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Beautiful Animals: A Novel

July 19, 2017

beautiful

  But things settled down and flowed on, because it was the law of summers among the rich that the season of leisure should flow like a large and charming river. The imperative was to have a ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, Greece, Hogarth, literary, suspense

Hunters in the Dark

January 13, 2016

hunters in the dark

  Lawrence Osborne was a travel journalist and currently lives in Bangkok, but his latest novel Hunters in the Dark is not one that will inspire readers to head to Southeast Asia. Instead, it ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary fiction, cultural, Hogarth, literary, Southeast Asia

The Ballad of a Small Player

March 31, 2014

ballad of a small player

Lawrence Osborne is a travel journalist in addition to writing fiction, which may be why I read his novels so slowly. His words describe far-off places in a way that makes them appear before my eyes. ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary fiction, cultural, gambling, Knopf, Southeast Asia

The Forgiven

September 24, 2012

forgiven

The suburbs of Tangiers were ruined, but the gardens were still there. And so were the crippled lemon trees and olives, the dogged disillusion and empty factories, the smell of seething young men. A ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Africa, book clubs, cultural, Hogarth, literary

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