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John Domini Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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John Domini is an author, translator and critic. Fiction, essays, reviews. Memoir ARCHEOLOGY OF A GOOD RAGÙ, 2021. Fiction praised by Salman Rushdie, Washington Post: “a new shriek for a new century."

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Book Cover for: Highway Trade, John Domini

Highway Trade

John Domini
John DominiJohn Domini

Today, an unexpected Throwback, a kind online comment about my HIGHWAY TRADE, from 1998. So here's one of the book's loveliest reviews, @RainTaxiReview, plus the single worst I've ever received, thank God in an obscure place-- @nytimesbooks. https://t.co/olhvf2E6pM

Paperback, 1998

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner), Bernardine Evaristo

Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)

Bernardine Evaristo
John DominiJohn Domini

@Greg_Gerke A number-- "deeper knowledge" is a goal widely shared. In the last 10 yrs, Jenny Erpenbeck's END OF DAYS (2012) & GO, WENT, GONE (2016), plus Bernardine Evaristo's GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER (2019). But will the password work in 700 years, like Dante's? Pound sets an unfair comparison.

Paperback, 2019

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Death of Che Guevara, Jay Cantor

The Death of Che Guevara

Jay Cantor
John DominiJohn Domini

@TheLuisPanini Okay, I’ll suggest just one more, unjustifiably overlooked: THE DEATH OF CHE GUEVARA, by Jay Cantor.

Paperback, 2005

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Black Robe

Brian Moore
John DominiJohn Domini

@davidcinema Can’t believe how I mangled the spelling of Pasolini. Apologies. BLACK ROBE grapples with questions of faith & morality beautifully, as did the Brian Moore novel it came from.

Paperback, 1997

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Dispatches

Michael Herr
John DominiJohn Domini

"The American hero myth is unique, as if Hollywood remade the Homeric ideal, & laced it with Wall Street capitalism & Biblical certainty." @bohare13x @electriclit, a rich & right-on catalog for #VeteransDay (tho I'd add DISPATCHES, Michael Herr). https://t.co/2mZgtoKcjo

Paperback, 1991

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Last Pomegranate Tree, Bachtyar Ali

The Last Pomegranate Tree

Bachtyar Ali
John DominiJohn Domini

@J_RomanceWriter A fine novel of the Kurds & their recent tragic history, THE LAST POMEGRANATE TREE, by Bachtyar Ali.

Paperback, 2023

$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Rule of the Bone: Novel

Russell Banks
John DominiJohn Domini

"The fact is the truth is a lot more interesting than anything I could make up & that's why I'm telling it in the first place." -- Russell Banks, RULE OF THE BONE. A ferocious imagination; rest in power. https://t.co/EcvjLv4cNV

Paperback, 2023

$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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The New Earth

Jess Row
John DominiJohn Domini

The New Earth is all about resurrection. If Row isn’t pulling a jumper back to safety, he’s reasserting the value of fiction about fiction ... The panorama that comes to life around [The Wilcoxes] feels like a masterpiece for our fractured time

Hardcover, 2023

$32.99$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Bitter Orange Tree, Jokha Alharthi

Bitter Orange Tree

Jokha Alharthi
John DominiJohn Domini

@ceciliaclyra Very difficult pick. Perhaps BITTER ORANGE TREE, Jokha Alharthi.

Paperback, 2023

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Weiss: Marat/Sade, Ian Hilton

Weiss: Marat/Sade

Ian Hilton
John DominiJohn Domini

Homage to the late, great Peter Brook: the opening of his brilliant MARAT/SADE (author, Peter Weiss), which w/ each passing day looks more like the hometown parade for the Fourth. Hope you have eight minutes: https://t.co/ewi5wg3uzc

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