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Press Camille was interviewed by NPR's Liane Hansen on Weekend Edition Sunday on September 9, 2007. Listen here. There's a lovely interview with Camille in Jordan E. Rosenfeld's First Impressions column in Writer's Digest magazine (October 2007 issue). News Camille's new novel is tentatively entitled Petty Magic, and will be published by Shaye Areheart. More details to come! Praise "Superbly creepy, original and well-executed...a grandly successful experiment in fiction." "Swift, witty and endlessly amusing...Partly because of the pacing, partly because of the story, but mostly because DeAngelis makes the reader care terribly about Mary, and what happens to her, the novel turns out to be difficult, if not impossible, to put down." "On a sentence-by-sentence, word-by-word level, this is a gorgeously executed novel. Step back a bit and the structure is equally intricate and well-wrought, cutting back and forth between then and now and then-as-now. DeAngelis is delight to read, and it quickly becomes apparent that we're reading not science fiction, per se, but rather a gentle gothic." "DeAngelis is wonderfully inventive...She is gifted in description and pleasingly unpredictable in her plot...It's delightfully strange." "What tugs a reader into this story is the time-travel setting — a rambling old house that hasn't changed much in years. And the relationships are fascinating — among the grandmother (Mary), the granddaughter (Lucy) and her boyfriend (Gray). The U.S. government's Orwellian attitude toward science adds spice to this intriguing, unusual novel." "Compelling and horrific...Lucy's story of love and ambition will appeal not only to fans of gothic romance but also to book groups, whose discussions of bioethics, social responsibility, personal freedom, and the biological nature of memory will last into the wee hours." "Mary Modern is an eerie and haunting look at one family. It conjures up possibilities one rarely considers. You'll remember this novel and look forward to DeAngelis' next book." "This elegantly written work touches on issues that plague modern life, and though it gives you ample opportunity to suspend your disbelief, it ultimately provides an unexpected and satisfying payoff. Recommended for public libraries." "This imaginative near-future, genre-bending debut novel borrows its premise from the iconic work of a less modern Mary – Mary Shelley...DeAngelis combines a neogothic exploration of a moral-ethical morass with a quirky clone love story…frequently titillating." "Mary Modern has everything you look for in a book: smarts, style, and suspense. How often is it that you marvel at an author's literary skill while you feel that mad scramble to find out how it ends? It's a thrilling debut." "A strange, strangely beautiful, and beautifully accomplished novel. Science, history, personal identity, and literature go into the blender, and what comes out is a nearly perfect mix." "What an inventive and testing book: Mary Modern may be the strangest package of fictional illusions that I've encountered for a long time, but Camille DeAngelis has pulled off every trick with a confident, extravagant flourish. She is a writer/magician whose debut novel is learned, engrossing, incessantly surprising, and extraordinarily touching." Mary Modern has been nominated for the Book-of-the-Month Club's Stephen Crane First Fiction Award! |