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Parma: Notes From a Year in Serie A
Read more: Parma: Notes From a Year in Serie ADate: 1998 Author: Greg Burke Give Burke credit for forward thinking. In one paragraph he calls Walter Veltroni (now mayor…
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By Night in Chile
Read more: By Night in ChileDate: 1998 (2003) Author: Roberto Bolaño, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews The book ends with this line: “And…
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The Diving Bell & the Butterfly
Read more: The Diving Bell & the ButterflyDate: 1997 Author: Jean-Dominque Bauby, translated by Jeremy Leggatt, Here’s a maudlin votive candle, or it seems for starters —…
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When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi
Read more: When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince LombardiDate: 1999 Author: David Maraniss In this socially-adroit biography Maraniss confronts the flawed architecture of mid-century America. Vince Lombardi, the…
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The Wasp Factory
Read more: The Wasp FactoryDate: 1984 (1992) Author: Iain Banks “For years,” says Frank Cauldhame laconically, “I believed Pathos was one of the Three…
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The Bug
Read more: The BugDate: 2003 Author: Ellen Ullman Ullman is Christmas for those seeking insight into the world of computers and programming. It’s…
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The Devil’s Larder
Read more: The Devil’s LarderDate: 2002 Author: Jim Crace Victual parables for language gourmets. Sixty-four in all, the last one reads only “Oh Honey.”…
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Twelve
Read more: TwelveDate: 2003 Author: Nick McDonnell Twelve is not Midnight but a designer drug. McDonell, 18 when he wrote the novel,…
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Shuttlecock
Read more: ShuttlecockDate: 1981 (1997) Author: Graham Swift If “Waterland” is Swift’s masterpiece, “Shuttlecock” is its harbinger. Prentis works for the “dead…
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Dreaming in Cuban
Read more: Dreaming in CubanDate: 1993 Author: Cristina Garcia “Atouch of otherness” is what ails the émigré Cubans who populate this novel. They speak…
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The Body Artist
Read more: The Body ArtistDate: 2001 Author: Don DeLillo When novelists who embellish the palpable take a break from social parody they often see…
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Be My Knife
Read more: Be My KnifeDate: 1998 (2003) Author: David Grossman, translated by from the Hebrew by Vered Almog and Maya Gurantz In this fervid…
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