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:
"Bright ****ny Morning" by James Frey - After the debacle with his
memoir "A Million Little Pieces," James Frey turns to fiction with
"Bright ****ny Morning." It's a novel about contem****ary Los Angeles
and James Frey moves dozens of characters in and out of the story.
Some flash across the page and aren't seen again, others continue to
appear throughout the novel. It's full of greed, crime, ambition,
drugs, humiliation, and redemption. Interspersed throughout the novel
are vignettes about this history and culture of Los Angeles. "Bright
****ny Morning" has received mixed reviews with the USA Today saying,
"Bottom line: If, despite the scandal, you loved 'A Million Little
Pieces,' you might want to devour 'Bright ****ny Morning.' Like its
author, it can be called many things, but never boring. Or timid."
All reviews are at:
http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/bright_****ny_morning
Amazon.com link:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0061573132/?tag=3Dreviewsofbooks8-20
"Peace" by Richard Bausch - "Peace" is set during a winter night in
Italy during World War II. Three American soldiers, led by Robert
Marson, are sent on a mission over a mountain to see what the enemy is
doing. The men are already unsettled after witnessing the death of
their comrades and the murder of a woman the day before. They haven't
decided whether her death was unnecessary or just another ugly facet
of war. They're guided that evening by an Italian guide who may be a
Fascist spy, and as the rain turns to snow, they're unsure where
they're headed or what the enemy is actually doing. Marson eventually
presses forward on his own, fighting a foot infection and a feeling of
deadness inside as he feels his humanity being consumed by the war.
Richard Bausch's novel has received positive reviews with the New York
Times calling it, "a short, bleakly brilliant one-act drama depicting
the futility and moral complexity of combat."
Excerpt and all reviews are at:
http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/peace
Amazon.com link:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307268330/?tag=3Dreviewsofbooks8-20
Multiple links to full-length professional reviews of the following
books released in the UK have been added to http://www.reviewsofbooks.com
in the last week:
"The Seance" by John Harwood - "The Seance" is set in Victorian
England where Constance Langton lives with her distant father and a
mother who has never recovered from the death of her infant daughter.
Constance suspects that she's a foundling, but she takes her mother to
a seance to hear from the infant in the afterlife. It ends with
disaster, though. Soon after, Constance becomes the heir to a mansion
in Suffolk, but the family lawyer advises her to sell it unseen or
burn it down immediately. This moves the narrative about the haunting
of the hall and the tragic events that occurred a lifetime ago, but
Constance needs to understand it to salvage her life in the present.
John Harwood's ghost story has received positive reviews with the
London Times saying, "Wilkie Collins would be proud: this is a
Victorian world of mesmerism and spirits, vapours and delirium, doomed
inheritances, ****vering maids and spooky visitations in the night."
All reviews are at:
http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/seance
Amazon.co.uk link:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0224081861/?tag=3Dbookreviews-21
"The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga - "The White Tiger" takes the form
of seven letters from Bangalore businessman Balram Halwai to the
Chinese premier who is scheduled to visit India. In these letters, he
tells his rags-to-riches story, how he overcame the poverty of the
poor village in the countryside to being a success in the New India.
Part of his journey involved being a driver to a rich family in New
Delhi, where he learned that success often involves corruption,
cruelty, and a different set of rules than those that apply to the
impoverished who work for them. Balram is convinced that the miracle
economies of India and China mean the end of the era of the white
men. At the same time, he exposes the seamier aspects that will leave
many of their populace behind. Aravind Adiga's debut novel has
received positive reviews with The Independent saying, "The truth, as
it begins to emerge, is as shocking as it is fantastic. It's a rich
subject, and Adiga mines all its darkly comic possibilities. Halwai's
voice =96 wised-up, mordant, sardonic, self-mocking and utterly without
illusions =96 is as compelling as it is persuasive, and one of the
triumphs of the book."
All reviews are at:
http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/white_tiger
Amazon.co.uk link:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1416562591/?tag=3Dbookreviews-21
Happy reading!
Bill - administrator of http://www.reviewsofbooks.com
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