FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"Whether recent or from his earliest period, these pieces show Alexie at his best: as an interpreter and observer, always funny if sometimes angry, and someone, as a cop says of one of his characters, who doesn't "fit the profile of the neighborhood.""
Sterling collection of short stories by Alexie (
Ten Little Indians, 2003, etc.), a master of the form.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"Where earlier novels provide a better introduction to Hole, this one best takes the full measure of the man."
The internationally popular detective series by the Norwegian author builds to a blockbuster climax.
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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. 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: 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: 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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