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Man In The Woods gets the Trifecta!

September 22, 2010

Scott Spencer delivers the goods in his new novel and receives STARRED reviews in Kirkus and Booklist and Publishers Weekly.

The Washington Post says:
“This is a book to savor and read aloud, a book that is variously wise, funny and heartbreaking…The outcome must not be revealed here, except to say that it is as powerful as everything else in the book… ‘MAN IN THE WOODS’ is one of the three best novels I've read this year… and if you pressed me, I'd put it at the top of the list."

Want to read Man in the Woods?
Send an email to librarylovefest at harpercollins dot come and we’ll send a copy your way – with our compliments!

- Virginia

Blog Talk Radio, Booklist, Jeffrey Ford, Kirkus, The Drowned Life, The Shadow Year

Jeffrey Ford book giveaway!

November 2, 2009

Jeffrey Ford, one of my favorite authors here at Harper, won two World Fantasy Awards at this past weekend’s World Fantasy Convention. The Shadow Year won for Best Novel and The Drowned Life won for Best Collection.

The Shadow Year is a terrific coming of age story set in Long island, NY in the 1970s. It’s quirky, edgy and humorous with just enough fantasy thrown in to keep you turning the pages (I’m not the audience for fantasy fiction and I absolutely loved this book.) The Shadow Year received a starred Kirkusreview (”Properly creepy, but from time to time deliciously funny and heart-breakingly poignant, too…this is not to be missed,”) and Booklist hailed it as “[s]urreal, unsettling, and more than a little weird. Ford has a rare gift for evoking mood with just a few well-chosen words and for creating living, breathing characters with only a few lines of dialogue.”

If you haven’t read Mr. Ford yet, do yourself a favor, start! In fact, send an email to me at librarylovefest dot harpercollins dot com and I’ll send you a copy of The Shadow Year. All I ask in return is a brief review of the book!

Check out my interview with Jeffrey Ford on Blog Talk Radio which aired February 2009.

Congratulations, Jeffrey Ford!

For more information, including a complete list of winning titles, please visit: http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/

-Virginia