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Goldberg Variations: A Novel

October 6, 2012

goldberg

Gloria Garrison née Goldberg is a successful businesswoman with an eleven million dollar fashion/beauty empire. She is also self-absorbed, superficial and of an emotional temperature cold enough to ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, family, Scribner

Those We Love Most

September 12, 2012

those we love

Those We Love Most begins with one of life’s greatest tragedies- the loss of a young child. James is riding his bike to school as his mother follows with his baby sister in a stroller. He rides out ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, debut, family, Hyperion

In Between Days

September 5, 2012

in between days

He looks out the window to his left and notices a small row of brown stucco houses, all old and somewhat disheveled, and realizes then, with something like panic, with something like fear, that he ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, family, Knopf

The Darlings

July 14, 2012

darlings

  Typically by the time Sol was pitching an exit strategy, the client was already so far in the woods that they had lost sight of any ambient light long ago. Sol’s job was to lead them out of ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, debut, family, literary, Manhattan, Pamela Dorman Books

Ed King

July 12, 2012

ed

  My conscience says that I should start with a Spoiler Alert but with a condition: this book’s plot will only be news to you if you’ve never read Sophocles or heard of an oedipal complex or ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary fiction, family, Knopf, literary

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