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Man in the Dark
A Novel
Paul Auster
Picador
"This is perhaps Auster’s best book . . .
Man In The Dark
is so unlike anything Auster has ever written that it doesn’t make sense to compare it with his earlier work . . . Here we have multiple worlds and three generations . . . Auster’s book leaves one with a depth of feeling much larger than might be expected from such a small and concise work of art."—
Stephen Elliott,
San Francisco Chronicle
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Invisible
Paul Auster
Henry Holt and Co.
"His latest novel,
Invisible
, finds [Auster] returning to the same thematic territory he has long occupied—the four-way intersection of memory, language, fate and self-discovery—with that playfulness very much intact. His subject here is the memoirist's subjective truth, and his object is to get us thinking about the ways in which it is constructed, edited and processed into what we think of as objective reality . . . 'I sometimes confuse my thoughts about the world with the world itself,' says one character at the end of
Invisible
. 'I'm sorry if I offended you.' Some undoubtedly will be offended . . . One hopes that, in this case, readers will stay for the duration. The pleasures found inside are well worth the labor required to uncover them."—
Jeff Turrentine,
The Washington Post
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Fieldwork
A Novel
Mischa Berlinski
Picador
“With its offbeat style, Berlinski's consummate fieldwork—fictional though it may be—produces an intricate whodunit, both disturbing and entertaining. Even as he confesses to feeling ‘like the baton in a relay race of faulty memories and distant recollections,’ Berlinski meticulously unearths Martiya's ‘good story,’ taking readers on an intoxicating journey filled with missing souls and vengeful spirits.”—
Terry Hong,
The Washington Post
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Conception
A Novel
Kalisha Buckhanon
St. Martin's Griffin
"
Conception
is Buckhanon's second novel, a work of urban fiction that mixes the usual streetwise tales of woe with casual references to Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison and the occasional bit of French . . . The heroine is 15-year-old Shivana, who lives in a Chicago slum and believes that most black women stumble blindly into the same painful trap: meet some man, believe his sweet talk, bear his offspring, then watch him leave . . . Shivana's own mother has followed this scenario, ending up bitter and alone . . . Shivana, seeking love in all the wrong places, finds herself pregnant by the first older man who smiles her way. The question of the novel thus becomes whether she will decide to terminate the pregnancy or to keep the unborn child . . . [
Conception
is] the work of a gifted young novelist."—
Kim McLarin,
The Washington Post
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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
A Novel
Peter Cameron
Picador
"His best work—it's terrific, piercing, and funny. The novel demonstrates every kind of strength."—
David Lipsky,
The New York Times Book Review
American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
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Middlesex
A Novel
Jeffrey Eugenides
Picador
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
"A towering achievement . . . A story that manages to be both illuminating and transcendent . . . [Eugenides] has emerged as the great American writer many of us suspected him of being."—
Jeff Turrentine,
Los Angeles Times Book Review
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I Am Not Sidney Poitier
A Novel
Percival Everett
Graywolf Press Paper
"Constantly shifting modes, from comic realism to tall tale, from recounted dreams to refashioned movie plots, Everett's hall of mirrors narrative presents African American identity itself as rooted in contradiction."—
Gregory Leon Miller,
San Francisco Chronicle
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The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
"To say that
The Forever War
is the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is, for all its techno-extrapolative brilliance, as fine and woundingly genuine a war story as any I've read."—
William Gibson, author of
Neuromancer, Spook Country
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The Sorrows of an American
A Novel
Siri Hustvedt
Picador
"Hustvedt's descriptions of the immigrant experience and the Minnesota landscape have a spare Scandinavian elegance, while her account of the life of a Brooklyn psychoanalyst feels quietly authentic. She takes unapologetic delight in intellectual characters who understand their lives through far-ranging reading and lively conversation . . . she proves herself a writer deftly able to weave intricate ideas into an intriguing plot."—
