Lucy Worsley’s new biography of Agatha Christie provides gossipy details of the writer’s life but is light on the work
Worsely resolutely refuses to provide any sustained analysis of the books themselves.
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A Blog About Books and Reading
Worsely resolutely refuses to provide any sustained analysis of the books themselves.
Kapoor plays with the scale of her novel, alternately providing an epic canvas of corruption in political and business life and zooming in on the personal travails of her main characters.
Both books portray societies in which strife and discord have been replaced with a kind of analgesic conformity, but the social cohesion comes at a stiff price.
Rather than a work of prototypical magic realism, El Señor Presidente is more reflective of straightforward modernism.
Uncertainty, both in its quantum nature and its narrative manifestation, is all over these two volumes.
Its generic inappropriateness notwithstanding, "What We Can Know About Thunderman" is worth the price of the current volume all on its own.
Metafiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy are among the genres represented in these brief and intriguing works.
All of the essays find Murakami writing in a first-person, confessional style about matters that interest him as a novelist.
"All of us in publishing, and all of us who love books, owe a debt to her publishing genius," says Bea Hemming of Jonathan Cape.
This gruesome, often darkly funny novel manages to put a new spin on its central metaphor.