Search Results for: How to Draw a Novel
White Ghost Girls
by Alice Greenway“A sensual, haunting story of sibling love, danger and infatuation with the unknown. . . . This is a brave and artful book, not less powerful for its economy, but…
A Spell of Winter
by Helen Dunmore…smell guilt on your skin and–most powerfully–how you can rationalize an act until you convince yourself it never even happened. . . . [A] Gothic wonder of a novel.” –Salon…
Fair Warning
by Robert Olen Butler“[Fair Warning is] often brilliant, [a] meditation on love and possession . . . Butler wins us over in the opening pages with this companionable, warts-and-all narrator . . ….
Bitter Fruit
by Achmat Dangor“A haunting story of a family disintegrating, wonderfully authentic . . . its progress like slow dancing.” –Barbara Trapido, The Independent…
The Thief’s Journal
by Jean Genet“One of the strongest and most vital accounts of a life ever set down on paper. . . . Genet has dramatized the story of his own life with a…
Our Lady of the Flowers
by Jean Genet“Elegiac elegance, alternately muted, languorous, vituperative, tender, glamorous, bitchy, lush, mockingly feminine, “high camp,” overripe, vigorous, rigorous, exalted. . . . A remarkable achievement.” –The New York Times Book Review…
The Dark Clue
by James Wilson“A luscious Victorian thriller that . . . sends two characters from [Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White] on a brilliant literary mission. . . . We are soon exposed…
The Adventures of Lucky Pierre
by Robert Coover“An embodiment of a spectacle-obsessed entertainment culture that seems horribly like our own. . . . It delivers the ancient narrative satisfaction of seeing a character deal with the inexplicabilities…
A Peculiar Grace
by Jeffrey Lent“Family-fracturing secrets are at the heart of Lent’s luminous third novel, a transcendent story about the healing power of love and art. . . . This sympathetic depiction of a…
I Married You for Happiness
by Lily Tuck“One of the most beautiful love songs in novel form you’ll ever read . . . Tuck is a genius with moments . . . Her ability to capture beauty…
