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FICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2009
TINKERS
by Paul Harding
"An evocative meditation on the nonlinear nature of a life."
Elderly New Englander on his deathbed finds his thoughts drifting back to the father who abandoned the family when he was 12. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2004
Kirkus Star GILEAD
by Marilynne Robinson
"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. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 16, 2003
Kirkus Star MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS
by Tracy Kidder
"Skilled and graceful exploration of the soul of an astonishing human being."
Full-immersion journalist Kidder (Home Town, 1999, etc.) tries valiantly to keep up with a front-line, muddy-and-bloody general in the war against infectious disease in Haiti and elsewhere. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2000
SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT PENN WARREN: VOL. I: THE APPRENTICE YEARS, 1924-1934
by Robert Penn Warren, edited by William Bedford Clark
" Useful for scholars and for admirers of Warren's work who are very familiar with the author's life and career. (b&w photos, not seen)"
Ten years of essentially unrevealing letters from a formative period of the poet and novelist best known for All the King's Men and as the first Poet Laureate of the United States. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 1998
THE HOURS
by Michael Cunningham
"Hardly a false note in an extraordinary carrying on of a true greatness that doubted itself."
Steeped in the work and life of Virginia Woolf, Cunningham (Flesh and Blood, 1995, etc.) offers up a sequel to the work of the great author, complete with her own pathos and brilliance. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 1998
MARKING THE SPARROW'S FALL: WALLACE STEGNER'S AMERICAN WEST
by Wallace Stegner
"For readers who are new to Stegner's environmental work, this is as good an introduction as any."
A greatest-hits package from the late dean of western American letters. Read full book review >