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Interviews | May 16, 2013

Jill Owens: IMG Claire Messud: The Powells.com Interview

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Claire MessudClaire Messud's new novel, The Woman Upstairs, is fiercely intelligent and urgently intimate, written with precision, humor, and an incredible... Continue »
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    The Woman Upstairs

    Claire Messud 9780307596901
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The Sea: A Novel by John Banville
The Sea: A Novel

Bart, January 1, 2011

An articulate exploration of the mystery of memory, love and the folly of presumptive understanding. A beautiful book, not a word too many nor out of place.
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Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping

bart, January 6, 2010

Unique and unforgettable, I find myself returning to this wonderful novel often. Such luminous prose that I gave up on my highlighter after only a few pages.

Reward yourself by reading of this book!
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