Lisa Guidarini

Lisa Guidarini is Librarian Advisor at Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. She is also a writer, editor, and a reviewer for such publications as Library Journal and Booklist. She is contracted with the Chicago Tribune Media Group.

Book Reviews by Lisa Guidarini

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Filthy Animals is a bravura performance, an emphatic statement of literary power from a writer whose first novel was Booker shortlisted.”

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“As impressive for empathetic portraits of individual women as its ambitious scope, The Barbizon should be an essential text on the topic of women’s studies.”

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“Eric Weiner’s The Socrates Express presents universal concepts in an immediately accessible way, reminding us that, in an increasingly frenetic world, there is no more important l

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“A professor of English at Rutgers with a specialty in the history of the book, Leah Price has encyclopedic knowledge.

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“The writing is brilliant, building from a deceptively plain beginning few paragraphs to sophisticated prose that leaps off the page.”

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“The Orphan of the Salt Winds is a gothic novel both because of its sinister setting—an old, remote house filled with secrets and surrounded by danger—and a heavy

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“educates and moves, deftly juggling fact and fiction.”

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Irish novelist Edna O’Brien does not shy away from controversial issues.

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Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe brings the novelist career of his literary alter-ego, Kogito Choko, to a close with the publication of his new novel, the most recent in the series, Death by Water

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“. . . outrageously wonderful. . . . a love song to literature, a joy.”