The Sleeper of the Fall?
We suggested earlier that The Good Thief, which is on order in small quantities in most libraries, is a title to watch.
Today’s New York Times seems to bear that out. Janet Maslin gives it a very strong review, calling it “darkly transporting.” She relates it to The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, saying that in both books “the reader can find plain-spoken fiction full of traditional virtues: strong plotting, pure lucidity, visceral momentum and a total absence of writerly mannerisms.”
Good Thief
Hannah Tinti
- Hardcover: $26; 336 pages
- Publisher: The Dial Press (August 26, 2008)
- ISBN-10: 0385337450
- ISBN-13: 978-0385337458