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Monthly Archives: April 2012
The Last Warner Woman
The Last Warner Woman is a novel by Kei Miller, © Coffee House Press 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged apocalypse, book review, contemporary fiction, fiction, frames, gender, jamaica, knowledge, language, London, nihilism, novel, parables, readers, reading, reading process, religion, supernatural, warning, writers, writing, writing process
6 Comments
The Cat’s Table
The Cat’s Table is a novel by Michael Ondaatje, © Knopf 2011
Posted in Book Review
Tagged book review, change, child protagonist, children, coming of age, contemporary fiction, fiction, growing up, losers, novel, perspective, retrospective, ship, steamship, transition
8 Comments
Open City
Open City is a novel by Teju Cole, © Random House 2011 You hadn’t heard about Cormac’s Olivetti? Check it out.
Posted in Book Review
Tagged book review, classics, contemporary, contemporary fiction, debut, emotional weight, fiction, lens, lonely, narrator, new york city, novel, perspective, postmodernism, reading, trust, urban space
12 Comments
The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands
The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands is a collection of poetry by Nick Flynn, © Graywolf Press 2011
Posted in Book Review
Tagged abu ghraib, book review, contemporary, contemporary poetry, emotional weight, knowledge, language, nick flynn, pain, perspective, poetry, testimony, violence, witness
5 Comments
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