Hi all,
Multiple links to full-length professional reviews of the following
books released in the US have been added to http://www.reviewsofbooks.com
in the last week:
"Spook Country" by William Gibson - In "Spook Country," Hollis Henry
was once a minor rock star and cult favorite, but she's working as a
journalist at the beginning of this century. She's been hired by a
magazine that's about to launch, but for some reason keeping a very
low profile, to investigate Bobby Chombo, the producer of locative art
(viewing historical happenings and contem****ary artistic images in
situ through virtual-reality devices). Chombo is more interested in a
cargo container traveling through the South China Sea and soon
disappears. In New York, Tito is a young man who speaks Russian and
is working for a syndicate based out of Cuba. Milgrim is a drug
addict supplied by a military intelligence officer who forces him to
translate the Russian messages used by Tito's family. Milgrim,
though, apparently has some information about a mysterious cargo
container. William Gibson's novel has received mostly positive
reviews with the Wa****ngton Post saying, "Despite a full complement of
thieves, pushers and pirates, 'Spook Country' is less a conventional
thriller than a devastatingly precise reflection of the American
zeitgeist, and it bears comparison to the best work of Don DeLillo.
Although he is a very different sort of writer, Gibson, like DeLillo,
writes fiction that is powerfully attuned to the currents of dread,
dismay and baffled fury that permeate our culture. 'Spook Country' --
which is a beautifully multi-leveled title -- takes an unflinching
look at that culture."
Excerpt and all reviews are at:
http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/spook_country
"Loving Frank" by Nancy Horan - "Loving Frank" is a fictionalized
account of Frank Lloyd Wright's torrid love affair with Mamah
Borthwick Cheney. Mamah and her husband hired Frank to design a house
for them, and the attraction between Frank and Mamah simmered for
years. Both were married with kids during an age where divorce was a
rare event with social and cultural perils, especially for a woman.
In 1909, Frank and Mamah left the spouses and children and sailed for
Europe. They eventually returned and Frank designed the house
Taliesin for her in Wisconsin. Tragedy eventually claimed Mamah,
leaving her a footnote in most biographies of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Nancy Horan's debut novel has received mostly positive reviews with
BookPage saying, "It is one thing to read of Mamah's tragic end in a
paragraph or two embedded in the many accomplishments of Frank Lloyd
Wright. But it is quite another to read about it after feeling you've
come to know her, and that is the power of this beautiful love story."
Excerpt and all reviews are at:
http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/loving_frank
Happy reading!
Bill - administrator of http://www.reviewsofbooks.com
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