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Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “Elmet” by Fiona Mozley
Now and then a debut novel knocks your socks off. Without fuss or complexity, told in humble descriptive prose, you are from the first in...
OC Book Blog: “A Ladder to the Sky” by John Boyne
The Irish writer John Boyne is on a winning streak. Following the commercial success of "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas," he published a...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “Uncommon Cause: General George Lee Butler”
An uncommonly fascinating memoir of military life. By Randy Kraft We all assume we know something of military life. We’ve seen...
OC Book Blog: “The End of Days” by Jenny Erpenbeck
Too often the great works of other languages to do not come to the English-speaking reader. We miss out on a lot of great fiction and...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “A Sport and a Pastime” by James Salter
A sixties gem you may have missed. By Randy Kraft James Salter is what they call a writer’s writer. He is a master of clarity....