VIRGINS (a novel of coming of age) Published online,Diversion Books, 2013, Audible version, (Amazon) 2013; Hardcover, St. Martin's Press l984; Pocket Books l985; Japan, Hayakawa; UK, Andre Deutsch; Sweden, Norstedts; Germany, Ullstein; Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club selection. Critically acclaimed bestseller which sold half a million copies in the U.S. ("Few writers are as funny and none funnier, yet she is capable of wrenching your heart and soul"--Chicago Tribune..."Brilliantly comic"--London Times.)
GIRLS NO MORE: (a novel about Washington politics and journalism . Published online by Diversion Books, 2013, Audible version, (Amazon) 2013.St.Martin's press, l986, as GIRLS FOREVER BRAVE AND TRUE Paperback, Pocket books, l987. UK, Andre Deutsch; Sweden, Wiken; Germany ,Ullstein.Literary Guild and Doubleday book club selection. ("What a pleasure...as fresh as today's headlines... New York Times book Review.)
INTIMATE ENEMIES: A fast moving, very entertaining novel about the most important events of our time--Boston Globe.. Packs a powerful emotional wallop while it delivers a heart-warming message about the power of human love--Chattanooga Times...Love is never easy. And rarely is it as funny as in Caryl Rivers very contemporary fifth novel...when the son of the chairman of the board of the college trustees goes onstage at the strip joint billing himself as the Golden Cucumber... well, that's funny! --Baltimore Sun...Delayed stress syndrome is the forgotten landmine that is touched off in this Post-Vietnam love story...Humor, heartbreak and hope get equal time in this affecting piece of fiction. Intimate Enemies is a distillation of war--from grandiose epic to human aftermath--Seattle Times.
CAMELOT: Some shining moments of fictional Kennedy... Rivers is superb at period details and capturing the tenor of the times. Rivers’ evocation of the way it was is worth the price of admission--Cleveland Plain Dealer...Against a backdrop of growing racial unrest and Kennedy idealism, this novel adroitly blends fact with fiction in an artful mix --Chicago Tribune ..Resounding triumphs....The real life Kennedy becomes the most intriguing personage in the book. She limns his lifelong struggle to escape his powerful father’s Irish/Old World ways, his early fear of never emerging from his older brother’s shadow--Boston Globe
INDECENT BEHAVIOR: A stylish bio tech thriller ... has you totally in its grasp. The finale is hair-raising! Rivers displays to good effect her streetwise, culturally hip sense of humor-- New York Daily News Rivers has a very deft hand with prose and a gift for witty dialogue, assets that make it a pleasure to read Indecent Behavior-the bio tech plot, which leaves the FBI, CIA and government looking sleazy and sordid, moves quickly in and around Boston, surprising the reader with its twists and turns ... a great novel and a genuine pleasure to read--Boston Herald. Rivers tries her hand at a bio-tech thriller, with slickly professional results. Rivers is as amusing as ever, and her leading couple make fine company indeed.” Kirkus
