THE BEST OF YOUTH, by Michael Dahlie
OFFBEAT TRAGICOMEDY OF manners about a hapless young man with plenty of money and too many literary ambitions.
Grade: B PLUS
THE BEST OF YOUTH
W. W. Norton & Company
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
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OFFBEAT TRAGICOMEDY OF manners about a hapless young man with plenty of money and too many literary ambitions.
Grade: B PLUS
THE BEST OF YOUTH
W. W. Norton & Company
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
GENTLY CYNICAL TALE of big college football sends a diffident grad student roadtripping with a legendary coach.
Grade: B PLUS
LOVE'S WINNING PLAYS
W. W. Norton & Company
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Humor, Novels, Sports
A DISGRACED DOCTOR UNCOVERS a sordid web of crime in this classic Italian sixties pulp novel (newly translated).
Grade: B PLUS
A PRIVATE VENUS
Hersilia Press
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Mystery, Novels
A MAGNIFICENT LOVE LETTER to the city of Venice, in the form of an engaging, richly detailed work of history.
Grade: B PLUS
VENICE: A NEW HISTORY
Viking
2012
Tags: Art History, B Plus Reviews, History, Italy, Non-Fiction, Social History, Venice
A HAZY TANGLE OF EMOTIONS comes to light under the French sun in this Woolf-esque tragicomedy of manners.
Grade: B PLUS
SWIMMING HOME
Bloomsbury USA
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
TAUT, SUSPENSEFUL TALE follows a high-end madam whose safe double life as a suburban mom is rapidly unraveling.
Grade: B PLUS
AND WHEN SHE WAS GOOD
William Morrow
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Mystery, Novels
BLEAK, TERRIFYING NOVEL from Swedish horror superstar John Ajvide Lindqvist wields the power of a nightmare.
Grade: B PLUS
LITTLE STAR
St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne Books
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Horror, Novels
FASCINATING SOCIAL HISTORY of “pseudoscience” debates focuses on Velikovsky’s “worlds in collision” theory.
Grade: B PLUS
THE PSEUDOSCIENCE WARS: IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY AND THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN FRINGE
University of Chicago Press
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, History of Science, Non-Fiction, Science, Social History
GRAND STEAMPUNKY COLLAGE of science fiction and historical fact revolves around H. G. Wells’s WAR OF THE WORLDS.
Grade: B PLUS
THE MAP OF THE SKY
Atria
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction
RAMSHACKLE DELTA PICARESQUE finds two tough repo men trying to help the world’s most no-account thieves.
Grade: B PLUS
BELUGA
St. Martin's Press
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Humor, Mystery, Novels