The Dog
Publishers Weekly ★ 06/09/2014 As he did brilliantly in Netherland, O’Neill, in his latest, creates a character who is alienated from his home and social class, and who feels dangerously vulnerable in a country in which he lives a luxurious but precarious existence. The unnamed narrator (we do learn that his given name begins with […]
Snapper
“In those awkward, drifting, post-college years, when many young men find themselves working behind a counter, Nathan Lochmueller learns he has a gift for tracking songbirds. . . . Told with precise and memorable prose in beautifully rendered, time-shifted vignettes, Snapper richly evokes the emotions of coming to adulthood. Nathan’s fascination with the physical world […]
The O'Briens
“Powerful . . . This is a family possessed of a ‘strange, rough beauty,’ as [a] priest describes them, and it’s this dichotomy that keeps them struggling internally . . . Moments of grace and romance are rocked by cruel words and violence in this epic, a piece of rough beauty itself.†—Publishers Weekly (starred)
Mr G : a Novel About the Creation
Publishers Weekly: Physicist and author Lightman (Einstein’s Dreams) offers another rumination in the form of a touching, imaginative rendition of God’s creation of the universe. Bored with the Void, his bickersome Aunt Penelope and tenderhearted Uncle Deva his only companions through Nothingness, the genius Nephew casts about in his infinite imagination for change, form, and […]