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Book Marks logo Rachel Cusk’s Parade , Francine Prose’s 1974 , and Andrew O’Hagan’s Caledonian Road all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks , Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * Fiction Caledonian Road Cover 1. Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan (W. W. Norton) 5 Rave • 6 Positive • 5 Mixed Read an excerpt from Caledonian Road here “Halfway through Caledonian Road the deaths start to occur and the tone, so far lightly satirical, with the odd epigrammatic flourish, darkens in turn … Wildly readable, brimming with energy and filled with enjoyable contemporary detail. Brash, prating characters stalk its pages, demanding attention and understanding; yet, in Andrew O’Hagan’s redistributive narrative justice, the most heartfelt, and heart-rending, moments tend to involve those whose fate is to lurk on the periphery.” –Suzi Feay ( Times Literary Supplement ) Parade Cover 2. Parade by Rachel Cusk (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 6 Rave • 7 Positive • 5 Mixed • 2 Pan “An icy thought experiment … Intellectually, these thoughts can be exhilarating. Instead of plot or character development, Cusk offers a gimlet-eyed analysis of what it is to be the creator of a world in which nobody really exists … This Cuskian narrator’s voice – cold, detached, judgmental, excoriating – emerges as a dominant and distinctive energy, an individual … This deepening of chaos is Cusk’s artistic project here, and she delivers it coldly. No doubt she’s pausing now to observe our pain.” –Lucy Atkins ( The Guardian ) Sandwich Cover 3. Sandwich by Catherine Newman (Harper) 6 Rave • 1 Positive • 1 Pan “Newman elegantly segues from Nora Ephron-like comic passages like that one to elegy. To return to the same place every summer, after all, is to be periodically brought up short by the passage of time … Sandwich is my idea of the perfect summer novel: shimmering and substantive. One more aspect of Newman’s book deserves highlighting: like many other recent novels by best-selling female authors—I’m thinking of Jennifer Weiner, Ann Patchett and Megan Abbott — Newman introduces […]
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