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|author=Aimee Bender

|title=The Color Master

|rating=4.5

|genre=Short Stories

|summary=Another parade of fascinating, unusual personalities and odd

events from the author of [[Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender|Willful

Creatures]]. This time out [[:Category:Aimee Bender|Aimee]]

introduces us to people like Hans the fake Nazi, young William to whom

all people look the same and Janet who decides to spice up her

love-life with detrimental results. Among other things we also

witness a less-than-altruistic anti-war demonstration and an odd

occurrence in an orchard showing how odd an apple-only diet could make

us.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953898</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author=David Vann

|summary=Charles Dubow's debut novel promises to be a modern day Great Gatsby. It too is set amongst the rich and famous outside New York, it too is narrated by a character seemingly on the outside, Maddy's childhood friend Walter.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007501307</amazonuk>

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~~|title=Unfaithfully Yours~~

~~|author=Nigel Williams~~

~~|rating=4~~

~~|genre=General Fiction~~

|summary=When Nigel Williams first really burst on to the best-seller list, a couple of decades ago, it was with a book set in Wimbledon that really quite tickled a younger me – and my mother. But then he produced two more in the same series, and we soon decided he was a bit of a one-trick pony, and could never be sure how much of the trilogy we'd read, or be too eager to read more. Flash forward, and Williams has certainly branched out – his setting this time is Putney. Wimbledon Common is now Putney Heath, and so on. But here he provides an epistolatory novel – and if there's one kind of novel to make me prick up my ears it is one built from letters. It is the blatant two-and-fro timing of the narrative, and the succinctness that characters are formed with, that strike me as obvious benefits of such a book – and Unfaithfully Yours has those and many more.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472106741</amazonuk>~~

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