BROWSE BOOK REVIEWS

The Pen/O. Henry Prize Authors 2011 (page 2)

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FICTION

Released: May 25, 2006

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE WORLD

by Judy Doenges

"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. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: May 4, 2004

THE NEWS FROM PARAGUAY

by Lily Tuck

"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. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: Jan. 28, 2002

RAPTURE

by Susan Minot

"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. Read full book review >