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Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
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Feb 3 2004
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With Pattern Recognition, William Gibson, the man who introduced cyberpunk to the world, gives us his first novel set in the present. But as Gibson's imagination makes clear, our corporation-dominated, technologically advanced reality doesn't need much tweaking to take on the aura of science fiction. ...
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The Fortress of Solitude: A Novel
Jonathan Lethem
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Doubleday
Sep 16 2003
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Dylan Edbus, white, lives on Dean Street, in a mostly black and Hispanic borough of Brooklyn called Boerum Hill. Not far off, are the projects, Wyckoff Gardens and Gowanus Houses. Growing up, the surrounding couple of blocks comprise Dylan...
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Black Bird
Michel Basilieres
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Vintage Canada
Mar 9 2004
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Black Bird, Michel Basilières's superb first novel, tries to be the One Hundred Years of Solitude of Quebec's October Crisis, and, by and large, it fulfills this lofty ambition. Basilières invites his readers into the home of Montreal's Desouche family, an eccentric household that harbours ...
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What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal: A Novel
Zoe Heller
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Picador
May 25 2004
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Zoe Heller juggles journalism and novel-writing successfully in ...
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River of the Brokenhearted
David Adams Richards
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Anchor Canada
Jun 15 2004
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Set in a small town on a river in New Brunswick, River of the Brokenhearted, David Adams Richards's first novel since his Giller Prize-winning Mercy Among the Children, is told by Wendell King, son of Miles King and grandson of the feisty, willful Janie McLeary King, who made her ...
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Tropic Of Night
Michael Gruber
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Harper
Jan 8 2004
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This debut thriller should come with a warning--do not pick up if you have anything else planned for as long as it takes to read it! ...
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Blankets
Craig Thompson
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Top Shelf Productions
Aug 6 2003
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The most successful example of the “graphic novel” is Art Spiegelman’s Maus, which has sold more than a million copies and won the cartoonist a Pulitzer Prize. Yet Spiegelman’s work is fictional only in form and not in content. Although told in the form of an animal fable, ...
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Brick Lane: A Novel
Monica Ali
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Scribner
May 25 2004
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With its gritty Tower Hamlets setting, this sharply observed contemporary novel about the life of an Asian immigrant girl deals cogently with issues of love, cultural difference and the human spirit. The pre-publicity hype about ...
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A Game to Play on the Tracks
Lorna Jackson
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Porcupine's Quill
Aug 1 2003
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Lorna Jackson's A Game to Play on the Tracks, her follow-up to the acclaimed short story collection Dressing for Hope, is a country music song come to life. It's a tale of barroom singers and small-town losers on the coast of British Columbia, of broken hearts and even more ...
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The Great Fire: A Novel
Shirley Hazzard
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Picador
Jun 15 2004
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Despite this Australian writer's absence from the world's fiction stage--since the 1981 publication of ...
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Elle: A Novel
Douglas Glover
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April 2 2003
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If Hieronymus Bosch had travelled to the New World, he might have been able to illustrate ...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
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Anchor Canada
May 18 2004
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Mark Haddon's bitterly funny first novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Christopher John Francis Boone is a 15-year-old boy, mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents ...
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The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
M.G. Vassanji
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Sep 30 2003
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Young Vikram Lall's in-betweenness as an Indian in Kenya is brought home to him when he and his sister Deepa become close friends with an African boy, Njoroge, and two English children, Bill and Annie. It is 1953, and while the Lall family celebrates Queen...
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Ten Thousand Lovers
Edeet Ravel
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Feb 26 2004
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If you want to read one novel that captures the difficulty of living under a veil of terror, read Edeet Ravel's ...
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lost boy lost girl: A Novel
Peter Straub
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Random House
Oct 7 2003
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For its high artistry and uncanny mix of dread and hope, Straub's 16th novel, his shortest in decades, reaffirms the author's standing as the most literate and, with his occasional coauthor Stephen King, most persuasive of contemporary novelists of the dar...
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Good Faith
Jane Smiley
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Anchor
May 11 2004
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Opening a Jane Smiley novel is like slipping into a warm bath. Here are people we know, places where we grew up. But the comforting, unassuming tone of her work allows Smiley incredible latitude as a writer, and her books are full of surprises. ...
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Due Preparations for the Plague
Janette Hospital
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Harper Collins Canada
Jul 3 2003
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Hospital (Oyster) is a writer of many gifts; her dark imagination, astute insights into societal interactions and the supple beauty of her prose, provide an irresistible combination. This latest novel is an enthralling tale about the intertwined fates of t...
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The Haunted Hillbilly
Derek McCormack
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ECW Press
Oct 1 2003
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The backstage action at the Grand Ole Opry has never been wilder than it is in this deliciously sacrilegious comic novel by Derek McCormack. As if situating explicit sex, gory violence, and occult rituals in such a wholesome milieu weren't freaky enough, t...
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The Darkness That Comes Before
R. Scott Bakker
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Penguin Canada (APB)
April 9 2004
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The Darkness That Comes Before is R. Scott Bakker's first novel, the beginning of a large-scale, swords and magic fantasy trilogy. It's a book with historical depth by an author as interested in exploring the philosophy of his world as its violent, conflicted politics. The novel ...
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The Salt Roads: A Novel
Nalo Hopkinson
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Warner Books
Nov 12 2003
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Nalo Hopkinson has been challenging readers and changing the face of science fiction since her critically acclaimed first novel, ...
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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
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Anchor Canada
May 11 2004
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The "kite runner" of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's clo...
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The Sleeping Boy
Barbara J. Stewart
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Anchor Canada
Aug 12 2003
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The first character introduced in Barbara J. Stewart's unconventional but instantly compelling debut novel, ...
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The Pursuit of Alice Thrift
Elinor Lipman
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Vintage
April 13 2004
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Snappy wit, a clever plot and the sheer fun of a book you can't put down await readers of Lipman's (The Inn at Lake Divine) eighth novel, surely her best to date. The eponymous Alice is a sleep-deprived surgical intern at a Boston hospital. A graduate of M...
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The Town that Forgot How to Breathe
Kenneth J. Harvey
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Raincoast Books
Jul 17 2003
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With no more cod to fish, Bareneed, the setting of Kenneth J. Harvey's powerfully eerie ...
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The Bug
Ellen Ullman
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Anchor
Jul 13 2004
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Essayist, memoirist (Close to the Machine) and computer industry pioneer Ullman has now produced an illuminating novel about the fate of a programmer, Ethan Levin, who wrestles with an ineradicable bug in the heroic era of computing. It is 1984, and Tellig...
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