$8.00
ISBN: 9780525564157
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Published: Vintage - November 6th, 2018
Wells gives full expression to the unaccountability, and potential for evil, to those who make themselves invisible. But being invisible has unforeseen obstacles which cause frustration, then anger, then violence, and then....? ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare
$26.00
ISBN: 9780525534877
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Published: Riverhead Books - February 4th, 2020
Lidia Yuknavitch’s short-story collection, Verge, opens in the water, with her narrator swimming, where she as a writer and in her writing has always worked strongest. The book closes where she writes happiest and most secure, with “Two Girls” skipping, hand-in-hand. Between this tragicomic frame, her stories character contemporary stages, barb-witted, often violent studies allusive of Shakespeare and Bosch and incessant impending decadence, and compelled by Yuknavitch’s signature bold, searing language, each piece shaping an astounding, often agonizing world rife with harrowing beauty. ~ Reviewed by Ray Marsocci
$14.00
ISBN: 9780143039341
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Published: Penguin Classics - November 29th, 2005
Loosely inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, Maugham depicts an all-consuming, nearly demonic quest for artistic freedom. This century-old novel's depictions of a brutal quest for personal fulfillment are bracing relevant today. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare
$6.99
ISBN: 9781977931849
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Published: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform - October 18th, 2017
Masterfully rendered life of a Victorian woman from her birth to the day of her death. Harriett Frean was brought up to be moral, self-effacing, and to behave "beautifully." The results are harrowing and heart-rendering in ways that Harriett never anticipated. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare
$27.00
ISBN: 9780525510543
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Published: Random House - August 6th, 2019
Acute personal and sociological observations ranging from Reality TV to scammers large and small to the often pressurized nature of weddings. Tolentino dares you look into the mirror, and prepare to be unsettled, if not shocked, by the reflection. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare
$25.95
ISBN: 9780525658412
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Published: Knopf - April 7th, 2020
Micah Mortimer leads a perfectly self-contained life. He has a flawless driving record, a comfortable relationship with a woman friend, operates his own small business, and maintains a cordially distant rapport with the tenants in his Baltimore apartment building. The placid water that Micah has sailed upon for so long starts to ripple when a young man shows up claiming to be his son, the offspring from a college romance that Micah recalls as being disappointingly chaste. Once again, Tyler demonstrates her mastery at capturing in prose the hopes, the flaws, and the spirit of ordinary people and presenting them in such a way that her characters' small triumphs become a cause for celebration for her readers. No other contemporary American author does it quite so effortlessly. ~ Reviewed by Alden Graves
