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The Sea - John Banville
Amazon.com ReviewIncandescent prose. Beautifully textured characterisation. Transparent narratives. The adjectives to describe the writing of John Banville are all affirmative, and... -
Willa Cather - Death Comes for the Archbishop
A narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. -
Zero and Other Fictions - Huang Fan
Against the backdrop of nativist rural narratives dominating Taiwan's literary scene in the 1980s, Huang Fan published thrilling urban portraits and political satires, reorienting ... -
Woods Runner - Gary Paulsen
FromSteering his narrative through an unsentimentalized and deglorified depiction of the American Revolution, Paulsen’s latest work of historical fiction provides a stark glimpse o... -
The rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
ReviewPraise for the rise of Theodore Roosevelt ?Magnificent . . . a sweeping narrative of the outward man and a shrewd examination of his character... -
The Watery Part of the World - Michael Parker
From Publishers WeeklyParker's affecting fifth novel mines two historical anecdotes from 1813 and 1970 to draw parallel narratives around island dwellers off the North Carolina coa... -
The Straw Men - Michael Marshall
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Michael Marshall's unique voice adds a chilling intensity to the serial-killer plot, combining dazzling narrative, a white-hot pace and a deeply disturbing backdr... -
The Ruined Map - Kobo Abe
Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With The Ruined Map, he crafted a mesmerizing literary crime novel that combines the narrative sus... -
The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood
From Publishers WeeklyDrawing on a range of sources, in addition to The Odyssey, Atwood scripts the narrative of Penelope, the faithful and devoted wife of Odysseus and her 12 maid... -
The Narrative of Sojourner Trut - Sojourner Truth
SUMMARY: The subject of this biography- SOJOURNER TRUTH- as she now calls herself-but whose name originally was Isabella-was born- as near as she can now calculate between the year...