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Tremor by Teju Cole
“A masterful novel by one of America’s finest writers . . . Cole is not just offering us a novel about art, migration, or marginalisation, rather a new politics of seeing, reading and thinking.”—The Daily Telegraph
Nobody’s Fool by Richard Russo
“Years ago, when I felt that the world weighed too heavily on my shoulders and believed (as only the young do) that the world would not willingly let me go, I used to dream of disappearing to some remote upstate New York town and checking in, a permanent guest, at its crumbling bleak hotel. Such towns, which I imagined to be off the edge of the map, are very much at the center of Richard Russo’s fictional geography. His ambitious new novel, “Nobody’s Fool,” is set in North Bath, N.Y., a fractionally less blighted version of the blue-collar dead end where his earlier novels, Mohawk and The Risk Pool, take place.” – Francine Prose, The New York Times June 20, 1993
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