FICTION
Released: April 23, 2010
"Quirky and erudite, but the payoff in human-interest terms is meager."
A New World historical novel from Carey, the two-time Australian-born winner of the Man Booker prize.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2010
"Her most ferocious novel since the Pulitzer Prize–winning A Thousand Acres (1991) and every bit as good. "
Smiley roars back from the disappointing
Ten Days in the Hills (2007) with a scarifying tale of stifling marriage and traumatizing losses.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 27, 2010
"A slim novel that's heavy on philosophy."
The latest from the Nobel Peace Prize–winning author of
Night(1960) asks big questions about good and evil, art and reality, yet ultimately finds its narrator concluding, "Suddenly, I don't understand anything anymore. Why life? Why death?"
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2010
"Glass's perfect plot gives each character his or her due, in an irresistible pastoral tragicomedy that showcases the warmth and wisdom of one of America's finest novelists, approaching if not already arrived at her peak."
FICTION
Released: Oct. 12, 2010
Le Carré uses still another aspect of international relations in the new world order--the powerful, equivocal position of money launderers to the Russian mob--to put a new spin on a favorite theme: the betrayal that inevitably follows from sharply divided loyalties.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 12, 2010
"Not your father's anti-terrorism yarn. Leonard's characters make James Bond look fidgety."
Leonard's company of stock character types--the veteran law enforcer, the savvy professional woman, the seen-it-all sidekick, the horny billionaire--are so cool that they can confront international terrorism without batting an eyelash.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 12, 2010
"For it is within these short novels that Roth tackles nothing less than the human condition, which finds its nemesis in the mirror."
For those who monitor the growing list of books by Philip Roth, his forthcoming, Nemesis, presents a revelation as startling as the discovery of a planet or the alignment of a new constellation.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 16, 2010
"A celebration of storytelling, a possible prequel to the book Rushdie is said to be writing about his own enforced "slumber," and a colorful, kick-up-your-heels delight."
Rushdie's 11th novel is a sequel to his charming 1990 fable
Haroun and the Sea of Stories, written--as was its predecessor--for one of its author's two sons.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2010
"A bullet of a book--and an absolute bull's eye."
Murder and mayhem are served up alongside metaphysical musings in Rice's latest (
Angel Time, 2009, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 4, 2011
"A compelling novel by one of the masters of contemporary fiction."
A novel of substance about friendship, philosophy and politics set in the "thousand-headed hydra of Mexico City" from the prolific pen of distinguished man of letters Fuentes (
The Death of Artemio Cruz, 2009, etc.).
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