3 of 4 available systemwide,
with no current holds.
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Burton Barr Central Library
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824.92 W85052f
  - Floor 5
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On Shelf
- (Checked in: May 20 2013 )
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Desert Sage Library
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824.92 W85052f
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On Shelf
- (Checked in: Jan 9 2013 )
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Ironwood Library
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824.92 W85052f
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Checked Out
- (Due: Jun 12 2013)
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South Mountain Community Library
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824.92 W85052f
  - Floor 2
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On Shelf
- (Checked in: Jan 9 2013 )
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Summary:
In twenty-three passionate, sparkling dispatches--which range over such crucial writers as Thomas Hardy, Leo Tolstoy, Edmund Wilson, and Mikhail Lermontov--literary critic James Wood offers a panoramic look at the modern novel. He effortlessly connects his encyclopedic, passionate understanding of the literary canon with an equally in-depth analysis of the most important authors writing today, including Cormac McCarthy, Lydia Davis, and Aleksandar Hemon.
Contents:
- The fun stuff : homage to Keith Moon
- W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz
- Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go
- Thinking: Norman Rush
- Cormac McCarthy's The road
- Edmund Wilson
- Aleksandar Hemon
- Beyond a boundary: Netherland as a postcolonial novel
- Wounder and wounded
- Robert Alter and the King James Bible
- Tolstoy's War and peace
- Marilynne Robinson
- Lydia Davis
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- Containment: trauma and manipulation in Ian McEwan
- Richard Yates
- George Orwell's very English revolution
- Unfathomable!: (Mikhail Lermantov)
- Thomas Hardy
- Geoff Dyer
- Paul Auster's shallowness
- Reality examined to the point of madness: László Krasznahorkai
- Ismail Kadare
- English muddle: Alan Hollinghurst
- Life's white machine: Ben Lerner
- Packing my father-in-law's library.
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