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...stunning debut," giving the book a starred review: "Like its intriguing main characters, this novel is many things at once - it's a campy, knowing take on the themes that made 'The Secret History' and 'Prep' such massive bestsellers, a wry send up of most of the Western canon and, most importantly, a sincere and uniquely twisted look at love, coming of age and identity." Pessl's novel is an unorthodox murder mystery, told in the voice of its erudite heroine...
...players on this stocker-team juggernaut? Nintendo, whose soccer games sell well as "youngsters get excited" by the Cup; Holcim, a Swiss building-materials company, because the Cup "always involves major infrastructure" additions; Heineken, the Dutch brewer, and Scottish & New Castle, a British pub operator (try to guess why); Canon, the Japanese imaging company, because "worldwide media attention" means fans will want to record the event; Fuji Photo, a Japanese film company (see Canon); Coca-Cola, one of the main sponsors; Tesco, a British takeaway-food retailer; InterContinental Hotels; Puma, the German sports-shoe company, because of "higher-than-average...
...clever lawyers. Didn’t I hear that Franz Ferdinand chord progression somewhere before? I certainly did, and not just because I’m a disillusioned Gang of Four fan. By definition, culture is collaborative. Some of the richest masterpieces of the Western literary canon are thoroughly infused with Biblical and mythological language. If Homer had better legal representation, would James Joyce’s Ulysses have ever been published? Intertextuality isn’t just a word that literature majors throw around at their swank cocktail parties—it’s a fundamental attribute...
...RUTH CANON Dallas...
...used to joke in the late 1990s that Vietnam never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity," says Fred Burke, managing partner of the U.S. law firm Baker & McKenzie. "I hope it won't be true this time." Workers like Nhan, who is going to work in the new Canon factory, are vowing to do their bit. "People in the north are just as hard-working as [those in] the south," she insists. "Now that foreign investors have come, maybe soon the north will be just as rich." If Nhan's wish comes true, the future will be brighter...