Popular for many reasons, from its well-wrought prose to its
riveting telling of history to its inside look at a fascinating Viennese
family, Edmund de Waal’s The Hare With Amber Eyes
gains yet another asset with this recent illustrated edition. Starting
with a lineup of the netsuke collection de Waal inherited and which
was the impetus for this book, the volume features photos of the places,
people, and objets d’art that figure in the story. The power of art is
admirably on display here, in both words and images. Available in
hardcover, $15.98.
Where do great ideas come from? For some 60 years, many came from
Bell Labs. The research facility nurtured a wide range of applied and
pure scientists in disciplines ranging from chemistry to physics to
engineering, and earned some seven Nobel prizes along the way. Jon
Gertner tells the riveting story behind the development of this
remarkable place in The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation.
His narrative also delves into the science and the hybridization of
ideas and profiles the personalities involved. Available in hardcover,
$7.98.
Short-listed for the Booker Prize for Fiction,
Swimming Home,
a novel by the poet and playwright Deborah Levy, belongs to the small
and intriguing sub-genre of fiction about a stranger insinuating
herself into a family. In this case the intruder is Kitty French. First
glimpsed as a body floating in a pool, she attaches herself to two
couples vacationing near Nice. What does she want from them? Or is it
only one person—Joe, a London poet—she’s interested in? Kitty is
something of a poet herself, so is her attention to Joe a career move
rather than a romantic one? And why does Joe’s wife seem to encourage
it? Levy skillfully keeps readers and characters off balance as the
relationships shift and blur. Available in paperback, $6.98.
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