FICTION
Released: May 3, 2010
"Fans of the HBO series Big Love will be pleased to see an alternate take on the multi-household problem, and lovers of good writing will find this a pleasure, period."
Unhappy families are different, quoth Leo Tolstoy--even when they're headed by the same patriarch, the situation from which Udall's (
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, 2001, etc.) latest unfolds.
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FICTION
Released: May 27, 2010
"Patented Larsson, meaning fast-paced enough to make those Jason Bourne films seem like Regency dramas."
FICTION
Released: June 1, 2010
"More than worth the wait."
A sequel to
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (1989) that sings with the sweet sensuality of its predecessor.
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FICTION
Released: June 8, 2010
"Another ambitious change of pace from talented and visionary Egan, who reinvents the novel for the 21st century while affirming its historic values."
"Time's a goon," as the action moves from the late 1970s to the early 2020s while the characters wonder what happened to their youthful selves and ideals.
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FICTION
Released: June 29, 2010
"It's as difficult to put this novel down as it is to overestimate Mitchell's virtually unparalleled mastery of dramatic construction, illuminating characterizations and insight into historical conflict and change. Comparisons to Tolstoy are inevitable, and right on the money. "
Another Booker Prize nomination is likely to greet this ambitious and fascinating fifth novel--a full-dress historical, and then some--from the prodigally gifted British author (
Black Swan Green, 2006, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: July 6, 2010
"It is extraordinary that a story which carries such a weight of sorrow is never depressing, but Norman the master craftsman pulls it off. "
Norman (best known for
The Bird Artist, 1994) scores again with this gripping account of a family ripped apart by obsession and murder.
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