Farley's Picks - Recent Fiction
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There are 37 books in this aisle.
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon  
Powells.com Staff Pick The story of two young comic book artists in 1940s New York City, Jewish boys, one of whom fled the German steamroller heading toward his home in Czechoslovakia in a coffin, Chabon's third and best novel is utterly original, a generous fictional addition...
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Motherless Brooklyn
by Jonathan Lethem
Powells.com Staff Pick The narrator, Lionel Essrog, known as The Human Freakshow, suffers with Tourette's syndrome and though you might not want to know him in real life, he's got to be one of the most brilliant characters ever created. His quirky rants put me off at first...
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
From Powells.com Haruki Murakami is generally considered the greatest Japanese writer of his generation, but at times he seems more in tune with the culture of the West than of his native country. Throughout his work, the food, music, movies, and literature...
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The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
Powells.com Staff Pick Ever since The Edible Woman was first published in 1969, novelist and poet Margaret Atwood has regularly reaffirmed her position at the head of the table. Atwood possesses extraordinary literary gifts. When she simultaneously taps her world-class...
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American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
Publisher Comments As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete...
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Pastoralia (00 Edition)
by George Saunders
From Powells.com In an era that boasts Jerry Springer, Tammy Faye Baker, and "Survivor Africa," it's difficult to make it as a satirist. Any effort to exaggerate the world's ridiculous contractions — the satirist's stock in trade — falls flat...
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The Intuitionist
by Colson Whitehead
From Powells.com Rarely does a first novel generate the kind of excitement The Intuitionist did when it was first published in 1998. This noirish mystery about the Byzantine underbelly of the Department of Elevator Inspectors (of all things) in a Gotham-like...
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Mariette in Ecstasy
by Ron Hansen
Powells.com Staff Pick While reading Mariette in Ecstasy, I was reminded of the scene in Robert Graves's classic historical novel, I, Claudius, where cunning Livia Augusta speaks frankly ? for once ? with her fascinated nephew about why she spent the previous 300-odd pages...
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No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy
Powells.com Staff Pick This may not be Cormac McCarthy's best book, or even one of the best books of the year (in fact, its construction is a bit incoherent), yet I remain a sucker for the peculiar blend of melancholy and savagery that permeates all of McCarthy's work...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Publisher Comments Foreign rights have been sold to the UK, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Japan, Greece, Finland, Denmark, Holland and Brazil. Film rights have been bought by Hey Day (the makers of Harry Potter) together with Brad Grey (producer of The Sopranos...
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The Hours
by Michael Cunningham
Powells.com Staff Pick After completing his first two books, Michael Cunningham's writing career was right on track. Both novels had received excellent reviews, and Cunningham had established a small, loyal following among readers of literary fiction. He then decided to...
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Soul Mountain
by Gao Xingjian
Powells.com Staff Pick Born in 1940, Gao Xingjian was still a young man when China's decade long Cultural Revolution began in 1966. This disastrous period represented China's bizarre attempt to create a utopian society by both erasing its extensive history and obliterating...
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A Gesture Life
by Chang Rae Lee
Publisher Comments "A Gesture Life" is the story of a proper man, an upstanding citizen, who has come to epitomize the decorous values of his New York suburban town. Courteous, honest, hardworking, and impenetrable, Franklin Hata, a Japanese man of Korean birth, is careful...
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Kingdom of Shadows
by Alan Furst
Powells.com Staff Pick Many Alan Furst fans ? and their numbers are growing rapidly ? are under the mistaken impression that he is English. This is due to the fact that Furst, a native New Yorker, established his initial reputation on the other side of the Atlantic. It's...
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High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby
Powells.com Staff Pick In the nineties, while Americans were looking to cloying John Gray to explain the differences between men and women, the Brits were having a much better time learning about the foibles of gender from two of their best satirists. Taken together...
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Drop City
by T.C. Boyle
Publisher Comments T.C. Boyle has proven himself to be a master storyteller who can do just about anything. But even his most ardent admirers may be caught off guard by his ninth novel, for Boyle has delivered something completely unexpected: a serious and richly rewarding...
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Trainspotting (76 Edition)
by Irvine Welsh From Powells.com In the past decade writers such as A. L. Kennedy, Iain Banks, Alan Warner, Michel Faber, and Ian Rankin have made Scotland one of the most talked about literary communities in the world. No writer, though, has been more central to this "...
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Among the Missing
by Dan Chaon
Publisher Comments In this haunting, bracing new collection, Dan Chaon shares stories of men, women, and children who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place. Chaon mines the...
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My Life as a Fake
by Peter Carey
Powells.com Staff Pick One of Jill's Top Five picks for 2004. To read more staff Top Five lists click here....
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In the City of Shy Hunters
by Tom Spanbauer From Powells.com In 1991, Tom Spanbauer X-ed his spot on the literary map with The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, a boisterous, bawdy romp through an alternative Old West peopled by uptight Mormons, big-hearted whores, and one unforgettable bisexual Indian. The book...
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