Posted on 11/30/2013 8:33:01 PM PST by Dysart
The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
FICTION & POETRY
THE ACCURSED. By Joyce Carol Oates. (Ecco/HarperCollins, $27.99.) Oates’s extravagantly horrifying, funny and prolix postmodern Gothic novel purports to be the definitive account of a curse that infected bucolic Princeton, N.J., in 1905 and 1906.
ALL THAT IS. By James Salter. (Knopf, $26.95.) Salter’s first novel in more than 30 years, which follows the loves and losses of a World War II veteran, is an ambitious departure from his previous work and, at a stroke, demolishes any talk of twilight.
AMERICANAH. By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. (Knopf, $26.95.) This witheringly trenchant novel scrutinizes blackness in America, Nigeria and Britain.
BLEEDING EDGE. By Thomas Pynchon. (Penguin Press, $28.95.) Airliners crash not only into the twin towers but into a shaggy-dog tale involving a fraud investigator and a white-collar outlaw in this vital, audacious novel.
CHILDREN ARE DIAMONDS: An African Apocalypse. By Edward Hoagland. (Arcade, $23.95.) The adventure-seeking protagonist of Hoagland’s novel is swept up in the chaos of southern Sudan.
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Any testimonials this year, especially in science & history (by which I don't mean anything Doris Kearns Goodwin has her hand in)?
Just received “Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World” by Daniel Hannan and enjoyed the first chapter. I listened to Mr. Hannan’s speech on Heritage Foundation on my iPhone and really liked his themes which led me to buy his book.
Excellent! I have that one on my list. Hannan is the goods and well worth following on twitter for a conservative British perspective.
Read one (fiction), reading another one (also), will read none of the others.
Shameless self promotion - I suggest that you check out the history of GPS which I’ve co-written. It’s GPS Declassified, From Smart Bombs to Smartphones.
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History:
“Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims”
By Rush Limbaugh
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