Play It as It Lays

A woman attempts to escape from ennui by taking to the freeway in this blistering novel by Joan Didion.

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Orfeo

An elderly composer becomes a fugitive suspected of bioterrorism in this lively novel by Richard Powers.

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The Sea

An ageing narrator revisits a coastal village from his childhood in this melancholic novel by John Banville.

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