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The Pesthouse 71by Jim Crace Whitbread-winner Crace ("Quarantine") imagines a future post-apocalyptic America in which society has collapsed and its inhabitants scratch out a meager living by any primitive means necessary. The only reasonable hope for survival is a difficult trip east through the environmentally devastated land and passage by ship to Europe. More New Fiction Reviews: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon 75 The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien 67 A Far Country by Daniel Mason 63 Remainder by Tom McCarthy 79 You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem 63 Heyday by Kurt Andersen 66 Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris 82 Christine Falls by Benjamin Black 80 Finn by Jon Clinch 77 Exit A by Anthony Swofford 40 In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar 89 Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman 66 Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster 49 Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley 67

Teenage 62by Jon Savage Savage, acclaimed historian of the English punk movement ("England's Dreaming"), traces the roots of the teenager as an icon. Delving into film, music, literature, diaries, fashion, and art, Savage documents youth culture's development as a commodity and an industry from the turn of the last century through 1945. More New Nonfiction Reviews: Einstein by Walter Isaacson 83 Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee 85 Alexis de Tocqueville by Hugh Brogan 85 A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah 84 The Mistress's Daughter by A. M. Homes 58 How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman 79 Wish I Could Be There by Allen Shawn 80 US Guys by Charlie LeDuff 60 Nixon and Mao by Margaret MacMillan 77 The Bill from My Father by Bernard Cooper 82 The Bloodless Revolution by Tristram Stuart 75 Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali 77 The Human Touch by Michael Frayn 75 The Devil's Guide to Hollywood by Joe Eszterhas 41

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