Broken Sleep (61 page)
Authors: Bruce Bauman
AND THE WORD WAS
by Bruce Bauman
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“Bauman’s first novel is a magnificent debut, smart and intense, but accessible and riveting … Simply a great novel.”
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Booklist
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Unmoored by her mother’s death, Katherine Carlyle abandons the set course of her life and starts out on a mysterious journey to the ends of the world.
“The strongest and most original novel I have read in a very long time … It’s a masterpiece.”
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PHILIP PULLMAN
, author of the best-selling His Dark Materials trilogy
A BRIEF STOP ON THE ROAD
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WINNER OF THE AUGUST PRIZE
A shattering memoir about a father’s attempt to survive the aftermath of Auschwitz
“A towering and wondrous work about memory and experience, exquisitely crafted, humane, generous, devastating, yet somehow also hopeful.”
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Financial Times
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by William Hackman
A social and cultural history of Los Angeles and its emerging art scene in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s
“A deeply absorbing account of the midcentury years during which Los Angeles’s once-marginal art scene transformed into a prominent locus of the avant-garde.”
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Library Journal
DIARY OF THE FALL by Michel Laub
A powerful novel centered on guilt and the complicated legacy of history that asks provocative questions about what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century.
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Kirkus Reviews
