William Palmer

• Oct-2021
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• Apr-2021
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• Sep-2019
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Competition judge Anne Barngrover says "I was struck from the first sentence by the crystalline narrative voice -- sometimes uncanny, sometimes weird, but always precise, unflinching, and painfully self-aware -- and the experimentatio...

• Aug-2018
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In the spring of 2018 at the age of eighty-one, the author attacked a stack of manuscripts that had sat on various shelves for over fifty years. Three short novels, some stories, and many fragments made a dusty pile many inches high. Privateer, the ...

• Jan-2017
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• Jun-2013
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Working as a news photographer in 30s Berlin, Walther Klinger becomes - by a vicious twist of fate - a society photographer for the new aristocracy of the Nazi party. Walther's complicity makes him increasingly cynical and guilty, so that - for him -...

• Apr-2013
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Don Giovanni di Tenario, lives on in the memory of his servant Leporello. In Leporello's tale, the Don escapes his summons to Hell and master and servant travel through the courts and casinos, lodging houses and brothels of eighteenth-century Europe....

• Jan-2013
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One day in June 1931 the body of a young girl was found on a lonely beach in Long Island, New York. She was bruised and there were some signs that she had been raped. It was thought that she had been murdered. She was soon identified as Starr Faithfu...

• Jun-2009
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Four Last Things is a collection of short stories, a brilliant collection of short stories. There is nothing of the occasional here, nothing of the secondary, these short fictions rank not just with William Palmer's own novels but with the best work ...

• Sep-2005
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• Jun-2004
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At once a mystery of detection, a family history, and a rite of passage, Blood and Village traces the lives of the authors parents from the closing years of the 19th century in a small South German town to the New York neighborhoods where they raised...

• 1997
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• Jan-1990
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The Good Republic is an unnamed Baltic state. Its geography is important, sandwiched, for a hellish part of the twentieth-century, between two totalitarian behemoths, Nazi Germany and Communist Russia. The central character of the novel is Jacob Balt...