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Daniel Alarcon's stories are one of the reasons we go to storytellers -- they present worlds we have only imagined or heard about in less truthful and poetic ways. And Mr. Alarcon, like the best storytellers, reveals to us that the world we have secreted in our hearts spins in a bigger universe with other hearts just as good and just as bad as our own. Long before you come to the poignant words,
Submitted May 7th 10 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
A gripping and tense political fable by one of the most exciting and ambitious writers to emerge in recent years.
Submitted May 5th 10 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
A desperate and powerful vision of love.
Submitted May 3rd 10 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
A beautifully written, lyrical novel. This is the kind of book you inhale in one breath and can't forget afterward.
Submitted Dec 9th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
They leave one in no doubt that here is a master...he leaves an ineffaceable impression of magic, mystery and mastery.
Submitted Oct 17th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
Reader beware: each of the slim tales in War by Candlelight starts off innocently enough, but invariably explodes with the fatal power of a grenade or the sudden, magnificent blossoming of a flower. Daniel Alarcan is a storyteller whose wisdom outpaces his youth, and whose talent is already ablaze.
Submitted Oct 17th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
Blake brings 1930s bank robbers and their molls to life. I especially like his easy style.
Submitted Jul 25th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
At last - a new and brilliantly original novel from India.
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Submitted Jul 22nd 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
Women's death row as you have never seen it; hauntingly rich, wise and sharply etched. In prison parlace: a bonaroo first novel!
Submitted Jul 22nd 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments
