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Best Fiction of 2012: The Top 25 (page 4)

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FICTION
Released: April 3, 2012
Kirkus Star THE COLDEST NIGHT
by Robert Olmstead
"An exceptionally fine study of love, war and the double-edged role of memory, which can both sustain and destroy. Prize-winning material."
It's extremes that rivet us in Olmstead's searing seventh novel: the heaven of first love; the hell of the battlefield. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: April 10, 2012
Kirkus Star THE COVE
by Ron Rash
"Even better than the bestselling Serena (2008), for here Rash has elevated melodrama to tragedy. "
Lonely young woman meets mysterious stranger. What might have been trite and formulaic is anything but in Rash's fifth novel, a dark tale of Appalachian superstition and jingoism so good it gives you chills. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: April 17, 2012
Kirkus Star WISH YOU WERE HERE
by Graham Swift

A novel as contemporary as international terrorism and the war in Iraq and as timeless as mortality, from one of Britain's literary masters. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: June 26, 2012
Kirkus Star THE AGE OF MIRACLES
by Karen Thompson Walker
"Riveting, heartbreaking, profoundly moving."
In Walker's stunning debut, a young California girl coming-of-age in a dystopian near future confronts the inevitability of change on the most personal level as life on earth withers. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: June 12, 2012
Kirkus Star BEAUTIFUL RUINS
by Jess Walter
"A superb romp. "
Hollywood operators and creative washouts collide across five decades and two continents in a brilliant, madcap meditation on fate. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
Kirkus Star BUILDING STORIES
by Chris Ware
"A dazzling document, beautifully if most idiosyncratically drawn; in this iteration, sure to become a collector's item, though one that begs for an easier-to-handle trade edition."
A treasure trove of graphic artworks--they're too complex to be called comics--from Ware, master of angst, alienation, sci-fi and the crowded street. Read full book review >