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Strange to think of his voice still flying through the air, already a country away, growing weaker every mile.
Anthony Doerr • All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
chapters 1 through 4 construct a detailed portrait of what life might be like within just ten or twenty years.
Abrahm Lustgarten • On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
Here was his father’s parting gift: a galaxy of human lives hurtling toward his curiosity. From a distance they faded into uniformity, but they were moving, each propelled by a singular force that was inexhaustible. The collective. He was feeling the collective without any machinery at all. And its stories, infinite and particular, would be his to
... See moreJennifer Egan • The Candy House: A Novel
them all.” We fell silent for a moment.
Kazuo Ishiguro • A Pale View of Hills (Vintage International)
he was who I wanted to be when I grew up. He’s one of the great nonfiction writers of our time, a genius of reportage and the profile, someone who could take any curious whim and turn it into a compelling book.
Other than a few collapsed chimneys, there wasn’t a lot of damage that he could see.