February 14, 2018
 February 14, 2018 This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that releases this winter. Read more about it, and enter our Winter Reading Contest by Thursday, February 15th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of A PERFECT UNIVERSE: Ten Stories by Scott O'Connor, which is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!  Today's Featured Book and Contest:  Scott O’Connor’s novels have been hailed as “astonishing” (Library Journal), and “so insistently stirring, you want to lean in close to catch every word” (The New York Times Book Review). Now, from the author of UNTOUCHABLE and HALF WORLD comes A PERFECT UNIVERSE, a piercingly emotional cycle of stories in the tradition of Jennifer Egan’s A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD and Annie Proulx’s CLOSE RANGE. Welcome to the often-overlooked corners of sun-bleached Los Angeles, where a teenaged bicycle thief searches for a kidnapped boy, a young musician emerges as the lone survivor of a building collapse, and an aging actor faces the erasure of his past. There, far from the Hollywood spotlight, we also meet two sisters locked in a destructive cycle of memory and illness, coffee-shop regulars whose lives are torn apart by a stunning moment of violence, and the desperate, fraudulent writer whose fictions connect these unforgettable characters in subtle and surprising ways. Sharply observed, exhilaratingly paced and beautifully written, A PERFECT UNIVERSE is a masterful exploration of growing up and growing old, loss and longing, identity and deception, and the search for redemption, humanity and grace. Click here to enter the contest by 11:59am ET This is a special newsletter for our Winter Reading Contests, which will mail on select days through February 22nd. This newsletter is separate from our weekly Bookreporter.com newsletter, which mails every Friday. You can subscribe to that newsletter here. Please visit the other websites in TheBookReportNetwork.com: 20SomethingReads.com, ReadingGroupGuides.com, GraphicNovelReporter.com, Teenreads.com, Kidsreads.com and AuthorsOnTheWeb.com. |
