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Fragmented revelations
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[Financial Times] - Patrick Flanery's fascinating debut centres on a series of interviews between Clare Wald, a Nadine Gordimer-like South African novelist, and Sam Leroux, her official biographer. Sam initially finds his subject to be frosty and irascible, but eventually
PW Picks: Week of April 9, 2012
www.publishersweekly.com
[Publishers Weekly] titles for writers, foodies, and the dying; esoteric nonfiction from Terry Tempest Williams; and the usual lineup of thrillers and mysteries, this week from vets SJ Parris, Phillip Kerr, and debut authors Mark Allen Smith and Patrick Flanery.
Reviews round-up
www.newstatesman.com
[New Statesman (blog)] - By New Statesman Published 03 April :27 Shedding light on apartheid-era South Africa, American writer Patrick Flanery's portrayal of apartheid-era South Africa is highly praised as "explosively powerful" by Leyla Sanai writing in the Independent
Too little interest, much too late to save debut novel
www.winnipegfreepress.com
[Winnipeg Free Press] - Absolution By Patrick Flanery Knopf Canada, 385 pages, $30 MEETING a famous writer isn't always what it's cracked up to be. Such is the case for Sam Laroux, one of the protagonists in this tepid debut novel. Set in in post-apartheid South Africa
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