FACTORY MAN — In a Class with SEABISCUIT
Already having declared her love for Beth Macy’s nonfiction debut, Factory Man, (Hachette/Little, Brown, 7/15), in her summer preview, NYT‘s daily reviewer, Janet Maslin, gave it a full review just before the holiday.
Her opinion is not dimmed. Saying this book, subtitled, How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local — And Helped Save An American Town, is “in a class with other runaway debuts like Laura Hillenbrand’s Seabiscuit and Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers … Ms. Macy writes so vigorously that she hooks you instantly. You won’t be putting this book down.”
She also notes that, since the book is published by Hachette, it is another victim of the Amazon/Hachette battle and will not be available for purchase on Amazon until pub date or on Kindle, but ” it’s worth the trouble to read what will be one of the best, and surely most talked about, books of 2014.”