Books by Tom Rachman
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review 1: Picked this up in a recommendation from dad, who said he needed someone else to read it so he could discuss it. The book kept me engaged for almost the whole duration, even though the jumps between time periods were sometimes jarring. I guess what puts this book squarely on the...
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review 1: This book is about a little English language newspaper established in 1953 in Rome. It's very well done. It's a series of short stories about people involved with the paper in varying ways. These stories are interwoven with the story of the newspaper itself. All this is genuinely...
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review 1: Dude really knows what's he's doing; I'm impressed by both of his books and he deserves to be mentioned in the same list as Chabon, Eggers, Safran-Foer and that lot (he may even rise above them and reach heights such as Murakami and Mitchell!). His touch with characters is subtle...
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review 1: Feel like adding this to my "Read in 2013" shelf is cheating since it is only 15 pages long, but whatever. I love Tom Rachman. I like how he builds these really sad and beautiful characters. Although this story was too short for me to really fall in love with too much about it...
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review 1: Great title! Multi-dimensional characters, interesting stories; several themes emerged. This was not a particularly uplifting book. I wish there had been more hope in the story lines, but it was dealing with imperfect humans working in the changing and weakening newspaper industr...