Fiction: New & Noteworthy

November 6, 2013

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    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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