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Pub Date: Nov 1, 2010
With a plot that encompasses war in the Middle East, economic recession and the perils of the publishing industry, a contemporary vitality distinguishes the latest from the veteran author.
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Pub Date: Oct 12, 2010
From National Book Award finalist Straight (Highwire Moon, 2001, etc.), a searing, ultimately redemptive novel about America's legacy of racial violence and a woman's struggle to forge her own identity.
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Pub Date: Oct 5, 2010
Darkness engulfs a family and a nation, in a psychologically acute addition to the literature of Germany's downfall; the book was an international bestseller and won the German Book Prize.
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Pub Date: Oct 5, 2010
Another literary high-wire performance by a novelist who is establishing himself as a unique voice in contemporary fiction.
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Pub Date: Oct 1, 2010
From novelist and short-story writer Nelson (Nothing Right, 2009, etc.), a brief, sorrowfully comic novel about family dysfunction that considers everyone's contribution--parents, children, spouses, even pets.
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Pub Date: Sep 23, 2010
Young, intelligent African-Americans become vehicles for their own undoing in this collection of eight stories.
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