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- Wasted Land
Nick Reding’s unnerving portrait of Oelwein, Iowa, depicts a catastrophe of Chernobylish dimensions, precipitated by the loss of jobs and the rise of methamphetamines. more
Sat Jul 04 10:14am ICT
- Past-Prime Crisis
In this novel, a septuagenarian East Village couple wrestle with real estate, terrorism, real estate, an ailing dog and real estate. more
Sat Jul 04 03:43am ICT
- Princes and Imams
A Times reporter’s funny, perceptive take on the Middle East and why reform there is so difficult. more
Sat Jul 04 03:42am ICT
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Source: NYT > Sunday Book Review
- Books: "Admission"
Portia Nathan is a thirty-eight-year-old admissions officer at Princeton University, a place so discriminating that it can afford to turn down applicants who are “excellent in all of the ordinary ways” in favor of the utterly extraordinary--“Olympic athletes, authors of legitimately published books… more
Mon Jun 01 11:00am ICT
- Books: "Dark Places"
Libby Day, the protagonist of Flynn’s disturbing second novel, was, as a seven-year-old, the only survivor of her family’s brutal murder by her older brother, an event dubbed by the media the “Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” Twenty-five years later, she has become a hardened, selfish young . … more
Mon Jun 01 11:00am ICT
- Books: "Nobody Move"
So noir it’s almost pitch-black, this follow-up to Johnson’s National Book Award-winning “Tree of Smoke” concerns a lovable loser named Luntz--barbershop-chorus member, Hawaiian-shirt wearer, and inveterate gambler--who is in debt to an underworld bad guy. “My idea of a health trip is switching . .… more
Mon Jun 01 11:00am ICT
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Source: The Book Bench