As a novelist and National Book Award winner, Eddie is successful; as a non-fiction writer he stirs up trouble. As a lover and a searcher, he lacks the bones to get the job done. Yet he remains intensely, humanly likeable, a good man in the midst of something that he knows is evil but is powerless to fix.
Dickensian in length, scope, and the wondrous names and descriptions of its characters, Palace Council may just be, if not the, certainly A Great American Novel.
Short story writer and essayist Lisa Solod Warren has been published in a wide variety of literary journals, magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. She is the editor of Desire: Women Write About Wanting (Seal Press, 2007). She blogs at opensalon.com and redroom.com. …
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Palace Council
“Carter twists plotlines like pretzels while wryly skewering America’s wealthy intellectual elite.” —PeopleJohn Grisham called Stephen L. Carter’s first novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park, “beautifully ...
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