BOOK REVIEWS: GETTIN' PAID

THE PALE KING by David Foster Wallace.  Reviewed by Angela Leroux-Lindsey

At almost 600 pages, Wallace's incomplete final novel remains tantalizing, constantly hinting at what else there might also have been.

LIFE AND A HALF by Sony Lab'ou Tansi.  Translation by Alison Dundy.

Reviewed by Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra

The first English translation of Lab'ou Tansi's frenzied, visionary satire of political life in the both Congolese republics captures . . . whatever, but the point is that this is a very important African novel appearing in a very effective first English translation.

THE LAST WEREWOLF by Glen Duncan.  Reviewed by Daniel Lukes

This unsung British author makes a big push for Stateside success with this werewolf epic, a Lolita-esque road trip story and musical featuring the voices of Mia Farrow and Jeff Bridges--no, wait, that's The Last Unicorn (1982).  This is definitely a compelling, if very violent and at times both nihilistic and sentimental exercise in fiction that is both literary and generic, though--that much is accurate.

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