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Article: Paperbacks / Fiction; No shortage of fascinating fiction in '97 paperbacks.(ENTERTAINMENT)(Review) (book review)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- December 7, 1997
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If you consider it a luxury to kick back and absorb a book of fiction, perhaps you should slow down and reconsider the genre with one of these paperback picks.
If you were too thrifty to chuck over $30 for the hardcover of the 1,079-page "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace, consider its $14.95 paperback version. If you can't commit to that big a book, don't worry: This list includes shorter (but still scintillating) fiction.
- "Housekeeping" by Marilynne Robinson (Noonday Press, $11, 224 pages). Two sisters struggle toward adulthood facing the price of loss and survival and permanence.
- "Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast" by Bill ...
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... ... rewrite, I just start over and over and over again, with a blank page, which is why it takes me so long to write a novel." Hustvedt ... her previous fictions, The Blindfold and The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, revealed that she has an elegant way with words. Of the latter ...
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