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Emma Davis of the Fantasy Book Review, gave the book a rating of 8/10, praising the overall plot and mystery while criticizing aspects of the language and pacing. [ 7 ] The book won the 2019 Ditmar Award for Best Novel, [ 8 ] the 2019 Norma K. Hemming Award , [ 9 ] and was tied for the 2018 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel with Maria Lewis ...
City of Thieves is a 2008 historical fiction novel by David Benioff. It is, in part, a coming of age story set in the World War II siege of Leningrad . It follows the adventures of two youths as they desperately search for a dozen eggs at the behest of a Soviet NKVD officer, a task that takes them far behind enemy lines.
The book received mostly positive reviews from critics for examining Tehran's underworld, as well as its vivid, novel-like descriptions of daily life in Tehran. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Some reviewers criticized the book for blurring the line between fact and fiction, especially with regards to combining anecdotes to create pastiche characters.
The New York Review was founded by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein, together with publisher A. Whitney Ellsworth [5] and writer Elizabeth Hardwick.They were backed and encouraged by Epstein's husband, Jason Epstein, a vice president at Random House and editor of Vintage Books, and Hardwick's husband, poet Robert Lowell.
City of Night is a novel written by John Rechy. It was originally published in 1963 in New York by Grove Press. Earlier excerpts had appeared in Evergreen Review, Big Table, Nugget, and The London Magazine. City of Night is notable for its exposé approach to and stark depiction of hustling, as well as its stream of consciousness narrative style.
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The City & the City takes place in the fictional Eastern European twin city-states of Besźel and Ul Qoma.. A precise location is not confirmed, but they are close to the sea as Besźel is noted as having developed on a "curl of coastline" from "a port hiding a few kilometres up the river to shelter from the pirates of the shore."
Bad City is a behind-the-scenes look at Pringle's investigation into Carmen Puliafito and the consequent exposure of corruption by the University of Southern California (USC), the Pasadena Police Department, and the Los Angeles Times. The book describes his year-long struggle to publish the story of Puliafito's drug-fueled sexual activities.