NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 1999
"An anguishing account that also heals."
Brutally honest, sometimes funny vignettes about affirming faith and community in the midst of drug-induced angst.
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FICTION
Released: June 2, 2003
"Rather than settle for a coming-of-age or travails-of-immigrants story, Hosseini has folded them both into this searing spectacle of hard-won personal salvation. All this, and a rich slice of Afghan culture too: irresistible."
Here's a real find: a striking debut from an Afghan now living in the US. His passionate story of betrayal and redemption is framed by Afghanistan's tragic recent past.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 10, 2004
"A largely self-effacing souvenir and a fulsome, sincere Father's Day greeting. (16 pp. photos, not seen)"
The gimlet-eyed interlocutor of
Meet the Press is a pussycat when it comes to matters of family and faith.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2004
"Robinson has composed, with its cascading perfections of symbols, a novel as big as a nation, as quiet as thought, and moving as prayer. Matchless and towering."
The wait since 1981 and
Housekeeping is over. Robinson returns with a second novel that, however quiet in tone and however delicate of step, will do no less than tell the story of America--and break your heart.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 7, 2005
"A straight-up account of masculinity, maturity and memory that leaves a smile on the face and an ache in the heart."
It takes a gin mill to raise a child--or so one might think from this memoir filled with gladness by a Pulitzer Prize–winning
Los Angeles Times correspondent.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 19, 2005
"A potent depiction of grief, but also a book lacking the originality and acerbic prose that distinguished Didion's earlier writing."
A moving record of Didion's effort to survive the death of her husband and the near-fatal illness of her only daughter.
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