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 THE UNNAMED
By Joshua Ferris
Reviewed
by MARIE MUNDACA
The Unnamed, is like an ice pick to the heart. There are no loveable shenanigans in this amazingly compelling gale-force storm depicting the ravages of illness and its far-reaching consequences.
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 UNION ATLANTIC
By Adam Haslett
Reviewed by MARIE MUNDACA
Union Atlantic is one of those great novels that will make readers feel smarter just for having read it...at its heart, [the book] is about ambition, entitlement, and, most of all, hunger.
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 CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE JESUS JERK
By Tony DuShane
Reviewed by JENNIFER McCARTIN
From the book’s opening sentence—“One long pubic hair sprung out from my baby-smooth pelvis area” —DuShane’s fictitious protagonist Gabe Dagsland is a mess of raging hormones.
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 WHITE NOISE (HBC CLASSIC)
By Don DeLillo
Reviewed
by JOHN ARAMINI
Recently re-released for the book’s twenty-fifth anniversary, DeLillo’s novel was an incisive look at American culture at the time. In 2010, his observations seem less prescient and more of a reminder that American culture has been lumbering toward our current age of information overload for quite some time.
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