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Books are dicey gifts.
If you live dangerously, the risk is worth taking.
Have a Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Kick-ass Kwanzaa, or whatever you celebrate.
Murder and mayhem ensue!
The novel moves in fast motion, with noir rhythms and atmospherics.
His voice was raspy.
His eye bags had gone from carry-on to check-in.)
As Ronnie Spector once sang, Whaa-OH, oh oh oh.
and who among us hasnt?
allow me to introduce you to Laura, the narrator of Emma Glasss second novel.
We follow dreamy Laura as she engages half-heartedly in a workplace flirtation and participates with indifference in office politics.
The prose is incantatory and prickly, slipping almost imperceptibly into the mode of a horror story.
The narrator among these benighted souls is Vanja, whose sinister job title is information assistant.
Bonus: terrificauthor photo.
Put a littleELBOW SWEATinto exploring this trove of malaphors?
Enroll in a prestigious religious academy andgo off theDEEP END?
Go back to your hotel andsit on the bedfor hours, watching Italian TV andLIGHTING THINGS ON FIRE?
The audio version of this rules.)
GUZZLEa flute of Champagne (orreadthe closest thing to it)?
Order cream-cheese-and-bananapancakeswith a side ofFRIED-BURRITO SOUP?
PerformresearchonLAB MICEwith a wry neuroscience student?
SUGGESTED PAIRING
Finished bingeingThe Queens Gambit?
Now youre primed to solve Vladimir Nabokovs chess novel,The Luzhin Defense.
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