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
"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. 3, 2011
"In rueful, witty, unpredictable and compassionate prose, Enright gives expression to subtle, affecting shades of human interaction."
An adulterous love affair and Ireland's financial collapse overlap in the consistently impressive latest from the Man Booker Prize winner.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 11, 2011
"Dazzling work—Eugenides continues to show that he is one of the finest of contemporary novelists."
A stunning novel—erudite, compassionate and penetrating in its analysis of love relationships.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2011
A historical novel with a timeless theme--the inhumanly human brutality of war and the attempt to sustain a life of compassion and grace in response to it.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 4, 2011
"A close, yes--but with wiggle room for more Acacian adventures. At any rate, on the strength of this installment, Durham's many fans will be clamoring for more."
Durham (
Gabriel's Story, 2002, etc.) brings his sci-fi Acacia Trilogy to a satisfying close.
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