FICTION
Released: May 15, 2012
"Immediate, poignant and rarely predictable, this searchingly observant work captures a huge terrain of personal aspiration against a shifting historical and social background. Impressive. "
The architecture of a family, constructed over decades, through relationships, wars and secrets, is assembled with fine detail and insight in an exceptional 20th-century saga.
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FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"Theroux has recaptured the sweep and density of his 1981 masterpiece The Mosquito Coast. That's some achievement. "
A joyful return to Africa turns into a nightmare for the elderly American protagonist of Theroux's extraordinary novel.
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FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"At the start of the novel's coda, when Dell explains that he teaches his students "books that to me seem secretly about my young life," he begins the list with The Heart of Darkness and The Great Gatsby. Such comparisons seem well-earned."
FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"A sardonically appealing debut for a detective who assures his long-suffering grandson, "I care about people. I just don't like them.""
A geezer cowboy who's been retired from Memphis Homicide longer than he served there is thrust into the middle of a murderous hunt for Nazi plunder.
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FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"A literary page-turner."
FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"A slim novel with a taut narrative line and a sense of impending disaster. "
A tale of identity and tense personal relationships, one that as a film property would have appealed to Hitchcock or de Palma.
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