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by David Wroblewski
Published Oct 2009
Read ReviewsBorn mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. But his life is plunged into chaos as his uncle returns, his father suddenly dies, and he is forced to flee into the wilderness with only three yearling dogs for company.
by Joe Hill
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsA multiple-award winner for his short fiction, author Joe Hill immediately vaults into the top echelon of dark fantasists with a blood-chilling roller-coaster ride of a novel, a masterwork brimming with relentless thrills and acid terror.
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
by Karen Russell
Published Aug 2007
Read ReviewsA collection of ten short stories, beautifully written and exuberantly imagined, with an emotional precision behind their wondrous surfaces that makes them unforgettable.
by Keith Donohue
Published May 2007
Read ReviewsInspired by the W.B. Yeats poem that tempts a child from home to the waters and the wild, The Stolen Child is a modern fairy tale narrated by the child Henry Day and his double.
by Helen Oyeyemi
Published Apr 2006
Read ReviewsHelen Oyeyemi draws on Nigerian mythology to present a strikingly original variation on a classic literary theme: the existence of "doubles," both real and spiritual, who play havoc with our perceptions and our lives.
by Haruki Murakami
Published Jan 2006
Read ReviewsA tour de force of metaphysical reality, powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy who runs away from home to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy, and an aging simpleton.
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
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