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Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk - Review

Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
Palahniuk’s audacious ninth novel tells the story of Cassie Wright, an aging porn queen who intends to put an exclamation point on her career by having sex with 600 men in one day on film. The story begins with Mr. 600—the pornosaur who introduced Cassie to the business—as he describes the other [...]

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The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold - Review

The Almost Moon: A Novel by Alice Sebold
Desperate to escape the ‘crying, barking and biting’ of her mentally ill octogenarian mother, Helen Knightly fulfils a lifelong dream: she murders her. Alice Sebold’s follow-up to The Lovely Bones depicts a lonely, suburban divorcee as she wrestles with five decades of painful memories and the 24-hour aftermath [...]

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The Great Fortune by Olivia Manning - Review

THE GREAT FORTUNE by Olivia Manning
This is book one of Manning’s highly acclaimed and often dramatised Fortunes of War trilogy, which follows the fortunes of Guy and Harriet Pringle’s marriage as they flee from Bucharest to Athens to Alexandria ahead of the Nazis.
Review: The Great Fortune by Olivia Manning | Books | The Guardian.

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