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by Anna Solomon
Published Jun 2021
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by Janet Frame
Published Dec 2014
Read ReviewsA wonderful social satire, a send-up of the cult of the dead author, and - in the best tradition of Frame - a fascinating exploration of the complexity and the beauty of language.
by Alan Hollinghurst
Published Aug 2012
Read ReviewsA magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.
by Anne Enright
Published Apr 2012
Read ReviewsIn this extraordinary novel, Anne Enright explores the momentous drama of everyday life; the volatile connections between people; the wry, accurate take on families, marriage, and brittle middle age.
by William Boyd
Published Jan 2004
Read ReviewsA moving, ambitious and richly conceived novel that summons up the heroics and follies of twentieth-century life.
by Jonathan Franzen
Published Aug 2002
Read ReviewsThe Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon
Published Aug 2001
Read ReviewsA serious but never solemn novel about the American comic book's Golden Age, from the late 1930's to the early 1950s. 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction.
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