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...sobbing rage that powered The Lovely Bones, that left it with ragged edges, that made it howl and that made it great--and that left readers, reviewers and editors alike blinking back shocked tears, shaking our heads and wondering, How the hell did she do that? --By Lev Grossman...
...occasionally derring-don't), his airplane groaning and shuddering around him with the strain, the book soars. "Flight is a miracle that has been domesticated into triviality," he writes. "But out along its sharp edges...in those places where flying still draws blood, the chance for miracles remains." --By Lev Grossman...
...that intimacy. Near the end of Mortals Ray ruefully reflects, "He had been an actor in a different play than the one he had thought he was in." What he learns is that we all have secret identities, and sometimes we keep that secret even from ourselves. --By Lev Grossman...
...dryness (she's a lecturer in women's studies at Mount Holyoke), but the pathos of the stories she tells wins through. Mercury 13 is a revealing snapshot of a country simultaneously caught up in the romance of the future and snarled in the prejudice of the past. --By Lev Grossman...
...running out of material? "Catastrophes seem to find me," he says. "I grew up in a little town in nowhere, Massachusetts, and one day these men rolled up in a black van and started casting a Tang commercial..." It should be a while before he runs dry. --By Lev Grossman...