Bellevue Literary Press
The Caricaturist (The American Novels)
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Oliver Fischer is an art student and general ne’er-do-well in 1897 Philadelphia. On a lark (Oliver does almost everything on a lark), he ...Read Review
Life After Kafka
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This unusual literary blend of fact and fiction tells the story of Felice Bauer, one-time fiancée to Franz Kafka, and the invaluable ...Read Review
Flight of the Wild Swan
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This powerful biographical novel of Florence Nightingale starts with Florence, an upper-class child in Victorian England, being called by her governess “a little ...Read Review
Ravage & Son
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With biting humor and fierce tenderness, Jerome Charyn builds the world of Manhattan’s Lower East Side Jewish ghetto from 1883 onward, rife with ...Read Review
Like the Appearance of Horses
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In 1933, a young Romani boy named Bexhet escapes fascist Hungary for the mountains of Pennsylvania, in search of Jozef Vinich, a man who ...Read Review
The Ice Harp (The American Novels)
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A reader would have to be a dedicated fan of Ralph Waldo Emerson to appreciate this novel. It is 1879, Concord, Massachusetts. Lock’s ...Read Review
Voices in the Dead House (The American Novels)
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The ninth installment in Lock’s The American Novels series brings together literary giants Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott. It is 1863, and ...Read Review
City of Incurable Women
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Paris’s Salpêtrière Hospital began as a gunpowder factory; by the 1600s, it had been repurposed into a care/work facility ...Read Review
Tooth of the Covenant (The American Novels)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne had some less than hidden skeletons in the family closet – he was the great-great-grandson of John Hathorne, one of the foremost ...Read Review
Sergeant Salinger
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This fictionalized account of J. D. Salinger’s WWII years and recovery (1942-47) opens in New York City. He lives with his parents ...Read Review
