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In poetry what is not said and yet gleams through the beauty of the symbol, works more powerfully on the heart than that which is expressed in words. But at a Blockbuster Video in New Jersey, four teenagers working late at the store are attacked. Y2K is expected to end in chaos: planes falling from the sky, elevators plunging to earth, world markets collapsing. “The night was expected to bring tragedy.” So begins one of the most highly-anticipated thrillers in recent years. Publisher’s Synopsisįrom the author of the breakout thriller Every Last Fear, comes Alex Finlay’s electrifying next novel The Night Shift, about a pair of small-town murders fifteen years apart―and the ties that bind them. Fifteen years later, four teenagers are attacked at an ice cream store in the same town, and again only one makes it out alive. On New Year’s Eve 1999, four teenagers and their boss are attacked in a New Jersey Blockbuster Video. 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Luckily for Ray, the last man in the world he should be interested in has distraction on his mind, and it seems like all Ray can think about is Adam Blake. (Also, the police were kinda mean, and now everyone thinks he’s a serial killer.) Ray’s just a thirtysomething graphic designer with a broken heart who doesn’t much like his life right now.Īnd he’s already having nightmares about the whole thing, come on. If this was your classic Cotswolds murder mystery (it’s not) and Ray was an amateur detective (he isn’t) then when he stumbles across something unexpected under his bedroom floor, he’d investigate the hell out of it. The industrious Castellucas farm the land outside Roseto. The village’s annual celebration of Our Lady of Mount Carmel–or “the Big Time,” as the occasion is called by the young women who compete to be the pageant’s Queen–is the centerpiece of Roseto’s colorful old-world tradition. They settled in Roseto, Pennsylvania, and re-created their former lives in their new home–down to the very last detail of who lived next door to whom. In the late 1800s, the residents of a small village in the Bari region of Italy, on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, made a mass migration to the promised land of America. This heartfelt story of the limits and power of love chronicles the remarkable lives of the Castellucas, an Italian-American family, over the course of three generations. Known and loved around the world for her sweeping Big Stone Gap trilogy and the instant New York Times bestseller Lucia, Lucia, Adriana Trigiani returns to the charm and drama of small-town life with Queens of the Big Time. Hosaka was born 1956 within the same decade as two better-known Japanese authors: Haruki Murakami ( IQ84 and Kafka on the Shore) and Ryu Murakami ( Almost Transparent Blue and Coin Locker Babies). They are, after all, an “in between” generation. None of the characters is particularly rebellious, though perhaps the more eccentric ones, like the jobless and outwardly childish Akira, think of themselves as rebels. Hosaka’s characters are like ghosts they are never quite fully fleshed out and remain incomplete – an eerie transience, in a sense trapped in the plight of their generation. They suffer from what you might call premature nostalgia, a Quixotic expectation, an empty yearning for something that doesn’t exist for their generation but was ever-present for generations before. They seem trapped in limbo, on an aimless pursuit while an older generation overtakes them. Kazuchi Hosaka’s first novel Plainsong is full of characters who read like Japanese versions of Bret Easton Ellis’s narcissistic, directionless young Americans. The In-Between Generation A Review of Kazushi Hosaka’s Novel Plainsong By Brianna Berbenuik |