Varley O'Connor

At home in Ohio with feline literary critic.

Works

The Cure
“This sublimely written novel takes on large issues such as illness, race, family relations, and the varieties of human love. Honesty and compassion inform every page, and there are passages so musical and full of grace they read like hymns. Reading groups should rejoice at this book.”
--Sigrid Nunez, author of The Last of Her Kind


A Company of Three
“An old-fashioned novel, in the best sense of that phrase, elegantly wrought, hard-headed, and tenderhearted about the world of actors and theater.”
--Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay


Like China
“ ...O’Connor has put together a story about loss, betrayal, growing up and the often-peculiar nature of relationships. If that sounds like a lot for one novel, maybe it is... But this book works anyway, simply because O’Connor’s many-faceted, carefully wrought characters are absolutely compelling.”
--Victoria Diaz, Michigan’s Observer Eccentric


Selected Works

Fiction
The Cure
A novel about a family bound together and almost torn apart by a son’s polio.
A Company of Three
A bittersweet elegy of three actor friends facing the realities of their dreams.
Like China
A woman’s liberation from an abusive husband, set in the Hamptons and New York City.

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