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A Note from Barbara, August 22, 2011

By on August 21, 2011

Fascinated though I was with Matthew Pearl’s foray into science (not sf) thriller (The Technologists), Margot Livesey’s Jane Eyre update (The Flight of Gemma Hardy), and Josh Bazell’s latest (Wild Thing), this week my fiction picks are by scally2 A Note from Barbara, August 22, 2011five novelists just bursting into bloom. They’re also intriguingly linked. Andromeda Romano-Lax (The Detour) is director of the 49 Alaska Writing Center, of which Eowyn Ivey (The Snow Child) is a founding member. Like The Detour, Anna Funder’s All That I Am is set in 1930s Europe. Erin Duffy’s Bond Girl recalls a dystopian near-past, when the economy crashed, while Julianna Baggott’s Pure imagines a dystopian world that promises to awe us all.

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Barbara Hoffert (bhoffert@mediasourceinc.com, @BarbaraHoffert on Twitter) is Editor, LJ Prepub Alert; past chair of the Materials Selection Committee of the RUSA (Reference and User Services Assn.) division of the American Library Association; and past president of the National Book Critics Circle, to which she has just been reelected.

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