Tag: fiction satire
Authorlink Chat: Huang’s Novel A Deeply Personal Story
Natural Beauty, Ling Ling Huang, Dutton – Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost.
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Interview: Grieving Designer Finds New Life in Unlikely Relationship
The Very Nice Box, Laura Blackett & Eve Gleichman, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Ava was already devoted to her work designing boxes for a home goods company – but she had Andie. When Ava’s parents and Andie died in a car wreck that she barely survived, she closed down her world even more.
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Book Review: Updike Novels 1968-1975 edited by Christopher Carduff
Updike Novels 1968-1975, Christopher Carduff Editor, Library of America – John Updike won two Pulitzer Prizes for his “Rabbit” tetralogy, a series about the disturbing life of an ordinary man, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the protagonist whose risky doings are a mirror response to events such as the Cold War, Vietnam, sex, drugs and civil rights protests.
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Jean Stafford Complete Novels edited by Kathryn Davids
Jean Stafford Complete Novels, edited by Kathryn Davids, Library of America – Pulitzer-Prize-winner Jean Stafford gets renewed attention from The Library of America with three of her most important works in one edition. Boston Adventure is a dense work written in 1944 that garnered her national acclaim …
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Cantankerous Characters Redefine Family, Challenge the System
Stay and Fight, Madeline ffitch, Farrar, Straus and Giroux – Helen comes to homestead in Appalachian Ohio with her boyfriend, Shane, who deserts her before they face the first winter.
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The Plotters by Un-Su Kim
The Plotters, Un-Su Kim, DoubleDay – Reseng is an assassin, a thirty-something veteran of the Library, a clearing house for assassinations across South Korea. The Library is owned by the curmudgeonly Old Raccoon, a recluse who commissions work without ever seeming to leave the place.
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