Stephen Harrigan

• Feb-1980
• / General Fiction
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“Beneath the genial surface” of this “resonant” first novel about a dolphin trainer who struggles with the ethics of his job “allusive undercurrents tug” (The New York Times Book Review).   A critically acclaimed debut novel first pu...

• Jul-1985
• / General Fiction
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A novel about a love triangle with characters “motivated by a need to overcome loneliness and . . . retrieve submerged passions . . . Deeply moving and wise” (Publishers Weekly).   A passionate, emotionally inte...

• Jun-1995
• / General Fiction
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The worlds Harrigan describes in these essays may be vanishing, but his writing invests them with an enduring reality. He ranges over topics from the past glories and modern-day travails of America's most legendary Indian tribe to the poisoning of Au...

• Mar-2000
• / Historical
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A huge, riveting, deeply imagined novel about the siege and fall of the Alamo, an event that formed the consciousness of Texas and that resonates through American history. With its vibrant, unexpected characters and its richness of authentic detail, ...

• Apr-2006
• / Suspense
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At the novel's center: Lucy Kincheloe, an astronaut married to an astronaut, the loving mother of two young children, with a fierce ambition to excel in the space program. Her husband, Brian, a rigorous man whose dreams of glory have been blighted by...

• Jun-2011
• / General Fiction
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From the author of the acclaimed best seller The Gates of the Alamo, a new novel that confirms and enlarges Stephen Harrigan's reputation as a major voice in American fiction. Francis "Gil" Gilheaney is a sculptor of boundless ambition. But bad fo...

• Nov-2012
• / General Fiction
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Writing timeless essays that capture vanished worlds and elusive perceptions, Stephen Harrigan is emerging as a national voice with an ever-expanding circle of enthusiastic readers. For those who have already experienced the pleasures of his writing ...

• Feb-2016
• / Historical
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The author of the best-selling "The Gates of the Alamo" now gives us a galvanizing portrait of Abraham Lincoln during a crucially revealing period of his life, the early Springfield years, when he risked both his sanity and his ethical bearings as he...

• Oct-2019
• / General Fiction
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History -- natural history, human history, and personal history -- and place are the cornerstones of The Eye of the Mammoth. Stephen Harrigan's career has taken him from the Alaska Highway to the Chihuahuan Desert, from the casinos of Monaco to hi...

• Jan-2022
• / Psychological Suspense
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The fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a young boy’s world explodes one summer day when a leopard escapes from the Oklahoma City zoo, throwing all the local residents into dangerous excitement, in this evocative story of a child’s confrontation...