbulent emotio...

• May-1989
• / General Fiction
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Mary Morris, the acclaimed author of Nothing to Declare, the remarkable journal of a woman traveling alone, now brings us an absorbing and evocative novel of healing and forgiveness, love and war.         ...

• Jul-1991
• / Literary
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Morris's stories range over vast territories, both emotional and geographical, from a summer romance by the swimming pool to reconciliations in a New York walk-up, from expeditions in the Rockies to encounters in the suburbs...

• May-1993
• / General Fiction
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Colin has a mission. He wants to speak to the Queen about his brother Luke who has cancer. Cousin Alistair would like to help but stress brings on his dandruff. Colin takes the lock off the back door and heads out alone. Adapted from the best-selling...

• Apr-1994
• / General Fiction
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Sometimes a writer so perfectly captures the reality of our lives that we are given a new way of seeing ourselves.  Mary Morris has accomplished this in A Mother’s Love, a novel about the solitary moral courage of a woman raising a child alone...

• May-1997
• / General Fiction
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In superbly crafted prose, Mary Morris captures the drama -- and danger -- in the everyday and on the road.  In her novels, short stories, and travel memoirs, including the acclaimed Nothing to Declare, Morris has dazzled us with her command of ...

• May-1997
• / General Fiction
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The Night Sky is a moving novel about the solitary moral courage of a women raising a child alone and the complex resilience of family. Ivy Slovak is a jewelry designer and artist whose days are absorbed by the struggle to make an unreliable paych...

• Apr-1998
• / General Fiction
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It was with her stories that Mary Morris first won attention and acclaim: her first collection, Vanishing Animals, received the prestigious Rome Prize, and her second, The Bus of Dreams, was widely hailed. In this new collection, Mary Morris once aga...

• Nov-1998
• / General Fiction
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Angels & Aliens is Mary Morris's long-awaited memoir, confirming her status as a master of the genre.In Angels & Aliens, Mary Morris once again explores her experiences as a woman on the road, this time as a single parent, wandering with her d...

• Sep-2000
• / General Fiction
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When Tess Winterstone returns to her suburban childhood home after almost 30 years to attend a high school reunion, memories flood back, firmly shut doors open, and the betrayal by her father decades earlier comes to rest. Masterfully weaving the com...

• Oct-2004
• / General Fiction
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Revenge is a compelling and psychologically complex story of female friendship, art, and life. When a young painter moves next door to a world class novelist with writer's block, the two women become entwined in a novel described by Michael Cunningha...

• Apr-2015
• / Historical
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Acclaimed author Mary Morris returns to her Chicago roots in this sweeping novel that brilliantly captures the dynamic atmosphere and the dazzling music of the Jazz Age. In the midst of boomtown Chicago, two Jewish families have suffered terrible...

• Apr-2018
• / General Fiction
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From award-winning novelist Mary Morris comes the remarkable story of a remote New Mexican town coming to grips with a dark history it never imagined. In 1492, the Jewish and Muslim populations of Spain were expelled, and Columbus set sail for Am...

• May-2025
• / General Fiction
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Award-winning novelist Mary Morris weaves together an unsolved family mystery, a poignant coming-of-age story, and a little-known corner of World War II history in this lyrical novel of family, loss and, ultimately, love.Thirty years ago, Laura’s m...