Favorite fiction of the year so far and request for recommendations.

[Jochen Stremmel]

Ellmann's book and Rooney's novels play in different leagues, seen from
here..

Am So., 10. Okt. 2021 um 03:13 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
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> And *Ducks, Newburyport* is a wonderful, wonderful novel.
>
> On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 8:26 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
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> >  I just recently went on a binge of stories and novels from Ursula
> > Leguin’s extensive Hainish Sci-Fi/galactic anthropology works. What a
> > pleasure. There is a collection by Library of America called Hainish
> Novels
> > & Stories Volume 2, which I supplemented with The Dispossessed I was
> wowed
> > to the core by her ability to imagine credible human cultures of
> tremendous
> > diversity and an equal diversity of cultural interactions. Few give more
> > thought to the worlds created while bringing us into a complexity of
> inner
> > life and outer experience we easily recognize as our own human dilemmas
> and
> > pleasures.  I felt my imagination being opened , challenged, expanded and
> > cleansed and wished I could have thanked her.
> >   There is a quote on the back of the book by Zadie Smith saying” Genre
> > cannot contain Ursula Leguin: she is a genre in herself."
> >
> > Looking around for some contemporary reading. Suggestions? Doerr’s Cuckoo
> > Land? Whitehead's  Harlem Shuffle?  So much new work, so little to go on.
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