Request for Reviews

[The Great Quail]

Hello!

As some of you know, every once in a while I try to solicit some volunteers
to review current titles for The Modern Word. There are a few relatively
recent books I would be happy to have reviewed over the next few months. If
anyone here would like to write an informed review that takes into account
the more experimental, playful, or avant-garde nature of these works, I
would be most delighted indeed. Please contact me off-list and we can set
something up. As The Modern Word is essentially run by semi-demented
volunteers, I can offer no financial compensation; but you will of course be
credited, and our visitor statistics have been pretty generous lately --
160,000 monthly visitors for 5.5 million hits with an average stickiness of
10 minutes; so you will be read.

Please consider it!

Fiction:

Byatt, A.S. "A Whistling Woman." Knopf.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375415343/thelibyrinth

Coover, Robert. "The Adventures of Lucky Pierre: Directors' Cut." Grove.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802117244/thelibyrinth

Dick, Philip K. "The Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick." Pantheon.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375421513/thelibyrinth

Foer, Jonathan. "Everything is Illuminated." Houghton Mifflin.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0618173870/thelibyrinth

Flanagan, Richard.  "Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish." Grove.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802117112/thelibyrinth

Kitchen, Judith.  "The House on Eccles Road." Graywolf Press.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/155597368X/thelibyrinth

Kundera, Milos. "Ignorance." Harper Collins.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060002093/thelibyrinth

Lethem, Jonathan. "This Shape We're In," McSweeney's.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0970335520/thelibyrinth

Straub, Peter, editor. "Conjunctions:39: New Wave Fabulists." Bard College.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0941964558/thelibyrinth

Vargas Llosa, Mario. "The Feast of the Goat." Picador.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312420277/thelibyrinth

Nonfiction/Academic:

Bell-Villada, Gene H. "Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of
Solitude." Oxford University Press.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195144554/thelibyrinth

Bouchard, Norman. "Umberto Eco's Alternative." Peter Lang Publishing.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0820437891/thelibyrinth

Franco, Jean. "The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City." Harvard
University Press.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674008421/thelibyrinth

Gaddis, William. "Agape Agape." Viking.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0670031313/thelibyrinth

Mattessich, Stefan. "Lines of Flight: Discursive Time and Countercultural
Desire in the Work of Thomas Pynchon." Duke University Press.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0822329948/thelibyrinth

Pattie, David. "The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett." Routledge.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/041520254X/thelibyrinth

Thank you,

--Quail

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The Great Quail, Keeper of the Libyrinth:
http://www.TheModernWord.com

Better hope deferred than none. Up to a point. Till the heart starts to
sicken. Company too up to a point. Better a sick heart than none. Till it
starts to break. So speaking of himself he concludes for the time being,
For the time being leave it at that.
     --Samuel Beckett, "Company"

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