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1990s

Derek Walcott: Omeros

October 5, 2017January 11, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott’s 1990 epic poem Omeros.

Categories Book Reviews, Derek Walcott Tags 1990, 1990s, Nobel Prize, Poetry 24 Comments

Billy Collins: Picnic, Lightning

September 26, 2017November 27, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Billy Collins’ 1998 collection of poetry, Picnic, Lightning.

Categories Billy Collins, Book Reviews Tags 1990s, 1998, Poetry 6 Comments

Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses

September 26, 2017October 15, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Cormac McCarthy’s National Book Award winning novel, All the Pretty Horses.

Categories Book Reviews, Cormac McCarthy Tags 1990s, 1992, National Book Award, NBCC Award 15 Comments

Patrick McGrath: Asylum

September 26, 2017October 8, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Patrick McGrath’s 1996 novel, Asylum.

Categories Book Reviews, Patrick McGrath Tags 1990s, 1996 28 Comments

Martin Amis: Time’s Arrow

September 26, 2017October 2, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Martin Amis’s 1991, Booker Prize shortlisted novel, Time’s Arrow.

Categories Book Reviews, Martin Amis Tags 1990s, 1991, 1991 Booker Prize, Booker Prize 11 Comments

Tim O’Brien: The Things They Carried

September 25, 2017September 11, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Tim O’Brien’s short story collection/Vietnam War memoir The Things They Carried.

Categories Book Reviews, Tim O'Brien Tags 1990, 1990s, Short Story 16 Comments

Philip Roth: American Pastoral

September 25, 2017September 7, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Philip Roth’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel American Pastoral.

Categories Book Reviews, Philip Roth Tags 1990s, 1997, Pulitzer Prize 45 Comments

Imre Kertész: Kaddish for an Unborn Child

September 23, 2017July 17, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertész’s Kaddish for an Unborn Child, translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson.

Categories Book Reviews, Imre Kertész Tags 1990, 1990s, Hungarian, Nobel Prize 2 Comments

Martin Amis: Night Train

September 23, 2017July 14, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Martin Amis’s Night Train.

Categories Book Reviews, Martin Amis Tags 1990s, 1997 21 Comments

Jeffrey Eugenides: The Virgin Suicides

September 23, 2017July 11, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Jeffrey Eugenides’s 1993 debut novel, The Virgin Suicides.

Categories Book Reviews, Jeffrey Eugenides Tags 1990s, 1993 7 Comments
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