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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hoffert, Barbara

Titel

TITLES TO WATCH 2021

Ist Teil von

• Library Journal, 2021-01, Vol.146 (1), p.22

Ort / Verlag

New York: Library Journals, LLC

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In Archivist author Martha Cooley's Buy Me Love (Red Hen, Jun.), Ellen Portinari befriends gym folks and a Brooklyn street artist while deciding whether to cash in her winning lottery ticket. [...]Ivorian author Véronique Tadjo's In the Company of Men (Other, Feb.) uses multiple voices to show how Ebola affected communities in West Africa in the mid-2010s. LOVE & BREAKUP An Artificial Friend for sale in a store, perky Klara contemplates the meaning of love in Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun (Knopf, Mar.), while Elizabeth Strout's Oh William! (Random, Sept.) explores the ties that bind Lucy Barton and her first husband, William. Alice Elliot Dark's Fellowship Point (S. & S., Fall) chronicles a popular children's book author, diagnosed with cancer at 80, who resists the call to write a memoir. #METOO MOMENTS In Rachel Cusk's Second Place (Farrar, May), tensions in male/female interactions are highlighted when a woman invites a distinguished male artist to visit her remote coastal home.