Tag: book review
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October 10, 2007 07:20 PM EDT --
The modern novel has been killed, according to critic Dale Peck, in his essay collection aptly entitled Hatchet jobs. The culprits: James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo, along with their followers. . . .
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September 24, 2007 03:22 PM EDT --
In The Hurtling, John Witte explores the contemporary world, in a voice both contemplative and urgent. Using an unusual form of three line stanzas that generally run short-medium-long, Witte manages to . . .
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February 28, 2009 04:40 PM EST --
For the Love of Books, By Ronald B. Schwartz (Grosset/Putnam, 1999)
If you’ve ever wondered which books inspired your favorite authors, you might find the answer here. Ronald B. Schwartz persuaded . . .
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October 14, 2007 05:34 PM EDT --
First disclosure: I’m a huge Robert Olen Butler fan. I’ve read most of his books and I think he’s a genius. His ability to describe a scene or to flesh out a character with just a few . . .
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October 23, 2007 07:25 PM EDT --
Behold Winkie: the teddy bear adored and cast aside by a half-dozen children in succession, who magically comes to life and escapes into the wilderness, miraculously gives birth to a baby Winkie, and . . .
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September 30, 2007 02:20 PM EDT --
In her most recent book, Averno, Louise Glück revisits the myth of Persephone, exploring the changing of seasons, the loss of innocence and the coming of death, mixing the present and the ancient . . .
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October 02, 2007 02:18 PM EDT --
The Visitor is the story of Anastasia King, a 22 year old girl. Six years ago, her mother abruptly left her father, for reasons unexplained, and Anastasia chose to live with her in Paris, rather than with . . .
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October 22, 2007 10:35 PM EDT --
Andrei Petrescu is a young Romanian boy, living a poor but happy life with his parents in the mid-1930s. With the second World War looming, Andrei’s family is in danger, because his mother is . . .
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