Sylvia Brownrigg,
The New York Times
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Nobody Move
A Novel
Denis Johnson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"Johnson is one of the last of the hard-core American realist writers, working—in his own way—along a line that might be charted from Melville and Stephen Crane, with a detour through Flannery O’Connor and Don DeLillo. He routinely explores the nature of crime—all his novels have it in one form or another—in relation to the nature of grace (yes, grace) and the wider historical and cosmic order . . . Johnson is a great writer, and even a casual entertainment, written well, has meaning. If
Tree of Smoke
—intricately plotted, embracing the entire Vietnam era and bringing it up alongside the war in Iraq—was a huge piece of work, a
Guernica
of sorts, then
Nobody Move
is a Warhol soup can, a flinty, bright piece of pop art meant to be instantly understood and enjoyed."—
David Means,
The New York Times Book Review
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Home Land
A Novel
Sam Lipsyte
Picador
Winner of the First Annual
Believer
Book Award
"[
Home Land
is] funny and sad and cruel and awful. It makes David Sedaris seem a little lightweight. It makes David Foster Wallace seem a little out of touch. It makes Rick Moody seem, well, unnecessarily Moody. It makes one laugh out loud while pondering all the ways in which all lives, invariably, go wrong . . . Lipsyte writes the way you wish you could talk. He's smart without pretense. He's funny when the situation most calls for tears . . .
Home Land
is the kind of book that gets passed around, underlined, dog-eared. It's the kind of book you give to the guy who says he doesn't like books."—
Esquire
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Cion
A Novel
Zakes Mda
Picador
"Takes the traditional pattern of a picaresque novel—an episodic recounting of roguish schemes gone awry—and decorates it with a richly textured overlay of embroidery, applique, collage and found art . . . Mda writes about hardscrabble lives without dwelling on the hardscrabble . . . Mda's elegant patchwork of clever storytelling, wry characterization and good-natured humor is more than enough."—
John R. Alden,
The Plain Dealer
(Cleveland)
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The Last of Her Kind
A Novel
Sigrid Nunez
Picador
"A compelling account of the 1960s and their aftermath, a carefully written and discerning narrative with closely drawn portraits of prototypical yet unique women trying to construct a friendship across and unbridgeable class divide . . .
The Last of Her Kind
appears to share common ground with novels like
The Group
by Mary McCarthy and ona Jaffe's
Class Reunion
. And the historical events, both real and invented, that provide its backdrop give Nunez's story tragic dimensions . . . Nunez's keen powers of observation make her a natural chronicler. It's not hard to suspect she has plenty of good stories about her own life to tell."—
Megan Marshall,
The New York Times Book Review
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Wise Blood
A Novel
Flannery O'Connor
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"No other major American writer of our century has constructed a fictional world so energetically and forthrightly charged by religious investigation."—
Brad Leithauser,
The New Yorker
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Little Children
A Novel
Tom Perrotta
St. Martin's Griffin
A
New York Times
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"[An] extraordinary novel about adultery and child-raising in a generic American suburb . . . At once suspenseful, ruefully funny, and ultimately generous . . . [
Little Children
] represents a sterling comic contribution to the growing literature of the Bad Mommy and the Bad Daddy . . . What is Tom Perrotta but an American Checkhov whose characters even at their most ridiculous seem blessed and ennobled by a luminous human aura?"—
Will Blythe,
The New York Times Book Review
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The Abstinence Teacher
Tom Perrotta
St. Martin's Griffin
"As formulaic as this plot might sound, Mr. Perrotta uses it not to construct a conventional screwball romance but to create a sad-funny-touching story that looks at the frustrations and perils of life in suburbia through darkly tinted, not rose-colored glasses."—
Michiko Kakutani,
The New York Times
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The Echo Maker
A Novel
Richard Powers
Picador
Winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize Finalist
