Books by Carl Shuker and Complete Book Reviews
Carl Shuker, Author . Shoemaker & Hoard $16 (492p) ISBN 978-1-59376-065-6
Kiwinovelist Shuker's debut follows a set of gaijin—young international 20-somethings who have gravitated to ultrahip, fast-forward Tokyo—as one of their number goes missing. A young Wellington-born military historian researching the
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Carl Shuker, Author . Shoemaker & Hoard $15 (295p) ISBN 978-1-59376-123-3
Richard "Souse" Sauer, the 18-year-old antihero narrator of New Zealand writer Shuker's second novel (after Method Actors
) is on a violent behavior jag that would make American Psycho
's Patrick Bateman proud. Souse is a sensitive,...
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Carl Shuker. Counterpoint (PGW, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-61902-115-0
In the midst of the Arab Spring, Beirut is experiencing a chaotic flux of soldiers, martyrs, and security guards. New Zealand-born novelist Shuker (The Lazy Boys) places at its center Leon, a brooding Christian Lebanese filmmaker, and commences with
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Carl Shuker. Counterpoint, $25 (192p) ISBN 978-1-64009-249-5
Shuker (The Method Actors) grapples with responsibility in medicine in this brisk but middling novel. Exacting, brash general surgeon Elizabeth Taylor performs emergency surgery on Lisa, a mysteriously ill 20-something, at a public hospital in...
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