NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"An unfailingly elegant and thoughtful collection of essays from the formidable mind of Franzen, written with passion and haunted by loss."
FICTION
Released: April 4, 2008
"An eye for detail, ear for dialogue and command of family dynamics distinguish this uncommonly rich collection."
Lahiri (
The Namesake, 2003, etc.) extends her mastery of the short-story format in a collection that has a novel's thematic cohesion, narrative momentum and depth of character.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 30, 2007
"Ridiculously entertaining. If the movie people don't snap this one up, somebody's asleep at the switch."
In his ongoing crusade to reanimate tales of adventure set in days of yore, Chabon (
The Yiddish Policemen's Union, 2007, etc.) offers an ebullient yarn that blithely defies probability, while plundering from innumerable semi-literary sources.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2007
"A page-turning noir, with a twist of Yiddish, that satisfies on many levels."
Imagine a mutant strain of Dashiell Hammett crossed with Isaac Bashevis Singer, as one of the most imaginative contemporary novelists extends his fascination with classic pulp.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 5, 2006
"Quirky, funny, poignant, self-deprecating and ultimately wise."
Novelist Franzen (
The Corrections, 2001, etc.) displays his mastery of nonfiction in this compact, affecting memoir, which begins with the aftermath of his mother's death and ends with a quiet epiphany about love.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 16, 2003
"A disappointingly bland follow-up to a stellar story collection."
A first novel from Pulitzer-winner Lahiri (stories:
Interpreter of Maladies, 1999) focuses on the divide between Indian immigrants and their Americanized children.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 2002
"This raucous, exhilarating, joyful, and, above all, fun offering displays an enormous respect for the tradition of great fantasies that come before it, from Irving, Baum, and Nesbit, to Lewis, Tolkien, and Pullman, while confidently taking its place beside them. (Fiction. 10+)"
"Well, we got no choice, an' that's a fact. The Rade has showed up, years before we ever done expected them, and yer about ten years shy o' half-cooked, but we got no choice.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2001
"A wide-angled view of contemporary America and its discontents that deserves comparison with Dos Passos's U.S.A., if not with Tolstoy. One of the most impressive American novels of recent years."
The recent brouhaha about the death of realistic fiction may well be put to rest by Franzen's stunning third novel: a symphonic exploration of family dynamics and social conflict and change that leaps light-years beyond its critically praised predecessors
The Twenty-Seventh City (1998) and
Strong Motion (1992).
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 22, 2000
"A tale of two magnificently imagined characters, and a plaintive love song to (and vivid re-creation of) the fractious ethnic energy of New York City a half century ago. "
A stroke of sheer conceptual genius links the themes of illusion and escape with that of the European immigrant experience of America in this huge, enthralling third novel from the author of
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988) and
Wonder Boys (1994).
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 1995
"Funny and wise, not to mention a great read. (Author tour)"
Himself a former wonder boy, Chabon (The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, 1988, etc.) realizes his obvious talents with this mature and hilarious novel.
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