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The novel draws from Nabokov's experience at American academic institutions, primarily Cornell, and it has been claimed that it is "teeming" with people and physical details from that university. [ 2 ] [ 10 ] The main character is based, in part, on Cornell Professor Marc Szeftel , who may have "somewhat resented the resemblance". [ 11 ]
[5] David J. Montgomery of The Philadelphia Inquirer called Triptych Slaughter's best work, "a novel of power and substance that is shocking and painful at times, but also gripping and resonant." [6] Publishers Weekly had a more critical review: "...the shock value garnered by the plot twist isn't matched by the predictable denouement." [7]
Eileen is a 2015 novel by Ottessa Moshfegh, published by Penguin Press. [1] [2] It is Moshfegh's first novel. [3] It won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for debut fiction and was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award. [4] [5] [6] The novel was adapted into a 2023 film. [7]
Some Came Running is a novel by James Jones, published in 1958.It was Jones's second published novel, following his award-winning debut From Here to Eternity.It is the story of a war veteran with literary aspirations who returns in 1948 to his hometown of Parkman, Illinois, [2] after a failed writing career.
Shadowland is a horror/fantasy novel by American writer Peter Straub, first published in 1980 by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. It is a horror novel that has strong elements of fantasy and magic. The book chronicles the tale of two teenage boys and their adventure in the mysterious and dangerous Shadowland where reality and illusions are intertwined.
Lullaby uses a framing device, alternating between the normal, linear narrative and the temporal end after every few chapters.Palahniuk often uses this format alongside a major plot twist near the end of the book which relates in some way to this temporal end (what Palahniuk refers to as "the hidden gun").
The novel won the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction. [11] The novel won the 2024 International Dublin Literary Award [ 12 ] with judge Anton Hur commenting "By turns wildly inventive, philosophical, and lyrical, with passages of great beauty, Solenoid is the work of a major European writer who is still relatively little known to ...
Enigma is a 1995 novel by Robert Harris about Tom Jericho, a young mathematician trying to break the Germans' "Enigma" ciphers during World War II. [1] Jericho is stationed in Bletchley Park, the British cryptology central office, and is worked to the point of physical and mental exhaustion. The book was adapted to film in 2001.