They manage to make it to shore, where they collapse when Cee awakens, there’s a stranger looming over her and no trace of Wayne. This much we know: On a Delaware beach vacation, 12-year-old Cassandra Williams, nicknamed “Cee,” is swimming with her adored younger brother, Wayne, when the 7-year-old boy flounders among the waves of an incoming tide. McCarthy’s art is transcendent even as it takes no prisoners, an achievement akin only to the oeuvres of his greatest peers, Toni Morrison and Philip Roth. McCarthy toggles between books and across decades, sketching the contours of a love that dare not say its name. He showcases a carnival of tormented souls, among them a Los Alamos scientist’s grown children-Alicia Western, a suicidal mathematics prodigy, and her older brother Bobby, a former physicist turned salvage diver-as well as a vaudevillian cast of schizophrenic hallucinations, including the emcee, known as the Thalidomide Kid, potty-mouthed, with flippers instead of hands. McCarthy’s flame burns bright and clear in two new works, his first since The Road, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize and an Oprah Book Club selection: The Passenger, wondrous in its architecture, and a companion piece, Stella Maris, a minimalist, edgy novella. At 89, he’s still riffing, like a jazz virtuoso, on the American Nightmare, Faulkner’s mythmaking, and the cadences of Joyce. The cosmic struggle between desires-erotic, aspirational, spiritual-and stone-cold reality arcs through McCarthy's lengthy, Nobel-worthy career. “Every leaf speaks bliss to me,” Emily Brontë once wrote. We can always count on our poets to ground us, inspire us, and serve as conduits in the expression of joy, pain, and so many other emotions, which is why we're featuring a couple of new poetry collections on our list, namely Saeed Jones's Alive at the End of the World and Sandra Cisneros's Woman Without Shame. And OBC and Pulitzer-winning author Elizabeth Strout is back with a novel that deftly chronicles our new age of anxiety through the lens of repeat protagonist Lucy Barton, while Celeste Ng takes on uncertainty and fear in her first book since Little Fires Everywhere, in a novel that tackles hate, family separations, and book bannings. To assist in that mission, we've harvested this crop of must-reads, among them new works by emerging literary superstars such as Jonathan Escoffery and Laura Warrell (Warrell writes a mean bad boy!) as well as smashing new offerings from luminaries such as Gayl Jones (her latest protagonist keeps trying to kill her husband), Cormac McCarthy (two novels back to back that ingeniously riff on his entire oeuvre), and George Saunders, who is hands-down one of the best short-story writers of our or any era. The kids are back in school, book clubs are back in session, and it's time to head off to your local bookstore and check out their abundant new offerings. Still, there's nothing better book-nerd-wise than autumn's crop of new titles, especially when read in the company of a soft blanket, or while submerged in a hot bath. And sure, summer is the carefree season, when our brains flash vacation ! and we yearn to break out our bikinis.
#In fall book full
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#In fall book free
There are so many more autumnal titles I want to share beyond this fall reading list, but I also don’t want to overwhelm you with recommendations (so if you’re looking for more autumn book recs, feel free to message me or drop a comment below). I’ve included graphic novels, thrillers, mysteries, fantasies, and cozy middle grades on this list. You’ll find everything from cute and comforting autumn stories to spooky fall favorites. These autumn books have all the fall feels. When September rolls around, I want to read all-day, every day straight into winter’s blurry mornings. There’s something about fall that awakens, heightens, and dramatizes my reading mood. It’s no secret I love autumn, the season of color-splashed trees, knitted blankets, piping cups of tea, late night writing sessions, and thick stacks of books.
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