In Letters to Little Comrade, Dan K. Woo offers a satirical, ultimately tragic view of womanhood in modern China
The brief novel's overall structure is frequently at odds with the specificity of the narrative that is unfolding.
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The brief novel's overall structure is frequently at odds with the specificity of the narrative that is unfolding.
Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction provides a thoughtful overview of the man and his work.
"I think Quebec is Newfoundland writ large because we do have our own culture and that is so tied up in the language."
Very much in the spirit of a good grift, the novel lures us in willingly before snatching all our assurances away from us.
This Is the House That Luke Built is a strong first novel, clearly adept at marrying its form and content.
Victory City reads like a defiant rebuke to those who work to suppress words and ideas.
The novel is about nothing so much as the nature of storytelling.
What is apparent throughout Bad Cree is Johns's facility for dealing with the rocky and tumultuous terrain of familial memory.
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.
"I wanted to approach magic as a sort of organic, biological thing."