Tag Archives: Literary

Turpentine

by Spring Warren

“With a pitch-perfect narrator and a smorgasbord of sensory detail, Spring Warren brings the Old West back to life. Turpentine casts the rebirth of…

Twelve

by Nick McDonell

“Nick McDonell’s Twelve is an astonishing rush of a first novel, all heat and ice and inexorable narrative drive—the kind of novel you finish…

Twelve Bar Blues

by Patrick Neate

“Entertaining. . . . An anything-goes melting-pot hybrid of Ragtime and White Teeth. . . . Twelve Bar Blues blows with all its might…

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

“There is an eager vitality and exuberance to the writing which is exhilarating; a rush of spirit into the world as though all the…

Tropic of Capricorn

by Henry Miller

“Miller has once and for all blasted away the very foundation of human hypocrisy–moral, social, and political. . . . The grandest passages are…

True North

by Jim Harrison

“Harrison consistently commands our attention for his humanity and his tenderness. That he can create such tension in the process—a tension not released until the last page—and in the end forge such violence shows his skill as a storyteller and makes True North a great achievement.” —Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles…

Truth and Bright Water

by Thomas King

“Marvelous . . . This subtle and deceptively simple tale is an elegiac and beautiful tragicomedy about a single summer, two towns, and three…

Troll

by Johanna Sinisalo

“[An] imaginative and engaging novel of urban fantasy. . . . Overlapping narrative voices nicely underscore the moral of Sinisalo’s ingeniously constructed fable: The stuff of ancient legend shadows with rather unnerving precision the course of unloosed postmodern desire.” —Chris Lehmann, The Washington Post Book World…

Trombone

by Craig Nova

‘mr. Nova’s unusual sense of drama works wonderfully. . . . [The book’s passages] combine to form the sort of jagged, oddly shaped whole…

Train to Pakistan

by Khushwant Singh

“A powerful and affecting novel capturing both the sweep of the cataclysmic events of 1947 and the intimate details of village existence.” –John Gabree,…