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Sweet Tooth

July 29, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: It’s 1972 and the Cold War is in full swing. England is still reeling from the discovery of the Cambridge 5 almost twenty years earlier. New plans are put in place by MI5 to encourage artists to make pro-Western materials – and new recruit Serena Frome is tapped to run author Tom Haley. But as she gets closer to Haley, she must keep truth and lie separate even as the world pushes her to come clean… The […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: 1970s, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Cold War, England, Fiction, Ian McEwan, Literature, Metafiction, Reviews, Spy, Sweet Tooth, The Great Vacation of 2016, Writing

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Multiple Choice

July 27, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Modeled on the Chilean Academic Aptitude Test, readers are instructed to take a multiple choice test covering reading comprehension, vocabulary, sentence structure, and more. The Review: I have the feeling that certain readers will find this book overly gimmicky or infuriating as hell. It is, of course, exactly what it sets out to be: a novel (or, well, a piece of literature) constructed in the form of a classic Scantron multiple choice aptitude test. There is no moment where the […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Alejandro Zambra, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Exam, Experimental, Experimental Fiction, Fiction, Fiction in Translation, Literature, Literature in Translation, Megan McDowell, Multiple Choice, Multiple Choice Exam, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Reviews, Test, The Great Vacation of 2016, Translation

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