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A Gate at the Stairs by Loorie Moore,
Vintage, 2009 - Reviewed by Hilene Flanzbaum
Tassie Keltjin, the idiosyncratic narrator of Lorrie Moore's
most recent novel, A Gate at the Stairs, is worth
knowing. Brilliant and cynical, yet hyper-sensitive to the
world, Tassie loves language: the reader gets the
privilege of reading her thoughts, and is thus treated to . .
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Stitches by David Small, Norton, 2010
- Reviewed by Robert Stapleton
David Small's graphic memoir Stitches is freshly out in
paperback. You should celebrate by grabbing a copy, or even buying
one. Here's why: Small's story is a searing portrait of the
haunting images of his formative years, and they are
haunting.
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Eclipse by Richard North Patterson,
St. Martin's, 2009 - Reviewed by Judi Morrel
Inspired by the true story of the human-rights activist Ken
Saro-Wiwa's arbitrary tribunal in Nigeria about 15 years ago,
Eclipse is a can't-put-it-down, geopolitical legal
thriller, akin in some ways to Patterson's last novel,
Exile. The setting of Eclipse is a fictional West
African country, Luandia, with a corrupt military government, a
brutal dictator and. . .
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