FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2011
"A lovely, lively novel for all its sometimes bitter view of the war between the sexes; impeccably written, and without a false note."
Man Booker Prize winner Jacobson (
The Finkler Question, 2010, etc.) delivers a cross-the-pond rejoinder to Philip Roth in this entertaining, sexually laden picaresque.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2011
"Virgil fully deserves to have Willard Pye kiss his ass."
A methodical bomber gives Virgil Flowers a welcome chance to recover from his atypically bombastic last outing (Bad Blood, 2010, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2011
"Delaney keeps all of the incipient tragedy beautifully and heartbreakingly balanced through artful plotting and an unadorned but graceful prose style."
Broken Irish Americans from South Boston, that is—and there's plenty of brokenness to go around at the turn of the 21st century.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2011
"A delectable serving of Tudor dish."
Another "historical entertainment" from Erickson, in which the third wife of Henry VIII has her say.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2011
"Elegiac, mature and nostalgic--a fine evocation of childhood, and of days irretrievably past."
A graceful, closely observed novel that blends coming-of-age tropes with a Conradian sea voyage.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2011
"Idiosyncratic, outlandish--and a good read."
Barth delivers a slim postmodern novel about--what else?--a postmodern novelist experiencing a series of uncanny coincidences and visions.
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