Search Results for: How to Draw a Novel
Thomas Glavinic
Thomas Glavinic, born in 1972, has worked as a taxi driver, mountain farmer, and copy writer. His first novel, Carl Haffner’s Love of the Draw, made The Daily Telegraph Book…
The Long Night of White Chickens
by Francisco Goldman“A remarkable novel. . . . Accruing vivid new details at every turn, Roger’s account gives the reader the most immediate possible sense of a country and its people, the…
Matterhorn
by Karl MarlantesA big, powerful saga of men in combat, written over the course of thirty-five years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran.
Wish You Were Here
by Stewart O'Nan“[O’Nan’s] finest and deepest novel to date . . . The action rises and ebbs with the rhythms of daily life—meals, swimming, after-dinner videos, the children’s bedtime. . . ….
The Disappeared
by Kim Echlin“The familiar tale of star-crossed lovers is revisited with gripping immediacy and compelling freshness in Kim Echlin’s The Disappeared. Writing with sensuality, yearning, and in a voice readers will not…
River Spirit
by Leila AboulelaThe spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela about an embattled young woman’s coming of age during the Mahdist War in 19th…
Wanting
by Richard Flanagan“Flanagan sets his novel in the wilds of nineteenth-century Tasmania and evokes its inhabitants with exquisite precision. . . . An entirely unified meditation on desire, ‘the cost of its…
Wetlands
by Charlotte Roche“With her jaunty dissection of the sex life and the private grooming habits of the novel’s eighteen-year-old narrator, Helen Memel, Charlotte Roche has turned the previously unspeakable into the national…
World Made by Hand
by James Howard Kunstler“Far from a typical post-apocalyptic novel. It caters neither to a pseudo-morbid nor faddishly slick vision of the future. Though grim with portent, it is ultimately, as Camus’s novel The…
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
by Kiran Desai“A finely tuned fable that attests to the author’s pitch-perfect ear. . . . The author delineates [the characters] with such with and bemused affection that they insinuate themselves insidiously…
