One of the more enticing entries:
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Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity and A Long Way Down, offers his favourite novel of the past year or so: "Jess Walter's Citizen Vince. It's funny, dark and ingenious; it convinces you that it knows what it's talking about. And it's actually talking about quite a lot, in an attractively unassuming way. Vince has been relocated from N.Y.C. to Spokane, Wash., under a witness-protection program, and he has to work two things out. The first is why someone's trying to kill him; the second is who he should vote for in the 1980 presidential election. One problem is obviously more pressing, but they are given equal consideration. Jess Walter is, I suspect, a novelist to watch."Click here for some other writers' suggestions if you haven't already left for the bookstore.
Citizen Vince also earned a nice recommendation from Maureen Corrigan in the Washington Post
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The book won the 2006 Edgar for Best Novel.
Also see yesterday's post at "Pete Lit" about the new Nick Hornby book.
--Marshal Zeringue