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What do readers say about Never Let Me Go?
interesting and enjoyableelegiac yet life-celebratingsubtle and gentlelight and entertaining styleFrom the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a devastating novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss.
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an excl... Read more about Never Let Me Go
My name is Kathy H. I’m thirty-one years old, and I’ve been a carer now for over eleven years. That sounds long enough, I know, but actually they want me to go on for another eight months, until the e...
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What do readers say about Station Eleven?
descriptive and compellingexcellent storytelling and writinghaunting and driftingeverything went awayNATIONAL BESTSELLER
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse-the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great La... Read more about Station Eleven
THE KING STOOD in a pool of blue light, unmoored. This was act 4 of King Lear, a winter night at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto. Earlier in the evening, three little girls had played a clapping game ons...
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What do readers say about The Great Gatsby?
lyrical and flowedshort and deceptively simpleflowery and descriptiveslow and boringInvited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky b... Read more about The Great Gatsby
He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgmen...
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What do readers say about One Hundred Years of Solitude?
exotic, epical stylefantastic and abusurdist elementsoriginality and creativitylatin american magic realism"One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. . . . Mr. Garcia Marquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is pr... Read more about One Hundred Years of Solitude
MANY YEARS LATER, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty ...
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What do readers say about Wolf Hall?
sharp, distinct and livelylove-it or hate-itspeedy, almost abbreviatedinteresting writing styleWINNER OF THE 2009 MAN BOOKER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by ci... Read more about Wolf Hall
Felled, dazed, silent, he has fallen; knocked full length on the cobbles of the yard. His head turns sideways; his eyes are turned towards the gate, as if someone might arrive to help him out. One blo...
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What do readers say about Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World?
stream of consciousnessinteresting and strangehard-boiled wonderland sectionsmultiple threaded story lineHyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is Haruki Murakami's deep dive into the very nature of consciousness.
Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in whic... Read more about Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
THE elevator continued its impossibly slow ascent. Or at least I imagined it was ascent. There was no telling for sure: it was so slow that all sense of direction simply vanished. It could have been g...
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What do readers say about O Pioneers!?
spare yet lyrical prosesimple, unadorned prosethe progression of timebeautiful and surprising"A direct, human tale of love and struggle and attainment-American in the best sense of the word."-The New York Times
On the windy Nebraska prairie, Alexandra Bergson tends to the failing farm that she inherited from her father. She struggles to rais... Read more about O Pioneers!
One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away. A mist of fine snowflakes was curling and eddying about the clus...
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