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Larry Watson's Books
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White CrossesLarry Watson's previous fiction evoking contemporary Western small-town life has won him awards, a dedicated readership, and unqualified critical...Read More
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In a Dark TimeA powerful voice in contemporary American fiction, Larry Watson is the award-winning author of Montana 1948, hailed as "a work of art" (San Francisco...Read More
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 25, 2012
...Roland Merullo. Two books with Wisconsin connections were on the list of nominees published by YALSA: Milwaukee novelist Larry Watson's "American Boy" and Nina Revoyr's "Wingshooters," which is set in central Wisconsin. What: Rooms with a view Why: Come...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 13, 2011
...Hemingway, Salinger and Classics Illustrated comics. He was born in North Dakota and now lives in Wisconsin, but Larry Watson has set several of his books in between the two, in Minnesota, including his latest, "American Boy," published this fall by...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 30, 2011
...once did: Chad Harbach, Margot Peters, Thomas Kiedrowski, Valerie Laken, Nina Revoyr, Jennifer Shaw, Craig Thompson, Alex Bledsoe, Larry Watson, Margaret George, Rebecca Rasmussen and Kim Wilson...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 26, 2011
..._ FICTION "AMERICAN BOY" by Larry Watson (Milkweed Editions, $24) After a lengthy hiatus, the author of "Montana 1948" is back with a coming-of-age tale about a 17-year-old boy in rural Minnesota in the 1960s. Matthew...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 25, 2011
...Tennessee people and the return home of an angry wounded Iraq war vet. "American Boy" (Milkweed Editions), by Larry Watson. Milwaukee novelist Watson's new book, set in Minnesota in 1962, pits a strong-willed teen narrator against a powerful small-town...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 24, 2011
...Daniel Goldin's Boswell and Books blog post earlier this week reminded me that Larry Watson's new novel, 'American Boy' (Milkweed Editions), begins at a Thanksgiving dinner in 1962. Matthew Garth, the stray teen who's joined the Dunbar family for the...
School Library Journal, November 4, 2011
...Author Larry Watson returns to Milkweed Press for the publication of his new novel. He has written about adolescence before, most famously in Montana 1948 (Milkweed 1993). Montana 1948 is assigned in...
Book Group Buzz - Discussion of Book Clubs, Readin, June 8, 2011
...film noir, talking about some of my favorite crime and mystery books (Thomas H. Cook, Minette Walters and Larry Watson) as well as creating a 1936 Bouchercon Mystery Convention in which I covered the best books written in 1936 and impersonated Dashiell...
KevinfromCanada, May 24, 2011
...outstanding books that I feel I have not done justice to on the first, too quick read-through. With Larry Watson's novel, not only did I take several days for the first read, I immediately went back to the start when I did finish it -- and spread that...
