Category Archives: literary book review

Review: Bear by Marian Engel

Posted on October 29, 2023 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: ‘A strange and wonderful book, plausible as kitchens, but shapely as a folktale, and with the same disturbing resonance.’ – Margaret Atwood Lou is a shy and diligent librarian at the local Heritage Institute. She … Continue reading →

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Review: The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington

Posted on September 18, 2023 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: publisher, Bookshop, Amazon Synopsis: Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeous tableaus, biting satire, roguish comedy, and brilliant, effortless flights of the imagination. Nowhere are these qualities more ingeniously … Continue reading →

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Review: Not Forever, But For Now by Chuck Palahniuk

Posted on August 28, 2023 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a hilarious horror satire about a family of professional killers responsible for the most atrocious events in history and the young brothers that are destined to … Continue reading →

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Review: Their Four Hearts by Vladimir Sorokin

Posted on August 23, 2023 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Dalkey Archive, Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: In many respects, Their Four Hearts is a book of endings and final things. Vladimir Sorokin wrote it in the year the Soviet Union collapsed and then didn’t write fiction for ten years after … Continue reading →

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Review: The Child and The River by Henri Bosco

Posted on August 9, 2023 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A new translation of an evocative, Huckleberry Finn –esque French bestseller about a young farmboy, the river where he is forbidden to play, and the adventures that ensue when he disobeys his family’s wishes. … Continue reading →

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Review: Zero-Sum: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates

Posted on July 16, 2023 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers, the award-winning, best-selling author of Blonde A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous … Continue reading →

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Review: Friend of My Youth by Amit Chaudhuri

Posted on April 30, 2023 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: In Friend of My Youth, a novelist named Amit Chaudhuri visits his childhood home of Bombay. The city, reeling from the impact of the 2008 terrorist attacks, weighs heavily on his mind, as does the … Continue reading →

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Review: The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem

Posted on April 21, 2023 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer in the desert outside of Los Angeles. She’s on a quest to find her friend’s missing daughter, Arabella, and hears that Heist is preternaturally … Continue reading →

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Review: Monument Maker by David Keenan

Posted on March 17, 2023 by ghostvillehero

Order it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: David Keenan is one of today’s most exciting, fearless, and entertaining writers. Monument Maker is his most daring book to date. Is it possible for books to dream? For books to dream within books? Is there … Continue reading →

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