FICTION
Novels about mothers and the inevitable conflicts and disappointments with their offspring are often tiresomely sentimental. That’s not so with Valerie Martin’s latest novel, “Trespass,” in which the story of three women protagonists is complicated by an edgy geopolitical twist.
The story begins quietly, suggesting a genteel, even bucolic domestic tale of a mother, Chloe [...]
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Mar
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Feb
FICTION
Suspense novels are often disappointingly thin reworkings of old formulas tweaked to reflect current politics and gadgetry. So it is always a special treat to find an exception such as %26quot;The Betrayal Game,%26quot; the latest novel from Richmond resident and best-selling author David L. Robbins.
In a page turner that subtly explores how history is [...]
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Jan
Three decades ago, Lynne Tillman lived in a one-room flat at the tip of Manhattan that cost less per month than a lunch at many restaurants. The city was bankrupt. The World Trade Center had recently arisen, and South Street Seaport still employed fishmongers.
“They’d be coming in at the start of their day as [...]
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Dec
The Drowsy Chaperone LondonElaine Paige returns to the West End in what was the first successful Canadian musical on Broadway since the mid-60s. With music by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison and a book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar, it won five Tony awards last year. It’s a pastiche of the American musical of [...]
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Dec
Fiction
“The Mission Song” by John le Carr%26#233; (Back Bay, $14.99). In le Carr%26#233;’s latest, a half-Congolese, half-Irish language interpreter overhears something he was never meant to hear at a meeting between Western financiers and African warlords %26#8212; with tangled consequences. Adam Woog called this “a bittersweet, beautifully written, absorbing story of a bright but naive [...]
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Dec
The Crocodile Cafe, an iconic Seattle rock club where many local up-and-comers played before launching into the national spotlight, has closed its doors, the club’s booking agent Eli Anderson said today.
The Belltown venue, at Second Avenue and Blanchard Street, shut down abruptly after more than 15 years.
Anderson said he received a voice mail from owner [...]
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Dec
Richard K. Morgan’s latest novel postulates the creation of genetic supersoldiers 100 years from now, then pans through the resulting global intricacies with a sure eye for the story at their heart. “Thirteen” (Del Rey, 544 pp., $24.95) is almost unbearably good. The scenes of violence his readers expect from Morgan are as skillfully constructed [...]
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Dec
Some lives follow a predetermined trajectory that arcs towards
Posted by admin Published in Classic Novel misery. Or, perhaps, it is only superior fiction such as Amy
Bloom’s that convinces us it may be so and leads us to wonder
whether the damage is reversible.
Lillian Leyb, seemingly the only person to avoid a murderous
rampage on her family, flees a Russian massacre for New York where
she finds, if not happiness, then comfort - [...]
17
Dec
LAST January Candace Bushnell was feeling ebullient. The author
of Sex And The City had just heard her latest novel,
Lipstick Jungle, would be made into a television pilot. If
all went well a series would be headed to US network NBC, with her
as an executive producer.
Bushnell was clinking champagne glasses with her husband when it
occurred to [...]
17
Dec
Some lives follow a predetermined trajectory that arcs towards
misery. Or, perhaps, it is only superior fiction such as Amy
Bloom’s that convinces us it may be so and leads us to wonder
whether the damage is reversible.
Lillian Leyb, seemingly the only person to avoid a murderous
rampage on her family, flees a Russian massacre for New York where
she [...]
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