FICTION
Released: March 1, 2012
"The beginning, one suspects, of a fine career."
From a young Southern writer of note, a top-notch debut collection of stories, most of them revolving around motherhood, animals and conflicting loyalties.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 21, 2012
"Not every story has an environmental undercurrent, but it's hard to miss the warning in the collection as a whole."
Short and sharp, the latest stories from the award-winning British author are as pointed as ever, with many of them pointed toward imminent ecological disaster.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 15, 2012
"The author at his best."
Parables of emotional complexity and moral ambiguity, with lessons that are neither easy nor obvious, by a short-story master (For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, 1999, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 7, 2012
"A fresh voice from a writer who deserves discovery."
Psychologically acute, often very funny and only occasionally glib, these stories show great promise, though a few of the dozen in this debut collection are almost as slight as the best are compelling.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 31, 2012
"An introduction to a promising writer who knows how to get a reader's attention, though he occasionally has trouble sticking the landing."
Unusual culture clashes between the Philippines and the West drive this intimate and admirably controlled debut story collection.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 11, 2011
"Lovely and lyrical--a celebration of language and another virtuoso performance from a writer who does indeed deserve to be better known."
Elegant, lapidary stories that beg Ann Patchett's question in the introduction: "Why isn't Edith Pearlman famous?"
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