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FICTION
Released: Sept. 22, 2009
THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD
by Margaret Atwood
"Another stimulating dystopia from this always-provocative author, whose complex, deeply involving characters inhabit a bizarre yet frighteningly believable future."
Atwood returns to the post-apocalyptic world she imagined in Oryx and Crake (2003, etc.). Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2007
Kirkus Star THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN’S UNION
by Michael Chabon
"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. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2006
Kirkus Star THE ROAD
by Cormac McCarthy
"A novel of horrific beauty, where death is the only truth."
Even within the author's extraordinary body of work, this stands as a radical achievement, a novel that demands to be read and reread. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 9, 2003
THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE
by Audrey Niffenegger
"A Love Story for educated, upper-middle-class tastes; with a movie sale to Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, it could have some of that long-ago book's commercial potential, too."
Mainstreamed time-travel romance, cleverly executed and tastefully furnished if occasionally overwrought: a first from fine newcomer Niffenegger. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: May 6, 2003
Kirkus Star ORYX AND CRAKE
by Margaret Atwood
"A landmark work of speculative fiction, comparable to A Clockwork Orange, Brave New World, and Russian revolutionary Zamyatin's We. Atwood has surpassed herself."
Environmental unconcern, genetic engineering, and bioterrorism have created the hollowed-out, haunted future world of Atwood's ingenious and disturbing 11th novel, bearing several resemblances to The Handmaid's Tale (1985). Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 22, 2000
Kirkus Star THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY
by Michael Chabon
"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). Read full book review >