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The conflict plays out, among many other places, in the novel's structure, which alternates between two parallel stories that draw closer together as the book progresses.

Rebel Ascendant Sam Sacks 2011

We read in the novel's final pages the narrator's bleak summation: Men can be more vicious than beasts of prey if they're put in the extreme situation of war.

And Then Came Savagery Alexander Theroux 2011

The novel's role is evident not only in such well-known books as Scott's "Ivanhoe" whose Jewish heroine far outshines her Christian rival and George Eliot's great exploration of Judaism, "Daniel Deronda."

Oh, to Be In England Steven Amarnick 2011

But it can also seem stubbornly vague, as many of the novel's most nagging questions are left unanswered.

Rebel Ascendant Sam Sacks 2011

The defining difference between the two schools, writes the novel's narrator, is parents: At the good school, The parents were too American, too aware of the rights granted them by their Constitution to accept injustices meekly.

The Latest Crime Wave: Sending Your Child to a Better School Micheal Flaherty 2011

That generation, in the novel's portrayal, asserted its independence from Japanese society by cleaving to Western pop: rock 'n' roll, jazz, the Beats.

Rebel Ascendant Sam Sacks 2011

The scene in which Jess persuades the owner to part with the books is the novel's strongest: a swift, persuasive portrayal of how a smart, charming person can use a combination of intelligence and intuition to make someone do what she wants, regardless of whether it's in that person's best interests.

The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman – review 2011

"The American public had had a bellyful," recounts Gilbert "Gent" Gentilhomme, the novel's soldier-narrator.

Futuristic Soldiers of Fortune Tom Nolan 2011

For among the novel's astute observations is the curious fact that, at least for the privileged, one perk of contemporary life is a certain fluidity about which century one can live in, from moment to moment.

The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman – review 2011

It well fits the misfits who occupy the novel's own cat's table—as far as possible from the captain's own.

A Floating World Martin Rubin 2011