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September/October
2001 Book Sense 76 Picks
Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.
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 Dhalgren
by Delaney, Samuel R.
(Vintage, $18.00, 0375706682)
"Delany's masterpiece of identity and memory in a post-disaster world is a powerful work of imagination. The pleasure of Delany's narrative comes from the sense of wiggling away from one's grasp at the very moment when one thinks understanding has been achieved. As fresh and original as when it was published in 1974." - David Bowman, Shaman Drum Bookshop, Ann Arbor, MI
Power of the Dog, The
by Savage,
Thomas
(Back Bay, $13.95, 0316610895)
"Originally published in 1967, this is a novel of the Old West in its sunset - 1920s Montana - and about 2 brothers approaching their early 40s who are as different as night and day. There is toughness here, and tenderness to offset it, with prose clear and fresh to the ear. Savage's texture of the landscape and the people is like no other, and yet one is inclined to remark upon similarities to Stegner or McCarthy." - Kathryn Clark, Square Books, Oxford, MS
Way of Life, Like Any Other, A
by O'Brien, Darcy
(New York Review of Books, $12.95, 094032279X) "This novel of a childhood
growing up in post-WWII Hollywood is euphoric and honest. Likened to Catcher
in the Rye, it's the story of the son of two former movie stars who must
come to grips with their divorce, lost wealth, and ego-driven idiosyncrasies.
With a keen sense of the ironic, it is light-hearted and outrageous."
- Jesse DeClercq, Bookshelf at the Boatworks, Tahoe City, CA
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