Michel Faber, Author . Harcourt $14 (276p) ISBN 978-0-15-601148-8
Readers who were fascinated by Under the Skin,
Faber's cleverly grotesque social satire about human animals, will find plenty more where that came from in this beguilingly bizarre collection of 15 short stories. Faber works from a number of...
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Michel Faber, Author . Harcourt $28 (848p) ISBN 978-0-15-100692-2
Faber's bawdy, brilliant second novel tells an intricate tale of love and ambition and paints a new portrait of Victorian England and its citizens in prose crackling with insight and bravado. Using the wealthy Rackham clan as a focal point for...
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Michel Faber, Author . Harcourt $23 (232p) ISBN 978-0-15-101061-5
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THE COURAGE CONSORT
Michel Faber
. Harcourt
, $23 (240p) ISBN 0-15
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Michel Faber, Author . Harcourt $23 (246p) ISBN 978-0-15-101314-2
Scots author Faber (The Crimson Petal and the White
) practices a distinct and finally winning form of defamiliarization in these 16 short tales, creating characters with very low thresholds for overstimulation, so that the everyday, through their...
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Michel Faber, Author . Canongate $18.95 (213p) ISBN 978-1-84767-183-7
The author of The Crimson Petal and the White
sends up the publishing industry in this stillborn satire. Visiting an Iraqi museum in the present-day, Aramaic scholar Theo Grieppenkerl discovers nine preserved parchment scrolls. After smuggling the...
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Michel Faber. Random/Hogarth, $28 (512p) ISBN 978-0-553-41884-2
Faber’s (The Crimson Petal and the White) novel could at first be mistaken for another period piece, as a Christian missionary named Peter bids farewell to his devoted wife, Beatrice, and departs on a mission in foreign lands. Only gradually does...
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Michel Faber, Author, Robert Dreesen, Editor Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-15-100626-7
A strange woman named Isserley roams the Scottish Highlands in search of juicy, well-muscled hitchhikers in Faber's menacing but unfulfilling debut novel (after Some Rain Must Fall, a collection of short stories). The opening chapters are suffused...
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Michel Faber. Hanover Square, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-335-91674-7
Faber’s entertaining, fantastical romp (after The Book of Strange New Things) concerns the sudden disappearance of the letter D. Dicky Bentley, 13, doesn’t have memories of her early childhood before her adoption, but knows she hails from Somaliland
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