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… is told from the perspective of a different animal that has died during the violence. The book follows her highly … author provides a comprehensive list of her sources on her website.)  As was true for Doctorow and Ragtime, Dovey isn’t … MacSweeney. In a slim novel, Luiselli packs in the points of view, forms, references, and visuals; at times it …

… That a poor girl who had kept geese in the fields should come to marry the greatest king in the world sounds like a … prison, martyred her virtuous but narrow-minded mother, and died Governor of Martinique in 1647. After her return to … down to her. Rival ladies flattered her. Ministers and generals deferred to her opinion. It seemed at times as if the …

… a trance of needles and thread, the cloth spread out like medieval finery over their serious laps, the sky outside the …

… and sealed, steel-cold to the touch, the coffin held a soldier whose black face grinned at me from an 8 × 10 portrait. …

… of novels A Dance to the Music of Time , Anthony Powell completed one of the most ambitious undertakings of postwar … that Powell had created an almost 19th-century type audience, readers who had followed the work volume by volume … Jenkins hardly needs to raise his voice to make his points for, after all, who is there to impress? This …