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BROWSE BOOK REVIEWS




2012 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize Finalists (page 2)


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Cover art for THE DOG STARS
FICTION
Released: Aug. 7, 2012

"Although Heller creates with chilling efficiency the bleakness of a world largely bereft of life as we know it, he holds out some hope that human relationships can be redemptive."
A post-apocalyptic novel in which Hig, who only goes by this mononym, finds not only survival, but also the possibility of love. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE YELLOW BIRDS
FICTION
Released: Sept. 11, 2012

"Powers writes with a rawness that brings the sights and smells as well as the trauma and decay of war home to the reader. "
A novel about the poetry and the pity of war. Read full book review >