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"  Best-selling author Jane Hamilton (The Book of Ruth, A Map of the World) breaks her characteristic somber storytelling mold with Laura Rider&amp;#039;s Masterpiece (Grand Central), a light-of-heart, kick-of-ass novel about a group of married Midwestern eccentrics acting out their lovelorn fantasies.  In Dirt (Seal Press), edited by Mindy Lewis (Life Inside), writers such as Ann Hood, Joyce Maynard, and Louise DeSalvo dish on their relationships with the humble work of vacuuming, closet organizing, bathroom scrubbing, and window washing.  Biographer Lilian Pizzichini&amp;#039;s The Blue Hour (Norton) delves into the turbulent life of Dominicaborn, Europegrafted Jean Rhys, whose groundbreaking 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea\u2014a prequel to Charlotte Bront\u00EB&amp;#039;s Jane Eyre that was published when Rhys was 76 years old\u2014made her a poster-fem for women writing in obscurity, dislocation, and fragile circumstances. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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