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Robert Coover: Open House

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Post published:30 June 2023
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The latest addition to my website is Robert Coover's Open House. There is a party going on in the penthouse suite in a Manhattan high-rise but nobody know who is…

Cormac McCarthy: Stella Maris

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Post published:14 December 2022
Post category:Mental health Psychiatry The Modern Novel website USA
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The latest addition to my website is Cormac McCarthy's Stella Maris. As he is ninety, this may well be his last novel and he definitely goes out with a grim…

Cormac McCarthy: The Passenger

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Post published:31 October 2022
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The latest addition to my website is Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger. Published when he was eighty-nine, it is clear that McCarthy can still write a first-class novel. Our hero is…

A. M. Homes: The Unfolding

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Post published:2 September 2022
Post category:Politics The Modern Novel website USA Women
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The latest addition to my website is A. M. Homes' The Unfolding. Homes tells two linked stories relating to the Hitchens family. The family is the Big Guy (we never…

Jonathan Franzen: Crossroads

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Post published:27 November 2021
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The latest addition to my website is Jonathan Franzen's Crossroads. This is another huge book from Franzen telling the story of a dysfunctional family (church minister father, mother, three sons…

Susan Daitch: Siege of Comedians

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Post published:21 October 2021
Post category:New York The Modern Novel website Trafficking USA Vienna Women
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The latest addition to my website is Susan Daitch's Siege of Comedians. This is a superb and highly complex novel with three main characters and lots of secondary ones. We…

Richard Powers: Bewilderment

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Post published:17 September 2021
Post category:Astrobiology Environment Father-Son Mental health The Modern Novel website USA
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The latest addition to my website is Richard Powers' Bewilderment. This is another superb novel from Powers, about a widower, Theo, an astrobiologist bringing up a highly intelligent and very…

Kazuo Ishiguro: Klara and the Sun

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Post published:18 March 2021
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The latest addition to my website is Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun. The novel is set in the not too distant further in the United States and tells the…

Don DeLillo: The Silence

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Post published:21 October 2020
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The latest addition to my website is Don DeLillo's The Silence. This is an-the-end-of-the-world-may-be-nearer-than-you-think novel. Two couples and a solo man are to meet to watch the Superbowl on 6…

Marilynne Robinson: Jack

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Post published:28 September 2020
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The latest addition to my website is Marilynne Robinson's Jack. This is the fourth book in Robinson's Gilead series. Unlike the others, none of it takes place in Gilead, Iowa,…