Sea of Hooks by Lindsay Hill
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
THIS WEEK, Elissa Schappell and Kyle McCarthy consider the influence of Alice Munro in light of her Nobel Prize, and we review two puzzling novels that arrived this fall: J.M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus and Lindsay Hill's Sea of Hooks.
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Honoring 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner Alice Munro
Roger Bellin on JM Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus
Diane Mehta on Lindsay Hill's Sea of Hooks
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LARB Honors 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner Alice Munro
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