FICTION
Released: Nov. 13, 2012
"Britain's foremost living novelist has written a book--often as drily funny as it is thoughtful--that somehow both subverts and fulfills every expectation its protagonist has for fiction."
A subtly and sweetly subversive novel which seems more characteristic of its author as it becomes increasingly multilayered and labyrinthine in its masterful manipulation of the relationship(s) between fiction and truth.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 5, 2012
"The deeply honest, beautiful meditations on love, grief and guilt give way to a curlicued comic-romantic mystery complete with a secret basement and assorted eccentrics."
Millet's conclusion of the trilogy that includes
How the Dead Dream (2008) and
Ghost Lights (2011) draws a detailed map of the healing process of an adulterous wife who suddenly finds herself a widow.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 23, 2012
"A sharp-tongued, sweet-natured masterpiece of Jewish family life."
From Attenberg (
The Melting Season, 2010, etc.), the deeply satisfying story of a Chicago family coming apart at the seams and weaving together at the same time.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 16, 2012
"A viral spaghetti Western; it's not Sergio Leone--or, for that matter, Michael Crichton--but it's a satisfying confection."
Cronin continues the post-apocalyptic--or, better, post-viral--saga launched with 2010's
The Passage.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"A smart showcase of a half-century's worth of pathways in fiction."
A compendium of
The Paris Review's short story hits, curated with the ambitious, aspiring writer in mind.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"A dazzling document, beautifully if most idiosyncratically drawn; in this iteration, sure to become a collector's item, though one that begs for an easier-to-handle trade edition."
A treasure trove of graphic artworks--they're too complex to be called comics--from Ware, master of angst, alienation, sci-fi and the crowded street.
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