FICTION
Released: May 3, 2010
"Fans of the HBO series Big Love will be pleased to see an alternate take on the multi-household problem, and lovers of good writing will find this a pleasure, period."
Unhappy families are different, quoth Leo Tolstoy--even when they're headed by the same patriarch, the situation from which Udall's (
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, 2001, etc.) latest unfolds.
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FICTION
Released: March 12, 2010
"It's hard to resist using the word "symphonic" to describe this exquisitely composed, piercingly moving story. De Moor continues to scale increasingly impressive heights."
This fifth translated novel from the Dutch classical singer-turned-novelist (
The Kreutzer Sonata, 2005, etc.) offers a moving dramatization of a historical catastrophe which bears disturbing resemblances to recent global occurrences.
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FICTION
Released: March 9, 2010
"The author's most ambitious work yet--a brilliant and scabrously entertaining riff on contemporary America."
FICTION
Released: Feb. 2, 2010
"An icy, disturbing and masterfully composed study of guilt, loss and regret--quite possibly the author's finest yet. "
Moving a step beyond the disturbing symbolism of
Falling Man (2007, etc.), DeLillo ruminates teasingly on a tendency toward obliteration perhaps locked into the DNA of all living things.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 12, 2010
"Thoughtful and bracingly unpredictable, though the lack of a resolution is frustrating. "
Gilded young go-getter creates, not always legally, a cocoon for his family in Dee's mostly buoyant fifth novel about money, family and mortality.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 11, 2010
" Vintage Stone. Enough said."
Alienated, angry outsiders stalk the dangerous edges of their unraveling lives in the great American novelist's collection of grim short fiction.
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