Literary Fiction
Last Night in Twisted River | JOHN IRVING: In New Hampshire, a 12-year-old boy shoots the town constable's girlfriend, thinking she was a bear. He and his father become fugitives as the constable feverishly tracks them. Irving tells the story of the boy's life over five decades. LATE OCT
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The Humbling | PHILIP ROTH: Roth's Indignation (*** Nov/Dec 2008) was published just one year ago, and here, in his 30th book, he ruminates again on aging, life, and death. Simon Axler was once a leading stage actor, but now in his 60s, he has lost his confidence and, he feels, his talent. It will be no surprise to Roth fans that, as the publisher puts it, "into this shattering account of inexplicable and terrifying self-evacuation bursts a counterplot of unusual erotic desire." NOV
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