FICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2013
"Smart, comic, unsettling, yet strangely of a piece--not unlike its disarming lead character."
A man's collapsed marriage and growing madness imperils his young daughter in this bracing third novel by Gaige (
The Folded World, 2007, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 8, 2013
"A tantalizing introduction."
First of a trilogy about virtue compromised and beauty commodified, set in late-18th-century England.
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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. 2, 2012
"Profoundly imaginative, strikingly original, deeply moving. "
The dark, silent, forbidding Ohio River flows like a line of moral demarcation in Hunt's (
The Exquisite, 2006, etc.) latest literary foray.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"Josefson writes vigorously and is well attuned to the upheavals experienced by adolescents."
Most of the goings-on at Roaring Orchards School in upstate New York are not academic but instead personal and chaotic.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"A fine adult love story--not in the prurient sense, but in the sense of lovers elevated from smittenness to all the grown-up problems that a relationship can bring."
Elegant, elegiac novel of life in postwar America, at once realistic and aspirational, by the ever-accomplished Helprin (
A Soldier of the Great War, 1991, etc.).
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