Tag Archives: Literary
How It Is
by Samuel Beckett“The absolute sureness of design. . . built phrase by phrase into a beautifully and tightly wrought structure–a few dozen expressions permuted with deliberate…
How the Dead Live
by Will Self“How the Dead Live overflows with rhetorical ecstasy–arabesques of assonance and alliteration, puns peppering every paragraph, chiasmus turning clause after clause back on themselves…
How the Light Gets In
by M.J. HylandA remarkable U.S. debut that is “a brilliant capturing of the intensity of a child on the frightening brink of adulthood that simultaneously incorporates…
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
by Sasa Stanisic“In Sasa Stanisic’s bittersweet, musical novel about a boy growing up in Bosnia-Herzogovina before and during the war, many things happen that are impossible to understand, startlingly visual, bordering on the surreal but all too real. . . . This is a funny, heartbreaking, beautifully written novel.” —Mary Brennan, The…
A House Unlocked
by Penelope Lively“In this elegiac yet resolutely unsentimental book, the house becomes a Rosetta stone for the author’s familial memories and an unwitting index of social…
The Honeymoon
by Justin Haythe“The writing is shapely and crafted; the characters glow.” –GraceAnne A. DeCandido, Booklist
An Honorable Profession
by John L'Heureux“An Honorable Profession is a novel about survival both personal and professional, not merely that but survival with dignity and self-respect. It is itself…
The Hole We’re In
by Gabrielle Zevin…the influence of parents, and establishes herself as an astute chronicler of the way we spend now. . . . The Corrections for our recessionary times.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)…
The Holiday Season
by Michael Knight“Michael Knight has the rare power to make a setting breathe, to invest it with a vitality that seems as authentic and intense as…
The Hired Man
by Aminatta Forna“Forna is a born storyteller . . . Not since Remains of the Day has an author so skillfully revealed the way history’s layers…
