Yours, Jean
Lee Martin
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
Product Details
Price
$26.95
$25.06
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Publish Date
May 26, 2020
Pages
288
Dimensions
5.59 X 8.58 X 0.94 inches | 0.95 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781950539147
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About the Author
Lee Martin is the author of five novels, including The Bright Forever, a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. He has also published three memoirs and two short story collections, most recently The Mutual UFO Network, in addition to the craft book, Telling Stories. He is the winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. He teaches in the MFA Program at The Ohio State University.
Reviews
"Written with a deep and wide-ranging compassion that is rare these days, Yours, Jean is a mesmerizingly beautiful novel. Whether he is writing from the point of view of a lonesome middle-aged mother, or a young woman beginning her life with expectant joy and wonder, or a confused teenage boy or girl, or men and women trying to find themselves in any way they can, even if that means harming another, Lee Martin evokes them all with a breathtakingly poetic grace that penetrates the essential mystery of what it means to be human. Lee Martin is a master, and Yours, Jean is one of the finest novels I've read in years."
--Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog "Readers expect either a true-crime page turner or a literary novel of exquisite prose--unless Lee Martin is doing the writing, and then they get both. In Yours, Jean ancient passions burn through the facade of small-town grace in a story that simply won't let go, as Lee Martin proves again why he is one of the most gifted writers of our time."
--Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean "Like his highly acclaimed The Bright Forever, Lee Martin's latest novel, Yours, Jean, is based on a true crime. And, like that earlier narrative, a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, the interplay of rich details and raw emotions that Martin so masterfully unfolds in his latest novel makes you ache for the lonely men and women he tenderly brings to life in this powerful story about a murder and the lasting impact it has on a close-knit community."
--Linda Kass, Gramercy Books
--Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog "Readers expect either a true-crime page turner or a literary novel of exquisite prose--unless Lee Martin is doing the writing, and then they get both. In Yours, Jean ancient passions burn through the facade of small-town grace in a story that simply won't let go, as Lee Martin proves again why he is one of the most gifted writers of our time."
--Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean "Like his highly acclaimed The Bright Forever, Lee Martin's latest novel, Yours, Jean, is based on a true crime. And, like that earlier narrative, a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, the interplay of rich details and raw emotions that Martin so masterfully unfolds in his latest novel makes you ache for the lonely men and women he tenderly brings to life in this powerful story about a murder and the lasting impact it has on a close-knit community."
--Linda Kass, Gramercy Books
