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Dwight Garner, in a review published by The New York Times, praised the novel as a book of "intellect and amplitude that deepens as it moves forward". [4] Garner also praised the book as a worthwhile follow-up to Lacey's first novel, Nobody Is Ever Missing. [4] In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews said "with otherworldly precision and subtle wit ...
Fire-Captain Beatty, in my novel Fahrenheit 451, described how the books were burned first by minorities, each ripping a page or a paragraph from this book, then that, until the day came when the books were empty and the minds shut and the libraries closed forever. [...] Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole ...
The characters and their varied places in society in the novel evoked reviewer comments, for example, the novel is "populated by some of the most vivid characters ever created," "David himself, Steerforth, Peggotty, Mr Dick – and it climbs up and down and off the class ladder.", remarked by critic Maureen Corrigan and echoed by Wendy Lesser ...
Q & A is a novel written by Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup and published in 2005. The novel is also Swarup's first novel work. [1] It tells the rags to riches story of Ram Mohammad Thomas, a young waiter who becomes the biggest quiz show winner in history, only to be arrested and jailed on accusations that he cheated. His lawyer is the only thing ...
In a review for the New York Times, Terrence Rafferty wrote: "[Gotthelf] does something only the best horror writers, and the best preachers, can do: he puts the fear of God in you." [ 4 ] The novella's depictions of a town led astray in difficult times by a headstrong leader and the morality of collective guilt gave it renewed relevance in the ...
A Newsweek review wrote, "255 pages of the most engaging literary sleuthing you'll read this year," and "What makes the novel so extraordinary is the ways in which Whitehead plays with notions of race." [1] Walter Kirn, writing in Time, called it "The freshest racial allegory since Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Toni Morrison's The Bluest ...
“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.
According to Richard Powers, [4] [The] aim in The Echo Maker is to put forward, at the same time, a glimpse of the solid, continuous, stable, perfect story we try to fashion about the world and about ourselves, while at the same time to lift the rug and glimpse the amorphous, improvised, messy, crack-strewn, gaping thing underneath all that narration.