Hand to Mouth
 It's no wonder that Paul Auster (The Music of Chance, Leviathan, Mr. Vertigo) creates such singular characters. While his youth comprised a series of failures too unbelievable for fiction, it also equipped him with a range of experiences to draw from ... [... more]
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Song For Nero
Thomas Holt provides us, in A Song for Nero, with one of the more ingeniously unlikely what-ifs of the modern historical novel: what if the body rebel troops found and dishonoured was not that of the deposed emperor Nero, but that of his official double, ... [... more]
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A Song For Nero
Thomas Holt provides us, in A Song for Nero, with one of the more ingeniously unlikely what-ifs of the modern historical novel: what if the body rebel troops found and dishonoured was not that of the deposed emperor Nero, but that of his official double, ... [... more]
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The Mother
Skimworthy, perhaps, but Buck had the right of it. Pearl S. Buck, The Mother (Pocket, 1934) It is hard to know what to make of this early novel (her fourth) by Pearl S. Buck, who had won the Pulitzer Prize the year before for The Good Earth (her second) ... [... more]
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Modern Classics Lonely Londoners
very funny, but misogynistic and a titular letdown I just got this novel and finished it in under 6 hours. You can't put it down once you start. The style is refreshing esp. for West Indians, b/c it's entirely written in dialect--narration as well as ... [... more]
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Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border
comments can be deceptive... I'm basically writing this review because I feel that the comments posted here do not reflect how beautiful this book actually is. It was assigned reading during a Chicano Studies course I took last quarter, and quite ... [... more]
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Joe
The hottest thing to hit the south since trailer parks! I just finished reading Larry Brown's "Fay". It was so great. I wanted it to go on and on and on. "Jo" is like a part one to "Fay". I read "Jo" in two days! ( ... [... more]
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Joe
The hottest thing to hit the south since trailer parks! I just finished reading Larry Brown's "Fay". It was so great. I wanted it to go on and on and on. "Jo" is like a part one to "Fay". I read "Jo" in two days! ( ... [... more]
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The Lonely Londoners (Longman Caribbean Writer Series)
very funny, but misogynistic and a titular letdown I just got this novel and finished it in under 6 hours. You can't put it down once you start. The style is refreshing esp. for West Indians, b/c it's entirely written in dialect--narration as well as ... [... more]
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Audio-Video Underground Chamber
I expected prictures, instead the book is 99% interviews Bruce Nauman is the most amazing artist I have ever seen. I was not much into moder art, until I saw Clown Torture and From Hand to Mouth at the Tate Modern in London. Since then I am a looking for ... [... more]
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From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language
Quite interesting It may seem unusual for a psychologist to publish a book on linguistics and the origins of human language, but Michael Corballis has produced an intriguing work full of speculation and theory. The author asks an essential question--why ... [... more]
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The Lonely Londoners
very funny, but misogynistic and a titular letdown I just got this novel and finished it in under 6 hours. You can't put it down once you start. The style is refreshing esp. for West Indians, b/c it's entirely written in dialect--narration as well as ... [... more]
CDN$13.95
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