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| New in Paperback |
Summer means it's time to pick up a few new paperbacks.
They pack well, as they can fit into the corner of an overstuffed
suitcase --- and if the suntan lotion drips or a cool summer drink
sloshes onto them, it's not quite the same as mucking up an expensive
hardcover. We also think that it is easier to shake sand from between
the pages of a paperback than a hardcover. And remember, a long blade
of grass can always be turned into a pretty good bookmark.
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| If you have a new in paperback title (published in the past two months) that
you'd like to add to this list, write
Sarah@bookreporter.com.
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ASLEEP
by Banana Yoshimoto
July 2001
Each of these three novellas from "a sure and lyrical
writer" (The New Yorker) features a young woman
bewitched into a spiritual sleep.
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GIG:Americans Talk About Their Jobs
by John Bowe, Marisa Bowe and Sabin Streeter (editors)
August 2001
From a Wal-Mart greeter to a funeral director to an
advertising executive, 120 brief first-person narratives
offer an illuminating look at how other people earn
a living.
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HOT SPRINGS
by Stephen Hunter
Hot Springs, Arkansas, is a hotbed of corruption, and in the summer
of 1946, ex-Marine Sergeant Earl Swagger, haunted by memories of fighting
he barely survived in Iwo Jima, faces off with gangster Owney Maddox.
"Top-notch entertainment." —The Wall Street Journal
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HUNTS IN DREAMS
by Tom Drury
July 2001
Over the course of a long weekend, the four members of the Drury family
embark --- sometimes together, sometimes independently --- on a journey
of self-awareness in "a gorgeous, inexplicably sad and funny novel
about screw-ups trying to do better" (Salon).
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THE YEAR OF JUBILO: A Novel of the Civil War
by Howard Bahr
After fighting for the Confederacy during the Civil
War, former literature professor Gawain Harper returns
home to Cumberland, Mississippi, looking to rebuild
his life.
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ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY
by David Sedaris
June 2001
Whether talking about his childhood in North Carolina,
guitar lessons taught by a midget, the Easter bunny,
or life in New York and Paris, David Sedaris' distinctly
skewed perspective makes for a hilarious autobiography.
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MY GOODNESS: A Cynic's Short-Lived Search for Sainthood
by Joe Queenan
July 2001
Acid-tongued journalist Joe Queenan embarked on a search for goodness
with hilarious results in a book The New York Times Book Review
called "the year's most sinfully rewarding guilty pleasure."
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PLOWING THE DARK
by Richard Powers
August 2001
In this novel that explores the realm of cyber-invention, "Powers
writes movingly about computers, art, love, loneliness, friendship.
He has an impressive, encompassing intellect…masterful." —Chicago
Tribune
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SWIMMING SWEET ARROW
by Maureen Gibbon
August 2001
In this story of friendship, passion, and survival,
best friends Vangie and June find that after graduating
high school things begin to shift in ways neither
ever imagined…and Vangie wonders how they will survive
the lives they've chosen.
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WHITE TEETH
by Zadie Smith
June 2001
Chronicling the experiences of two eccentric multiracial
families, this "debut novel is, like the London it
portrays, a restless hybrid of voices, tones and textures....
Smith holds it all together with a raucous energy
and confidence." -The New York Times Book Review
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