Ben Marcus's books The Age of Wire and String and Notable American Women were considered "experimental" fiction because of his unconventional use of...
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Elizabeth Brown, August 15, 2006 (view all comments by Elizabeth Brown)
One of those that I found hard to put down. The story was engrossing and fast moving. My knowledge of the area it was written in made it fun and made me hypercritical (Really? A BRICK house in the heart of timber country?). It might be a 5 but I hate to say "the best" about anything.
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