FICTION
Released: March 25, 2011
"The narrator of one story in this collection writes that, when the weather rages, communication is "reduced to hand signals with mittens." Some of this writing feels like that."
A story collection of expansive postmodernism that combines bursts of humor with flashes of tragedy.
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FICTION
Released: May 21, 2007
"A patchy, occasionally predictable collection, but Simpson and her material are, at their best, a perfect match. "
Relationships, death and motoring connect 11 pithy stories by a celebrated British doyenne of the form.
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FICTION
Released: May 25, 2006
"Searing but incomplete coming-of-age novel; the characters are strongly outlined but the author fails to fill them out."
Headstrong daughter of a widowed, drug-addicted ne'er-do-well experiences adolescence in a blue-collar Chicago suburb in the 1960s and '70s.
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FICTION
Released: May 4, 2004
"A splendid realization of its rich subject, and Tuck's best so far."
The notorious Irish courtesan who also inspired Anne Enright's
The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch presides regally over Tuck's impressively researched, lushly written latest.
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2010
"Though the author teaches at Vassar, these stories have a lot more punch and life than academic, creative-writing exercises."
FICTION
Released: Jan. 28, 2002
"Silly, aimless, and pretentious: Rapture reads like notes for a novel that the author had the good sense to abandon."
A loose and discursive novella by Minot (
Evening, 1998, etc.), who manages here to ramble on a pretty good ways in remarkably few pages.
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