Sunday, July 2, 2017

SUGGESTED FICTION

Andre Aciman, Enigma Variations (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017).

John Banville (aka Benjamin Black), Wolf on a String: A Novel (New York: Henry Holt, 2017).

Sebastian Barry, Days Without End: A Novel (New York: Viking, 2017).

J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus (New York: Viking, 2017).

Edmund Crispin, Love Lies Bleeding, illustrated by A. Richard Allen (London: The Folio Society, 2016).

Nathan Hill, The Nix: A Novel (New York: Knopf, 2016).

Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day, illustrated by Finn Campbell-Notman (London: The Folio Society, 2007).

Ha Jin, The Boat Rocker: A Novel (New York: Pantheon Books, 2016).

MacKinlay Kantor, Andersonville (60th Anniversary Edition) (New York: Plume, 1955, 2016).

Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme & Ancre, 1916, introduced by David Malouf; illustrated by Eri Griffin (London: The Folio Society, 2012) ("He was thinking of his wife and children, of the comparative security in which he had left them, and of what their fate might be in the worst event; but war is a jealous god, destroying ruthlessly his rivals." Id. at 237.).

Oliva Manning, Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy, introduction by Rachel Cusk (New York: New York Review Books Classics, 2010).

Oliva Manning, Fortunes of War: The Levant Trilogy, introduction by Anthony Sattin (New York: New York Review Books Classics, 2014).

Oliva Manning, School For Love, introduction by Jane Smiley (New York: New York Review Books Classics, 2009).

Mary McCarthy, Novels and Stories 1942-1963: The Company She Keeps/The Oasis/The Grove of Academe/A Charmed Life/Stories, edited by Thomas Mallon (New York: Library of America, 2017).

Kei Miller, Augustown: A Novel (New York: Pantheon Books, 2017) ("To know a man properly, you must know the shape of his hurt--the specific wound around which his person has been formed like a scab." Id. at 121.).

Andrew Miller, The Crossing (New York: Europa Editions, 2017).

Alan Moore, Jerusalem: A Novel (New York & London: Liveright, 2016). Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World: Stories (New York: The Penguin Press, 2017).

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods, illustrations by Omar Rayyan (London: The Folio Society, 1992, 2016) ("'Find a philosopher?'
 'Right. Someone who know how to think. Someone who can help me stop being a tortoise.' []
'What do philosophers look like? said Brutha, 'When they'r not having a bath, I mean.'
'They do a lot of thinking,' said Om. 'Look f ro someone with strained expression.'
'That might just mean constipation.'" Id. at 114-115.).

George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel (New York: Random House, 2017).

Matthew Sullivan, Midnight at the Bright Idea Bookstore: A Novel (New York: Scribner, 2017).