All the Finest Girls (29 page)

Art and Psychoanalysis

   by Laurie Schneider Adams

The Care of Pictures

   by George Leslie

The Comedians

   by Graham Greene

The Heart of the Matter

   by Graham Greene

Martha and Ethel

   A documentary directed by Jyll Johnstone

Dale Loves Sophie to Death

by Robb Forman Dew

Winner of the National Book Award

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New Republic

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Dale Loves Sophie to Death
are quiet but rich, and prove once again that in fiction there are no automatically compelling subjects. There are only compelling writers.”

— Katha Pollitt,
New York Times Book Review

This Body
by Laurel Doud

“Lots of fun. … Every woman has had the fantasy of waking up in a younger, skinnier body. But what if you had to die first? And what if the body you came to one year after your death belonged to a freshly OD’d junkie?”

— Cindy Bagwell,
Dallas Morning News

“Riveting. …
This Body
proves equally engrossing for the senses, soul, and mind.”

— Megan Harlan,
Entertainment Weekly

Swimming Sweet Arrow
by Maureen Gibbon

“Both satisfying and unexpected. … The accomplishment of
Swimming Sweet Arrow
is in the voice — an affecting blend of innocence and experience.”

— Maile Meloy,
New York Times Book Review

“A moving first novel — Vangie could be the blunt-spoken daughter of a Raymond Carver character. The graphic sex is neither porn nor arty erotica: it’s anthropology with a heart.”

— David Gates,
Newsweek

Kinship Theory
by Hester Kaplan

“An abundant, fully realized, and generous novel. … Kaplan is superb at exploring the emotional webs that encircle us.”

— Sam Coale,
Providence Journal

“Engrossing. … Kaplan uses an acute sense of the jagged borders of loss to take her reader to the gut-wrenching edge, not of marriage, but of motherhood.”

— Susannah Ketchum,
Boston Globe

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The Gospel of Judas
by Simon Mawer

“A superior novel. … A noteworthy achievement. … An intellectual thriller of uncommon substance.”

—Chauncey Mabe,
Boston Globe

“Mawer’s prose is admirably lyrical, playful, and precise. His greatest strength, however, is in crafting probing, puzzlelike narratives that yield compelling dramas of the mind and heart.”

—Michael Upchurch,
Atlantic Monthly

Demonology
by Rick Moody

“Bold and thrilling. … Accomplished, fearless short stories that examine the exchange of energy between language and loss. … Moody does nothing in half measures. He places us under arrest before he reads us our rights. …
Demonology
rants and raves and roars.”

—Walter Kirn,
New York Times Book Review

“By turns terrifying and wickedly funny. … A delightfully quirky collection.”

—Michael Shelden,
Baltimore Sun

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The Last Time They Met
by Anita Shreve

“A flat-out, can’t-put-it-down page-turner. … A riveting story that teases and confounds as it moves back in time from the end to the start of a love affair.”

— Shelby Hearon,
Chicago Tribune

“Dazzling. … A hypnotic novel. … The revelatory ending should have book groups arguing into the night.”

— Robert Allen Papinchak,
USA Today

These Granite Islands
by Sarah Stonich

“A lovely novel. … Only as Isobel lies dying does she begin to understand that her own placid life had its own drama and daring — its own hot center.”

— Barbara Fisher,
Boston Globe

“These Granite Islands
nicely captures the effect that the competing pulls of marriage, friendship, and dreams can have on an individual. Lyrical writing transports the reader in a fascinating narrative.”

— Robin Vidimos,
Denver Post

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This vibrant and emotionally searinǵ novel charts the intersection of two lives, two worlds, as it tells the story of a fierce and untamable younǵ ǵirl, ǵrowinǵ up “privileǵed” in a New England household darkened by her parents’ epically unhappy marriaǵe, and the Caribbean nanny who has left her own family a thousand miles behind to live amonǵ stranǵers.
All the Finest Girls
moves and surprises with its tale of findinǵ a sense of belonǵinǵ in an unexpected place.

“Hauntinǵ. … A finely woven, almost delicate tapestry. … Styron’s finest achievement is her ability to ǵlide seamlessly between the dialect of St. Clair and the cultured lanǵuaǵe of Connecticut as she pieces toǵether the fraǵments of each of these women’s lives.”

—Amy Ephron,
Los Anǵeles Times

“Perfect observations leap off the paǵe. … The deftness of the local color and the hauntinǵ details of never-to-be-outǵrown pain are promises of ǵood thinǵs to come for Alexandra Styron.”

— Rosellen Brown,
New Leader

“Ambitious, movinǵ, even fearless. … An impressive, hiǵhly charǵed novel about a virtually taboo subject — nannyinǵ — displayinǵ keen insiǵht into the burdens of inheritance in its many forms: money, love, creative temperament.”

— Benjamin Anastas,
New York Observer

Alexandra Styron holds on M.F.A. in creative writinǵ from Columbia University.
All the Finest Girls
is her first book.

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Cover photoǵraph by Karen Beard/Photonica
Author photoǵraph by Nina Bramhall
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