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| "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” -- Mark Twain | ||
| January 30, 2007 | ||
Set among the Gypsies in Slovakia after World War II, McCann's new novel follows Zoli Novotna, a young woman raised in the traveling Gypsy tradition and a poet by accident as much as desire. While Zoli’s fame and poetic skills deepen, the ruling Communists begin to use her for their own favor. Cast out from her family, Zoli abandons her past to journey to the West, in a novel that spans the 20th century and travels the breadth of Europe ... (read review or excerpt) |
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| January 28, 2007 | ||
Author of strong historical novels containing well developed themes, Barry Unsworth focuses here on life in 1149 in Palermo, Sicily. Power struggles between east and west have left King Roger of Sicily hard pressed to maintain his throne. The Bishop of Rome and the Pope do not recognize his rule, and both Conrad Hohenstaufen (ruler of the west) and Manuel Comnenus (ruler of the east) are threatening to invade Sicily to secure their own power... (read review) |
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| January 27, 2007 | ||
India, 1920: exotic, glamorous, and violent, as the country begins to resist England's colonial grip. In the midst of this turmoil, Isabel, a young, abused British military wife, begins a passionate liaison with Sam, an Indian doctor and Oxford graduate who insists, against all odds, on the right to be both black and British. Based loosely on the author's grandmother's life. (read review) |
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| January 25, 2007 | ||
"Canadian writer Davidson kicks the literary door down with this debut short story collection, which features tough-guy topics as boxing, dog fighting, mangled bodies, sexual addiction, and repo men. The results are..."(read review) |
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| January 24, 2007 | ||
"To characterize Sean Wilsey’s memoir Oh The Glory Of It All as just a scathing portrait of a wealth-obsessed home-wrecking stepmother would be selling the author short. But hating Dede Wilsey, a San Francisco socialite and philanthropist, is the most enjoyable part of a memoir that is at once an effective coming-of-age tale, a touching love letter to aging parents, and a comic romp through 1970s San Francisco..."(read review) |
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| January 23, 2007 | ||
This book made one of the most impressive fictional debuts in recent years, and leapt onto bestseller lists after early rave reviews. It is the allusive tale of Blue Van Meer, a precocious 16-year-old (hmmm...we have a theme this week...) who seems to have inhaled the entire Western literary canon at some point in her young life. Part coming-of-age, part murder mystery, part something else entirely. (read review) |
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| January 22, 2007 | ||
"I was raised in a brick dormitory at Dewing College, formerly the Mary-Ruth Dewing Academy, a finishing school best known for turning out attractive secretaries who married up." The narrator of Elinor Lipman’s lively, witty novel My Latest Grievance is precocious 16-year-old Frederica, the only child of Professors Aviva and David Hatch. The Hatchs teach at small private women’s university...(read review) |
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