![]() ![]() I wish I could say she also deserves kudos for writing a spectacular work of fiction, but to tell you the truth, it's just - at best - so-so. Kingsolver deserves kudos, if only because she seems to be single-handedly keeping consumer zest alive for the literary novel. ![]() The Lacuna is the only literary novel caught in the cross hairs of this sales skirmish. Almost all of the blockbuster books in question are works of genre fiction - suspense and horror stories by the likes of James Patterson, Stephen King, Dean Koontz and John Grisham. Wal-Mart, Amazon and Target are engaged in a price war against booksellers over the hot late fall/early winter releases. Interest in it is unusually fierce for a work of literary fiction. The Lacuna is Barbara Kingsolver's first new novel in nine years. Barbara Kingsolver is an author, a poet and the creator of the Bellwether Prize for "literature of social change." ![]()
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