Brian's Favorite Books

The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (Hardcover)

$27.95

ISBN-13: 9781594488429
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Published: Riverhead Hardcover, 3/2012

Interested in just precisely how Putin's Russia is quickly regressing back to the Soviet Union of yesteryear, replete with all the requisite cronyism, corruption, racketeering and journalistic/rival intimidation that that entails? Why can't you protest without first getting a permit in Moscow? Why do so many of Putin's biggest detractors wind up dead? How did a KGB thug rise the ranks to become Russia's most powerful person? The brilliantly well-spoken Russian journalist Masha Gessen answers all of these questions and more! A must-read for Russophiles citywide!

You Think That's Bad (Paperback)

By Jim Shepard

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9780307742148
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Published: Vintage, 3/2012

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Jim Shepard is truly one of the most adept practitioners of the short story working in English today. Yeah, he's that good. His is a voice capable of a seamless shifting through any period in time, through the mouth of any character, real or imaginary, be it a love that dare not speak its name aboard the doomed Hindenburg all the way up to a 15th century French accessory to a series of murders, those on familiar terms with that indescribably pleasurable feeling that comes with discovering and reading a writer of this caliber would do well to pick this one up. A master of the form.

Men in Space (Paperback)

By Tom Mccarthy

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9780307388223
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Published: Vintage, 2/2012

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McCarthy's men and the spaces they each respectively inhabit are many and multifarious. Set (for the most part) in a post-Velvet revolution Prague that finds itself emerging from the Soviet shadow and testing its every new boundary (both real and imagined), this one (mostly) follows a group of dissolute Bohemians, near-deaf police surveillance experts and expats adrift, all in some way connected to a stolen Bulgarian icon painting which is slowly making its way to western Europe. This is one of the most massively gifted voices to come out of the UK is quite some time.

The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories (Hardcover)

By Don DeLillo

$24.00

ISBN-13: 9781451655841
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Published: Scribner, 11/2011

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I'm hard-pressed to identify a (living) American writer of equal stature. DeLillo's style speaks to readers across a broad spectrum of literary interests. The aesthete seeking lyrical, elegant prose; the philosopher in search of the subtext, or your overly observant writer friend who suffuses everything with meaning it may or may not necessarily have, all will find their learned appetites sufficiently sated. If you're a regular reader of contemporary American literature and have yet to experience DeLillo, something has gone terribly wrong!