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Among them: "This is the book club that gets you ready for other book clubs." "A book club without the guilt." But the 48-year-old bristles at the well-worn idea that this is "a book club for ...
McTeague is a dentist of limited intellect from a poor miner's family who has opened a dentist shop on Polk Street in San Francisco (his first name is never revealed; other characters in the novel call him simply "Mac."). His best friend, Marcus Schouler, brings his cousin, Trina Sieppe, whom he's courting, to McTeague's parlor for dental work.
Nicholas Dames, in a favorable review for the Spring 2023 edition of n+1, called the novel "one of our young century’s landmarks of fiction". [9] Solenoid was explicitly mentioned when Cărtărescu won the 2022 FIL Award. [10] The novel won the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction. [11]
In Books in the Media, a site that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (4.25 out of 5) from the site which was based on sixteen critic reviews. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] In a review of the book for the Financial Times , Jonathan Derbyshire compared the novel to Renata Adler's 1976 book Speedboat .
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“The Idea of You,” in its original form as a book, is not a conventional romance. Yes, Soléne and Hayes fall in love — but they don’t stay together. Author Lee wanted it that way.
The story follows English professor Adam Snell as he realizes that someone is trying to kill both him and his book, Sovrana Sostrata, a book about truth.As a metafiction work the novel parodies literary forms—each chapter is told in a different style ranging from traditional linear drama, to newspaper reports, to a playwright's script, to a carefully annotated scholarly work from the 19th ...
The novel portrays battle realistically, including several particularly gruesome acts depicted as natural responses to the soldiers' environment, such as the disinterring of a Japanese corpse for fun, the summary execution of Japanese prisoners, and the extraction of their corpses' gold teeth. The novel explores the idea that modern war is an ...