Maureen Howard is a writer who matters, whose every novel is anticipated as a passionately intelligent inquiry into the state of the American soul, and as an addition to the literature of our time. Now, in Natural History, she gives us her masterwork, a gorgeous display of storytelling - enchanting, bawdy, and profound.

Natural History: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

HOWARD, Maureen

United States

Perennial

Abandoning the conventional chronology of autobiographies, the author groups memories and events around such themes as money, culture, and sex, marking the paths she traveled to discover her own voice and her own art

Facts of Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Penguin Group USA

Laura Quinn, contented mother and successful journalist, is prompted to reassess her past, her world, and her values as a result of conversations with her visiting teenage nephew, Jimmy Cogan

Before My Time (The Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)

Penguin??Books

Mary Agnes Keely is finally leaving home, ditching her Irish Catholic upbringing, her widowed mother, and the emptiness of small-town life for the chaos of Manhattan. Her journey will alter many lives: Lydia, whose crazed husband is confined at Shay Acres; Stanley, the dreaming commercial artist who brings his eager body to her virginal bed; and a ragtag array of artists and poets. Choosing her own way, Mary Agnes taps hidden resources in a gradual process of creative self-discovery realizing triumphantly that "it was no great sin to be, at last, alone."Stylistically original, laced with Howard's characteristic irony and sharp wit, Bridgeport Bus illustrates why "Maureen Howard belongs on any list of the best American novelist practicing today" (Robie Maccauley, Chicago Sun-Times).

Bridgeport Bus

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Not a Word About Nightingales

Gathers essays about politics, science, culture, history, religion, patriotism, ecology, and literature

Contemporary American Essays

Maud Dowd and her daughter, Elizabeth, search for the meaning of their lives amidst tragedy, fantasy, and misconceptions, past and present, about their families, each other, and themselves

Grace Abounding (The Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)

Expensive habits: A novel (Contemporary American fiction)

Expensive Habits

Recent American social and political history is illuminated in an account of the life of writer Maggie Flood, whose two marriages and career launched her into the rarefied worlds of politics, the arts, and popular culture.

One of the preeminent novelists of our time, Maureen Howard dazzles us with a love story of radiant intelligence and delicious wit. The exhilarating flights and emotional depths of Howard's storytelling balance the fates of two young lovers in New York: Artie, a bastard, perhaps "begot in the mud of Woodstock," now a boyish computer wizard; and Louise, a hot new painter out of the Midwest, seriously committed to her art. Their romance, seemingly shattered on the eve of the millennium, is played out against the tale of two old lovers lost to each other for a half century. As these two couples search through the cultural flotsam and jetsam for love and happiness, Howard spins a superb novel of ideas and transforms, as only she can, the dear Old Farmer's Almanac into a bright book of life.

A Lover's Almanac: A Novel

Penguin Publishing Group

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