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The Alteration
Alteration
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Kingsley Amis
Amis
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In Kingsley Amis’s virtuoso foray into alternate history, it is 1976 but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. "One of the best—possibly the best—alternate-worlds novels in existence."— Philip K. Dick
Contributors: William Gibson |
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The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
Book of Ebenezer Le Page
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G.B. Edwards
Edwards
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Curmudgeonly and wise, Ebenezer le Page recounts his eighty years on the small island of Guernsey. "A true epic, as sexy as it is hilarious." — Allan Gurganus, O, The Oprah Magazine
Contributors: John Fowles |
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Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
Dancing Lessons
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Bohumil Hrabal
Hrabal
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An elderly roué, passing a group of sunbathing women, reminisces about the women he has known. Part drunken boast, part confession, part metaphysical poem on the nature of love and time, this astonishing novel (which unfolds in a single monumental sentence) shows why Milan Kundera called Hrabal “our very best writer today.”
Contributors: Adam Thirlwell , Michael Henry Heim |
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The Expendable Man
Expendable Man
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Dorothy B. Hughes
Hughes
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Young doctor Hugh Denismore would seem to have everything going for him. Why then is he the first suspect when a hitchhiking teen goes missing? Dorothy B. Hughes was one of the great novelists of the golden age of noir. Here she not only takes up the subject of American social injustice, she delivers a supremely suspenseful story.
Contributors: Walter Mosley |
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A Game of Hide and Seek
Game of Hide and Seek
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Elizabeth Taylor
Taylor
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Harriet comes of age between the wars. She’s not especially charming or attractive, but
she has one passion in her life: Vesey. Nothing, not marriage to another man, or motherhood, will
change that. “Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author
of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth.”—Sarah Waters
Contributors: Caleb Crain |
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The Green Man
Green Man
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Kingsley Amis
Amis
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"A thoroughly contemporary ghost story . . . in the uncomplicated, old-fashioned sense. As one might expect from the author of Lucky Jim, The Green Man is also an extremely funny book, filled with slapstick, parody and satire. Indeed, the success of this short novel depends very much on the balance that Amis maintains between fear and laughter.''—The New York Times
Contributors: Michael Dirda |
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Hav
Hav
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Jan Morris
Morris
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In Hav, famed travel-writer Jan Morris takes us on a guided tour through one of the most fascinating places on earth, the fabled city-state of Hav. But don’t be fooled: Hav is like no place on earth. In fact, it is wholly the product of Jan Morris’s prodigious imagination. “Last Letters from Hav,” the first part of this novel, was shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1985. Here Morris adds a second part, bringing the story up to date for the post–9/11 world.
Contributors: Ursula K. Le Guin |
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The Judges of the Secret Court
Judges of the Secret Court
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David Stacton
Stacton
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Stacton’s historical recreation of John Wilkes Booth’s plot to assassinate Lincoln, its execution, and its aftermath (including the trials of the conspirators, Mary Surratt among them) is among the finest books ever written about the Civil War. “David Stacton is an original, finely pitched voice in American fiction.” —Larry McMurtry
Contributors: John Crowley |
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
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Brian Moore
Moore
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A deeply sympathetic portrait of a Belfast woman, come down in the world and denied the comforts once granted to her sort (from the Catholic Church, from her genteel friends), who has a shameful secret. This is the book that launched Brian Moore’s career.
Contributors: Mary Gordon |
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Lucky Jim
Lucky Jim
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Kingsley Amis
Amis
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This campus comedy launched Kingsley Amis's career and made him the reluctant voice of a generation. Neither its vitriol nor its wit has dulled with the years. "Remarkable for its relentless skewering of artifice and pretension, Lucky Jim also contains some of the finest comic set pieces in the language." —Olivia Laing, The Observer
Contributors: Keith Gessen |
