The two protagonists of debut novelist Powers's compelling tale of urban despair are by turns hopeless, deluded and self-destructive, but their misguided stumblings are transformed by the charged prose and headlong pace of Power's skillful...
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Nani Power, Author . Grove $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1720-5
Antihero C.R. Ash's scrambled vision of the world might be due to bourbon; on the other hand, it might be due to Power's addiction to a sort of Faulknerian stream-of-consciousness style. In any case, C.R., the aging neonatal specialist at...
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Nani Power, Author . Counterpoint $25 (237p) ISBN 978-1-58243-303-5
Love is in the air at the Royale, a Washington, D.C., hotel inhabited by a motley collection of emotionally wounded and desperately lonely folk in this third novel by Powers (The Good Remains
; Crawling at Night
). Maintenance man Jedra Abdullah...
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Nani Power, Author Free Press $23 (205p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5606-0
This rambling memoir takes readers from a Virginia plantation to punk-era New York City, with stops in the Bahamas, Brazil, Japan and other alluring destinations. Power, a novelist and foodie, takes a haphazard approach, with seemingly no organizing
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