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| | | | | Fiction - hardcover;Farrar Straus and Giroux; 134 pages; 2018. For a slight book, Gerald Murnane's Border Districts: A Fiction packs a very large punch. Well, not so much a punch, but a tickling of the grey matter, for this is a novel - supposedly Murnane's last (he's 79) - that makes you see the world... | |
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| | | | | Fiction - paperback; Flamingo; 176 pages; 2003. First published in 1970, Paula Fox'sDesperate Characters has recently been "rediscovered" and much acclaimed by the literary elite (in the introduction to this edition, Jonathan Franzen says that when he first read the book in 1991 he "fell in love with it. It seemed to me obviously superior... | |
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| | | | | Fiction - paperback; Picador; 436 pages; 2021. Colm Tóibín is one of my favourite writers, but The Magician didn't quite work for me. It's an account of the life and times of Nobel Prize-winning German author Thomas Mann (1875-1955), whose work - Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain et al - I've never read,... | |
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| | | What are you like when it comes to hype surrounding new books? Do you give into it for fear of missing out on a title "everyone" seems to be... | ||
