John Wray Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

John Wray

A true product of its time, Berger's novel of self-liberation… is also one of the oddest works of fiction to win the Booker Prize. G. is a teenager when he's seduced by his aunt, and his fall from innocence is rendered even more jarring by Berger's impartial, omnipotent tone.

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John Wray

Is there any more literary subject than first love? I'd say not — and Ivan Turgenev, Russian literature's great romantic, would have agreed. First Love was his favorite of his own works, dearer to him than Fathers and Sons... It's achingly beautiful, magnificently sad.

John Wray

Who says one's first great love need be human? After a long-haired Alsatian named Tulip comes into his life, the arch, grouchy Ackerley is transformed before our eyes from a middle-aged London cynic into a poet of heartbreak.

John Wray

Dee... [is] if not officially a national treasure, then at the very least a natural resource... his restless, adventurous, at times reckless approach is nowhere more evident than in his latest roll of the dice: the taut, bare-bones, not entirely user-friendly “Sugar Street.”

John Wray

This inventive tale of love and loss is told entirely through the descriptions and photographs of a couple's estate. Whimsical as it may sound, it's an account of the perils of marriage that gives Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road a run for its money.

John Wray

Our young heroes live lives of quiet intoxication in a brackish part of Central Florida during the Great Recession...the author certainly seems to know the lay of the land.