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...these days, but you have to hand it to them: they're still our filthiest medium, God bless 'em. You can get away with things on paper that you could never sing about or show onscreen. Michel Faber's colossal, kaleidoscopic new novel, The Crimson Petal and the White (Harcourt, 838 pages), tells the story of a prostitute in Victorian England, and if it's ever filmed, it'll be rated around an NC-45. But it also hints that reading and sex have a lot in common: both are a uniquely intimate exchange of secrets and pleasures, and both...
...pulls out all the stops for "The Crimson Petal and the White" by Michael Faber (Harcourt; September), giving it a starred, boxed review. "Faber's bawdy, brilliant second novel tells an intricate tale of love and ambition and paints a new portrait of Victorian England and its citizens in prose crackling with insight and bravado. Using the wealthy Rackham clan as a focal point for his sprawling, gorgeous epic, Faber, like Dickens or Hardy, explores an era's secrets and social hypocrisy...A marvelous story of erotic love, sin, familial conflicts and class prejudice, this is a deeply entertaining masterwork...
...comes confirmation that politics was perhaps not the line of work for which Kerrey was best suited. He could never have been as good a President as he is a writer. Kerrey's memoir of his early life, When I Was a Young Man (Harcourt; 270 pages), covers the period from his birth in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1943 to his return there at the end of 1969. He came home with a prosthesis on his right leg, which had been shattered in a fire fight in Vietnam. When I Was a Young Man is an astonishing, wonderful book...
...Clear," a new novel by former TIME senior writer Steve Lopez, will be published this month by Harcourt...
Here Be Monsters is the result of a collaboration between Ed Harcourt, who wrote all the songs, and Tim Holmes, producer of Mercury Rev. The producer’s influence shows immediately, in the richly textured sonic language, with lush string orchestrations and jazzy saxophone accompaniments. The opening song is typical, in this respect, of the whole album. It begins softly, with the strumming of an acoustic guitar and Harcourt’s velvety voice. As the song progresses, the instrumentation fills out, blossoming at the chorus in a climax of strings and guitar accompaniment reminiscent of Radiohead?...