"A wise and elegant post-9/11 novel . . . As the features of life after 9/11 come into focus—the engagement in Afghanistan, 'that bleak, first anniversary' of the attacks, the march to war in Iraq—Powers accomplishes something magnificent, no facile conflation of personal catastrophe with national calamity, but a lovely essay on perseverance in all its forms."—
Colson Whitehead,
The New York Times Book Review
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Generosity
An Enhancement
Richard Powers
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"[Powers'] cerebral new novel offers a chilling examination of the life we're reengineering with our chromosomes and brain chemistry . . . Powers sticks so closely to the state of current medical science and popular culture that this isn't so much a warning as a diagnosis. And as with any frightening diagnosis, you'll be torn between denial and a desperate urge to talk about it . . . With
Generosity
, Powers has performed a dazzling cross-disciplinary feat, linking the slippery nature of 'creative nonfiction' to the moral conundrums of genetic engineering. Although you might expect a novel so weighted with medical and philosophical arguments to flatten its characters into brittle stereotypes, ultimately that's the most impressive aspect of this meditation on happiness and humanness. As
Generosity
drives toward its surprising conclusion, these characters grow more complex and poignant, increasingly baffled by the challenge and the opportunity of remaking ourselves to our heart's content."—
Ron Charles,
The Washington Post Book World
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Lush Life
A Novel
Richard Price
Picador
“[Price’s] new novel,
Lush Life
, which is filled with page after page of vital speech, shows him inventing a life for dialogue rather than just taking it from life; and this spoken magic is often indistinguishable from Price’s apparently more formal, descriptive prose. Of course, the author of such novels as
Clockers
and
Samaritan
(as well as episodes for
The Wire
, and several movies) has done his urban homework.”—
James Wood,
The New Yorker
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The World Made Straight
A Novel
Ron Rash
Picador
"Poet's novels tend to be finely wrought, pretty failures—or worse. Ron Rash, a justly admired poet, is an exhilarating exception, and his third book-length work of fiction,
The World Made Straight
, marks him as a major Southern writer . . . Rash is too fine and knowing a writer to allow even a hint of folkloric sentimentality to intrude. His fiction inhabits a territory of great beauty and few material consolations . . .
The World Made Straight
is his most ambitious novel . . . Rash's skill as a storyteller, allows this novel to succeed as an intellectually satisfying work of suspense . . .
The World Made Straight
reminds us of the sort of compelling literature a brave artist can fashion from the shards of experience. It is less the literature of post-apocalyptic landscape than it is one in which life, searching for reconciliation, continuously recapitulates the apocalypse in ways both social and personal."—
Tim Rutten,
Los Angeles Times
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Gilead
A Novel
Marilynne Robinson
Picador
Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the...
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Home
A Novel
Marilynne Robinson
Picador
"It is a book unsparing in its acknowledgement of sin and unstinting in its belief in the possibility of grave. It is at once hard and forgiving, bitter and joyful, fanatical and serene. It is a wild, eccentric radical work of literature that grows out of the broadest, most fertile, most familiar native literary tradition. What a strange old book it is.”—
The New York Times Book Review
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The Traveler
Daren Simkin; Drawings by Daniel Simkin and Daren Simkin
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“Fresh out of Dartmouth, Daren Simkin went to Hollywood, only to score a job interview to become Gore Vidal’s personal assistant. Next thing he knew, he found himself 'discussing the great matters of history, politics, and literature with the fellow himself.’ Having passed muster, Daren found he excelled at such arduous tasks as fetching tumblers of fine whiskey and listening to anecdotes about Gore’s golden youth. Inevitably, the literary atmosphere rubbed off, and Daren, now 26, wrote his own book. Illustrated by him and his brother Daniel, a 29-year-old rocket scientist, it is a charming fable called
The Traveler
.”—
Vanity Fair
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Soul City
A Novel
Touré
Picador
"Touré fulfills his promise in [this] inventive debut novel."—
Vanity Fair
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