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| | | | | Fiction - paperback; Flamingo; 240 pages; 2003. This is one of those rare books that is almost impossible to review without quoting the whole novel from cover to cover. Pretty much every clipped and stripped back sentence in Paula Fox'sThe Widow's Children resonates with meaning and provides startling insights into the ways in which family... | |
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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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| | | | | Athena is the final volume in John Banville's Frames trilogy, which comprises The Book of Evidenceand Ghosts. It follows the life and times of murderer Freddie Montgomery, who has now become an art expert charged with authenticating a series of Old Masters that are likely to be fake. | |
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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... | ||
