Fiction: New & Noteworthy

By LARBNovember 6, 2013

Fiction: New & Noteworthy

Sea of Hooks by Lindsay Hill
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee

THIS WEEK, Elissa Schappell and Kyle McCarthy consider the influence of Alice Munro in light of her Nobel Prize, and we review two puzzling novels that arrived this fall: J.M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus and Lindsay Hill's Sea of Hooks.

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Honoring 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner Alice Munro


 


 
 


 


 
 


Magical Child, Troubled Child


Roger Bellin on JM Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus


 
 



 
 


An Upside-Down Diagonal World


Diane Mehta on Lindsay Hill's Sea of Hooks


 


 


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