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The incomparable Mark Sarvas delivers a thorough and insightful review of two recent novels that feature Sherlock Holmes as a character, Mitch Cullin’s A Slight Trick of the Mind and Michael Chabon’s The Final Solution.
[O]ne can’t help feel a particular stab of sympathy for Mitch Cullin, whose forthcoming novel A Slight Trick of the Mind (April 2005) which takes as its subject the declining years of Sherlock Holmes should have the grave misfortune of following into print The Final Solution, the latest offering from Pulitzer Prize winner and attention magnet Michael Chabon, [w]hose subject is the declining years of Sherlock Holmes. But as it turns out, Cullin doesn’t need our sympathy one bit he’s written the better book. He just needs our attention.
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Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.