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→紀伊國屋書店で購入 Patrick Wallingford, a handsome, vapid, lecherous television reporter is missing his left hand due to its having been bitten off by a circus lion in India. The Fourth Hand, a witty, breezy, entertaining novel, is noneth…
→紀伊國屋書店で購入 Perhaps some will call me a poetry purist, but whatever happened to simplicity and subtlety? After reading Alice Fulton’s collection of poetry entitled Cascade Experiment, I was left longing for the elegant arrangements…
→紀伊國屋書店で購入 I always seem to have trouble, to begin with, deciding what exactly books of this kind are supposed to be. Are they activity books, full of quizzes encouraging profound introspection i.e., whether you are going to hell …
→紀伊國屋書店で購入 This collection of nine stories is on the whole a lesson in eloquence, in carefully balanced story telling, and has striking moments, scattered like diamonds, of dazzling brilliance. Munro tells stories of ordinary live…
→紀伊國屋書店で購入 I must preface this review by confessing that Truman Capote is one of my favorite writers of all time. Much more than a talented wordsmith with a fascinating life, he is a glaring idol woven into the fabric of New York …
→紀伊國屋書店で購入 This startling, raw novel deals mainly with cruelty and, trendy as it seems these days, numbness and fecundity in a modern America. The protagonist is former fashion model Shannon McFarland, turned monstrous when a horr…
→紀伊國屋書店で購入 This collection features the work of eight of the most influential African American writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance period. The pieces range from Larsen’s “Quicksand,” which seems part drawing room satire …
→紀伊國屋書店で購入 「Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker」 The exquisite prose in this short story collection is no surprise considering the magazine that brings it to us. The New Yorker has been a staple of New York life…
→紀伊國屋書店で購入 「The Hours by Michael Cunningham」 A sheer delight for literati and artists alike, Cunningham’s third novel seems at first a precarious and ultimately hopeless enterprise. A contemporary author’s assertion that he can …
→紀伊國屋書店で購入 「Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham」 As an avid Michael Cunningham devotee and a modest Walt Whitman scholar, I was more than a little curious about the latest literary endeavor of the widely acclaimed author of The …
→紀伊國屋書店で購入 「The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon」 Despite its intricately effusive title, Mark's Haddon's first novel is a simple suburban whodunit. If the mystery is trivial, Haddon's achievement cert…
