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Eric Siblin: The Cello Suites

June 27, 2016December 29, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Eric Siblin’s look into Bach’s music The Cello Suites. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Eric Siblin Tags 2000s, 2009, Nonfiction 7 Comments

Ron Hansen: Mariette in Ecstasy

June 27, 2016December 25, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Ron Hansen’s Mariette in Ecstasy. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Ron Hansen Tags 1990s, 1991 6 Comments

Brian Moore: Lies of Silence

June 27, 2016December 21, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Brian Moore’s Lies of Silence. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Brian Moore Tags 1990, 1990 Booker Prize, 1990s, Booker Prize 9 Comments

Penelope Fitzgerald: The Bookshop

June 27, 2016December 17, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Bookshop. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Penelope Fitzgerald Tags 1970s, 1978, 1978 Booker Prize, Booker Prize 7 Comments

Buddhadeva Bose: My Kind of Girl

June 27, 2016December 9, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Buddhadeva Bose’s My Kind of Girl, translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Buddhadeva Bose Tags 1950s, 1951, Archipelago Books, Bengali Leave a comment

Damon Galgut: The Good Doctor

June 27, 2016December 6, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Damon Galgut’s The Good Doctor. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Damon Galgut Tags 2000s, 2003, 2003 Booker Prize, Booker Prize 5 Comments

Horacio Castellanos Moya: Senselessness

June 27, 2016December 3, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Horacio Castellanos Moya’s Senselessness, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Horacio Castellanos Moya Tags 2000s, 2004, New Directions, Spanish 6 Comments

William Kotzwinkle: Swimmer in the Secret Sea

June 26, 2016November 30, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews William Kotzwinkle’s Swimmer in the Secret Sea. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, William Kotzwinkle Tags 1970s, 1975 16 Comments

J.M. Coetzee: Slow Man

June 26, 2016November 22, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, J.M. Coetzee Tags 2000s, 2005, 2005 Booker Prize, Booker Prize, Nobel Prize 10 Comments

Harry Mulisch: The Assault

June 26, 2016November 18, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Harry Mulisch’s The Assault. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Harry Mulisch Tags 1980s, 1982, Dutch 12 Comments
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