The National eBookStore http://www.nationalebookstore.com www.nationalebookstore.com Fri, 18 May 2012 10:00:39 +0000 en hourly 1 LISA ROBERTSON’S MAGENTA SOUL WHIP http://www.nationalebookstore.com/lisa-robertsons-magenta-soul-whip/ http://www.nationalebookstore.com/lisa-robertsons-magenta-soul-whip/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 10:00:39 +0000 National eBookStore http://www.nationalebookstore.com/?p=1029

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LISA ROBERTSON’S MAGENTA SOUL WHIP By Lisa Robertson

In these intellectual poems, the experimental curtains suddenly part to reveal clear, durable truth.

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THE LIVING FIRE: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2010
By Edward Hirsch

Hirsch’s “living fire” is an irrational counterforce with which he balances his dignified quotidian.

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THE LONG SONG By Andrea Levy

Levy’s high-spirited, ambitious heroine works on a plantation in the final days of slavery in Jamaica.

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THE LOST BOOKS OF THE ODYSSEY By Zachary Mason

The conceit behind the multiple Odysseuses here (comic, dead, doubled, amnesiac) is that this is a translation of an ancient papyrus, a collection of variations on the myth.

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THE LOTUS EATERS By Tatjana Soli

The photojournalist heroine of Soli’s Vietnam War novel ponders whether those who represent war merely replicate its violence.

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MATTERHORN: A Novel of the Vietnam War By Karl Marlantes

In this tale, 30 years in the creation, bloody folly envelops a Marine company’s construction, abandonment and retaking of a remote hilltop outpost.

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MEMORY WALL By Anthony Doerr

These strange, beautiful stories all ask: What, if anything, will be spared time’s depredations?

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DOUBLE HAPPINESS By Mary-Beth Hughes

Hughes likes to juxtapose her characters’ relative passivity with the knife edge of evil within or, more often, outside them.

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FOREIGN BODIES By Cynthia Ozick

This nimble, entertaining homage to Henry James’s late work “The Ambassadors,” in which an American heads to Paris to retrieve a wayward son, brilliantly upends the theme, meaning and stylistic manner of its revered precursor.

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FREEDOM By Jonathan Franzen

Like Franzen’s previous novel, “The Corrections,” this is a masterly portrait of a nuclear family in turmoil, with an intricately ordered narrative and a majestic sweep that seems to gather up every fresh datum of our shared millennial life.

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