Simon & Schuster
Three recent début novels employ the genre of the Bildungsroman to explore the complexities of female experience in the recent historical past. Anna Goldsworthy, widely known and admired as a memoirist, essayist, and musician, has now added a novel, Melting Moments (Black Inc., $29.99 pb, 240 pp), to her list of achievements.
... (read more)The plethora of crime stories is such that, in order to succeed, they must either follow a well-trodden narrative path and do so extremely well, or run with a high concept and hope for the best. Having the word ‘girl’ in the title doesn’t hurt. Readers are familiar with genre tropes ...
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Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton & HRC by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes
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Wilderness: The writer’s landscape, volume I by Suzanne Falkiner
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