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Valerie Martin is the author of three collections of short fiction, most recently The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories, and nine novels, including The Confessions of Edward Day, Trespass, Italian Fever, The Great Divorce, Mary Reilly—the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story told from the viewpoint of a housemaid, which was filmed with Julia Roberts and John Malkovich—and the 2003 Orange Prize-winning Property. She is also the author of the non-fiction work Salvation: Scenes from the Life of St. Francis. She resides in upstate New York.
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The Confessions of Edward Day
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $25.00
Acclaimed author Valerie Martin returns with a dark comedy about love, sex, an actor's ambition, and the perils of playing a role too well.
In this fictional memoir, Valerie Martin brilliantly re-creates the seamy theater world of 1970s New York, when rents were cheap, love was free, and nudity on stage... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $25.00
Acclaimed author Valerie Martin returns with a dark comedy about love, sex, an actor's ambition, and the perils of playing a role too well.
In this fictional memoir, Valerie Martin brilliantly re-creates the seamy theater world of 1970s New York, when rents were cheap, love was free, and nudity on stage... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Property
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $14.00
Valerie Martin’s Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery’s venomous effects on the owner and the owned. The year is 1828, the setting a Louisiana sugar plantation where Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband. In particular his relationship with her... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $14.00
Valerie Martin’s Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery’s venomous effects on the owner and the owned. The year is 1828, the setting a Louisiana sugar plantation where Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband. In particular his relationship with her... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Trespass
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $14.95
Two women, Chloe Dale, an artist comfortably ensconced in bucolic suburbia, and Salome Drago, a wily, seductive refugee from a country that no longer exists, confront each other in a Manhattan restaurant, and the battle lines are drawn. Toby Dale, son of the artist and ardent suitor of the refugee, is... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $14.95
Two women, Chloe Dale, an artist comfortably ensconced in bucolic suburbia, and Salome Drago, a wily, seductive refugee from a country that no longer exists, confront each other in a Manhattan restaurant, and the battle lines are drawn. Toby Dale, son of the artist and ardent suitor of the refugee, is... Read more >
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Mary Reilly
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2001
Price: $13.95
From the acclaimed author of the bestselling Italian Fever comes a fresh twist on the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, a novel told from the perspective of Mary Reilly, Dr. Jekyll's dutiful and intelligent housemaid.
Faithfully weaving in details from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, Martin introduces an original and captivating character... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2001
Price: $13.95
From the acclaimed author of the bestselling Italian Fever comes a fresh twist on the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, a novel told from the perspective of Mary Reilly, Dr. Jekyll's dutiful and intelligent housemaid.
Faithfully weaving in details from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, Martin introduces an original and captivating character... Read more >
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Italian Fever
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2000
Price: $13.00
"Acutely observed...charmingly old-fashioned."--Los Angeles Times
In Italian Fever, Valerie Martin redefines the Gothic novel in a compelling tale of one woman's headlong tumble into a mystery, art, and eros.
Part romance, part gothic suspense story and wholly entertaining, Italian Fever is the story of the awakening of Lucy Stark, an American pragmatist. Lucy... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2000
Price: $13.00
"Acutely observed...charmingly old-fashioned."--Los Angeles Times
In Italian Fever, Valerie Martin redefines the Gothic novel in a compelling tale of one woman's headlong tumble into a mystery, art, and eros.
Part romance, part gothic suspense story and wholly entertaining, Italian Fever is the story of the awakening of Lucy Stark, an American pragmatist. Lucy... Read more >
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The Great Divorce
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $14.00
Three surprising women, their lives riven by divorce both literal and metaphorical: Ellen Clayton, reeling from her husband’s decision to leave her after twenty years, finds meaning in caring for her teenage daughters and in her work as the veterinarian at the New Orleans Zoo. Her young assistant Camille, preyed on... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $14.00
Three surprising women, their lives riven by divorce both literal and metaphorical: Ellen Clayton, reeling from her husband’s decision to leave her after twenty years, finds meaning in caring for her teenage daughters and in her work as the veterinarian at the New Orleans Zoo. Her young assistant Camille, preyed on... Read more >
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The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $13.00
In this vital and heartbreaking collection of stories, Valerie Martin, the bestselling author of Mary Reilly and the internationally acclaimed Property, turns an unflinching eye upon artists—driven and blocked, desired and detested, infamous and sublime, as they struggle beneath the tyranny of Art to reconcile their audience with their muse.
A... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $13.00
In this vital and heartbreaking collection of stories, Valerie Martin, the bestselling author of Mary Reilly and the internationally acclaimed Property, turns an unflinching eye upon artists—driven and blocked, desired and detested, infamous and sublime, as they struggle beneath the tyranny of Art to reconcile their audience with their muse.
A... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Salvation
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2002
Price: $13.00
Inspired by the fresco cycles that depict the life of St. Francis of Assisi, acclaimed author Valerie Martin tells the life of Francesco di Pietro Bernardone in a series of vividly realized “panels” of moments both crucial and ordinary. Drawing from myriad sources and moving in reverse chronological order, she begins... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2002
Price: $13.00
Inspired by the fresco cycles that depict the life of St. Francis of Assisi, acclaimed author Valerie Martin tells the life of Francesco di Pietro Bernardone in a series of vividly realized “panels” of moments both crucial and ordinary. Drawing from myriad sources and moving in reverse chronological order, she begins... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Trespass
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2007
Price: $25.00
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2007
Price: $25.00
Chloe Dale’s life is in good order. Her only child, Toby, has started his junior year at New York University; her husband, an academic on sabbatical, is working at home on his book about the Crusades; and Chloe is busy creating illustrations for a special edition of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights...
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Confessions of Edward Day
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $15.95
Acclaimed author Valerie Martin returns with a dark comedy about love, sex, an actor's ambition, and the perils of playing a role too well.
In this fictional memoir, Valerie Martin brilliantly re-creates the seamy theater world of 1970s New York, when rents were cheap, love was free, and nudity on stage... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $15.95
Acclaimed author Valerie Martin returns with a dark comedy about love, sex, an actor's ambition, and the perils of playing a role too well.
In this fictional memoir, Valerie Martin brilliantly re-creates the seamy theater world of 1970s New York, when rents were cheap, love was free, and nudity on stage... Read more >
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Property
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.00
From the acclaimed author of Mary Reilly, a groundbreaking novel that reexamines the questions of power and resistance, violence and sex, which inform all her work.
Set in the surreal heat of the antebellum South during a slave rebellion, PROPERTY takes the form of a dramatic monologue, bringing to the page a... Read more >
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.00
From the acclaimed author of Mary Reilly, a groundbreaking novel that reexamines the questions of power and resistance, violence and sex, which inform all her work.
Set in the surreal heat of the antebellum South during a slave rebellion, PROPERTY takes the form of a dramatic monologue, bringing to the page a... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Salvation
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.00
Inspired by the fresco cycles that depict the life of St. Francis of Assisi, acclaimed author Valerie Martin tells the life of Francesco di Pietro Bernardone in a series of vividly realized “panels” of moments both crucial and ordinary. Drawing from myriad sources and moving in reverse chronological order, she begins... Read more >
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.00
Inspired by the fresco cycles that depict the life of St. Francis of Assisi, acclaimed author Valerie Martin tells the life of Francesco di Pietro Bernardone in a series of vividly realized “panels” of moments both crucial and ordinary. Drawing from myriad sources and moving in reverse chronological order, she begins... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.00
In this vital and heartbreaking collection of stories, Valerie Martin, the bestselling author of Mary Reilly and the internationally acclaimed Property, turns an unflinching eye upon artists—driven and blocked, desired and detested, infamous and sublime, as they struggle beneath the tyranny of Art to reconcile their audience with their muse.
A... Read more >
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.00
In this vital and heartbreaking collection of stories, Valerie Martin, the bestselling author of Mary Reilly and the internationally acclaimed Property, turns an unflinching eye upon artists—driven and blocked, desired and detested, infamous and sublime, as they struggle beneath the tyranny of Art to reconcile their audience with their muse.
A... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Trespass
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
Chloe Dale’s life is in good order. Her only child, Toby, has started his junior year at New York University; her husband, an academic on sabbatical, is working at home on his book about the Crusades; and Chloe is busy creating illustrations for a special edition of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights... Read more >
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
Chloe Dale’s life is in good order. Her only child, Toby, has started his junior year at New York University; her husband, an academic on sabbatical, is working at home on his book about the Crusades; and Chloe is busy creating illustrations for a special edition of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Confessions of Edward Day
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $25.00
Acclaimed author Valerie Martin returns with a dark comedy about love, sex, an actor's ambition, and the perils of playing a role too well.
In this fictional memoir, Valerie Martin brilliantly re-creates the seamy theater world of 1970s New York, when rents were cheap, love was free, and nudity on stage... Read more >
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $25.00
Acclaimed author Valerie Martin returns with a dark comedy about love, sex, an actor's ambition, and the perils of playing a role too well.
In this fictional memoir, Valerie Martin brilliantly re-creates the seamy theater world of 1970s New York, when rents were cheap, love was free, and nudity on stage... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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