false 6659968 216284 217145 1593761317 9781593761318 36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172787386m/217145.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172787386s/217145.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217145.Radiant_Days 4.01 88 Radiant Days, FitzGerald's debut, follows the dissolving love triangle of a hapless American, a beautiful Hungarian junkie, and a young British journalist during the last days of the Balkan War. It's a comic tragedy that begins in dotcom San Francisco and travels through the tattered romanticism of expatriate Budapest, the sparkling Dalmatian coast, ending in the brutalized landscape of inland Croatia. Booklist says that FitzGerald has "flawlessly and astutely mirrored the ennui and confusion of a generation." Library Journal calls the book "a thoughtful if uncomfortable depiction of the spiritual bankruptcy of Americans." The New York Times says it is "an old story, made fresh."
[link:http://www.radiantdays.com]]]> 127254 4.01 88 36 2007 3 4 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 23 13:07:20 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 23 13:27:39 -0700 2007 From its opening at an expatriates' party in Budapest to its bittersweet ending, "Radiant Days" is an admirable first novel, immersing the reader in the pinballing life of a California man who is fleeing the end of a relationship and gets both more and less than he bargained for.
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