You want to find a book to read, but who has 30 seconds to peruse those back-of-the-cover blurbs? Not you! You need a synopsis now, this minute, preferably yesterday. Well, here you are: four-word descriptions of a few great titles. Go!
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
United, partitioned, ravaged, renewed.
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Nobody gets a mulligan.
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Satan moves to Moscow.
On Writing by Stephen King
Sit down. Write. Repeat.
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Everything’s funnier Down Under.
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