Scott O'Connor

• Oct-2020
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A literary thriller about an infamous desert art installation, the cult it inspired, and the search for a missing young woman. Los Angeles, the late 1970s: Jess Shepard is an installation artist who creates environments that focus on light and spa...

• Feb-2018
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From the author of the critically acclaimed novels Untouchable and Half World comes a new, breathtaking short-story collection in the tradition of Annie Proulx's Close Range and Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. A young musician trapped bene...

• Feb-2018
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Scott O'Connor's novels have been hailed as "astonishing" (Library Journal), and "so insistently stirring, you want to lean in close to catch every word" (The New York Times Book Review). Now, from the author of Untouchable and Half World comes A Per...

• Feb-2014
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In the 1950s, the CIA began a clandestine operation known as Project MKULTRA, in which unwitting American citizens were subjected to insidious drug and mind-control experiments. In the two decades the program ran, a nation's trust was betrayed and co...

• Sep-2013
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Midway through his summer vacation, eight year-old Huddie Blaylock suddenly realizes the reason for his recent, nagging paranoia: his normal, if slightly dysfunctional family has been replaced by imposters. Possessing the inflexible determination of ...

• May-2011
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"Scott O'Connor speaks softly and somehow manages to make something beautiful of unspeakable matters... a voice so insistently stirring, you want to lean in close to catch every word." -- The New York Times Book Review"Astonishing... Introducing an ...