Horror-meister, Stephen King calls George Pelecanos "perhaps the greatest living American crime writer." Pelecanos sets his crimes in the U.S. capital. And it's not the side of Washington that you see portrayed on TV with white marble monuments and movers and shakers. The "undisputed poet" of Washington's gritty side is what his peers call Pelecanos.
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To find a narrator as exuberant and original as Oskar Schell, the tambourine-playing 9-year-old hero of Jonathan Safran Foer's new novel, "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close," you have to go back to Alex Perchov, the boastful, warmhearted Ukrainian translator who so memorably mangled the English language in Foer's giddy 2002 debut, "Everything Is Illuminated."
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