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‘The Street Sweeper’ burdened with ponderous history lectures

Contemporary Literature | January 30, 2012 Peter KeltonJanuary 30, 2012
(Current fiction and quality fiction of the past.)“The Street Sweeper” (Riverhead-Penguin) by Elliot Perlman tells rather than shows...
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Academics resurrect Cortázar’s ‘Hopscotch’ for cyber studies

Contemporary Literature | January 30, 2012 Peter KeltonJanuary 30, 2012
(Current fiction and quality fiction of the past.)By actual count there are about 50 novels that could be labeled “cyberpunk” as...
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‘The Sheltering Sky’ gave Paul Bowles a name he lived up to

Contemporary Literature | January 29, 2012 Peter KeltonJanuary 29, 2012
(Current fiction and quality fiction of the past.)"During the middle of the day it was no longer the sun alone that persecuted from above ...
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Midnight in Austenland: A Novel by Shannon Hale

January 28, 2012 Book Review | January 28, 2012 Pamela Kramer
Midnight in Austenland: the Novel by Shannon Hale is the second book about Austenland, a magical place where the company is genteel and romance is...
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Téa Obreht’s ‘The Tiger’s Wife’ written in a luxuriant style

Contemporary Literature | January 28, 2012 Peter KeltonJanuary 28, 2012
(Current fiction and quality fiction of the past.)“The Tiger’s Wife” (Random House) by Téa Obreht tells the story of Natalia, a...
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Britisher A. S. Byatt wrote intellectually sharp ‘Possession’

Contemporary Literature | January 27, 2012 Peter KeltonJanuary 27, 2012
(Current fiction and quality fiction of the past.)Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of 1991, “Possession...
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Walter Percy’s ‘The Moviegoer’ ranks among the best

Contemporary Literature | January 26, 2012 Peter KeltonJanuary 26, 2012
(Current fiction and quality fiction of the past.)“The Moviegoer” (Vintage) by Walter Percy is considered a genuine American classic...
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‘Never Let Me Go’ offers a different kind of romantic escape

January 25, 2012 #Romantic Escapes | January 25, 2012 Peter Kelton
(Current fiction and quality fiction of the past.)‘Never Let Me Go’ (Knopf) by Kazuo Ishiguro isa novel superb in its view of the...
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Penelope Lively scores nicely with ‘How It All began’

Contemporary Literature | January 24, 2012 Peter KeltonJanuary 24, 2012
(Current fiction and quality fiction of the past.)As a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature one would expect substantial writings from...
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The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey

January 20, 2012 Book Review | January 20, 2012 Pamela Kramer
The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey is Jane Eyre, updated, modernized (to the mid-twentieth century), and modified.The story is best at the...
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